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Omar Sy on Lupin Season 4 and Louvre Heist Reaction
Omar Sy discusses Lupin Season 4, his stunned reaction to the Louvre heist, and France's social divides.
TIME · 2m

Ben Affleck's AI expertise impresses the internet
The actor sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix for a reported $587 million and has gone viral demonstrating deep technical knowledge.
TechCrunch · 2m

George Jaques: Sunny Dancer Director
British filmmaker George Jaques releases 'Sunny Dancer' after decade-long career leap.
Variety · 1m

GoPro's cinema camera with swappable lenses
The Mission 1 Pro ILS trades waterproofing for interchangeable Micro Four Thirds lenses, targeting filmmakers instead of action sports enthusiasts.
WIRED · 3m

AI Odyssey shows genAI isn't ready for Hollywood
A $100,000 AI-generated film contest entry proves artificial intelligence still can't match human filmmaking.
Digital Camera World · 1m

John Wilson's concrete obsession becomes a feature film
The documentary filmmaker turns a cracked foundation into a sprawling meditation on cycles, Hallmark movies, and why concrete matters.
Rolling Stone · 3m

John Wilson's concrete doc is barely about concrete
The filmmaker behind 'How To With John Wilson' turns a simple material into a meditation on connection and curiosity.
TIME · 1m

Zach Cregger's horror secret? Years of comedy training
The Barbarian and Weapons director reveals how sketch comedy became his horror bootcamp and what's next after Resident Evil.
Men's Health · 3m
Tom Cruise ran his life like a CEO from the start
The actor mapped out his filmmaking dreams as a teenager and never stopped working toward them.
Business Insider · 1m

A 'hood film with no violence in it
Serville Poblete set his coming-of-age drama in a Toronto housing complex and left out everything you expect.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Vimeo puts $300,000 behind five new filmmakers
Vimeo's short film grant doubles its pot, and five emerging directors split the money plus mentorship.
Variety · 1m

He spent 14 years on YouTube to reach TIFF
Mark Vins built a 22 million subscriber wildlife channel as the long road to one feature film.
Variety · 1m

The Proud Boys next door
A Black filmmaker spent years inside the Proud Boys, and what he found was uncomfortably ordinary.
Mother Jones · 4m

Atomos brings a brighter 7-inch monitor to IBC
Two new Atomos monitors landed at IBC 2026, and the one most shooters will care about costs $499.
Digital Camera World · 1m

Chris Rock asked PTA for notes, not applause
At the Toronto premiere of Misty Green, Chris Rock explained why he handed his directorial cut to Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Seth Rogen's best advice: less semen, more emotion
The kid who wrote Superbad at 13 built a career of 40-plus movies, and the best note he ever got was four words long.
Variety · 1m

Seth Rogen's Hollywood secret: luck
At TIFF, Seth Rogen admitted the thing most success stories leave out, and named the bar where it all started.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Shooting 'Angh' in the dark, at sea, off grid
A cinematographer heading to TIFF for the Variety Artisan Award, reached between a Baltic crossing and a Polish port.
Variety · 1m

An action camera that thinks it's a cinema camera
A GoPro Hero4 owner came back to action cameras after a decade and found a pocket production suite instead of a toy.
Digital Camera World · 2m
Markiplier funded his own $50 million movie
A YouTuber with 40 million subscribers put his own money into a film and proved creators don't have to hand Hollywood the keys.
Business Insider · 1m

Blade fell apart, so Ali built his own fight
A Marvel collapse left Mahershala Ali trained up with nowhere to punch, until the director he lost came back with a new film.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Seth Rogen's most personal film isn't his own
Lauren Miller Rogen wrote a comedy about deciding not to have kids, and put her marriage on screen doing it.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Zack Snyder Shot His Passion Project Himself
The blockbuster director traded green screens for a sweat-soaked van in the Colombian jungle, camera on his own shoulder.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m

Stop waiting for permission to make your thing
Caleb Hearon and Zooey Deschanel told TIFF creators how to cross from a feed to a feature without getting boxed in.
Mashable · 1m

The stuntman who became a director
Scott Waugh spent 18 years falling off things, then turned that instinct into a directing career built on set pieces.
Variety · 1m · 5 views