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“Dahomey,” “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane” are among the 20 nonfiction films that have made the shortlist for the International Documentary Association’s 2024 IDA Documentary Awards, the IDA announced on Thursday morning.

The shortlisted features come from 21 different countries and include works by Mati Diop (“Dahomey”), Raoul Peck (“Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”). The IDA’s feature shortlist is typically idiosyncratic in that it doesn’t include several of the most acclaimed and highest-profile nonfiction films of the year, including “Will & Harper,” “Daughters,” “Piece by Piece,” “Mountain Queen” and “Union.”

Of the 20 films on the IDA shortlist, eight also appeared on the Doc NYC list of likely awards titles: “Black Box Diaries,” “Dahomey,” “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” “No Other Land,” Queendom,” “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and “Sugarcane.”

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Ever since the Elbaph arc started in One Piece manga, the one Straw Hat Pirate who has entered the limelight is Usopp, the sniper of the crew. For many years fans have been waiting for Eiichiro Oda to reveal Usopp’s connection with Elbaph and now that the arc has finally started, it will soon explain what his role is in the Elbaph storyline.

Usopp | Credit: Toei Animation

While the arc has just started, fans have already tried to guess Usopp’s role in Elbaph and how his character will grow in the series. Some believe that Usopp will get a power-up that will bring him close to the level of the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates, while others believe that he will earn the title of “Brave Warrior of the Sea” that he has been craving since the beginning of the journey.

Although nothing has been confirmed as of yet,...

While dishing on the “complicated” process of executing the visual effects for the Prime Video series, Stephan Fleet tells IndieWire that everything he’s done so far “is unprecedented.”

With Season 4 of “The Boys,” the hit Prime Video series didn’t disappoint — especially when it comes to delivering big, bold, and wild moments that left the internet and fans alike buzzing. And considering that creator Eric Kripke’s adaptation of the anti-superhero comic book series has featured a boat crashing through a whale, an exploding penis and all the scandalous events of “Herogasm,” that’s a pretty tall order.

“I remember, in fact, when they invited me into the writers’ room for Season 2. They were like, ‘What do you think about a boat crashing into a whale?’ And I was like, ‘That sounds complicated and expensive.’ And they were like, ‘Great.’ Then we did it,” Emmy-nominated VFX supervisor Stephan Fleet told IndieWire.

The Boys Season 4 star Laz Alonso has already hinted at the surging level of violence and gore in the new season. Fans are now witnessing it in the 5 episodes that Prime Video has dropped until now. Alonso recalled one disgusting scene in Season 4 that made him break character and scream out loud.

Laz Alonso in a still from The Boys | Amazon Prime Video.

While he didn’t reveal the exact scene, fans may have already found a few scenes in the ongoing season that would match Alonso’s description. Alonso’s reaction was backed by Jack Quaid, who also found a scene to be too much for him.

Laz Alonso Had Already Warned Audiences That The Boys S4 Was The Most Disgusting Yet Laz Alonso in a still from The Boys Season 4 | Amazon Prime Video

After watching five episodes of The Boys Season 4 on Prime Video, fans wish they could...

Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto and Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece are arguably two of the most popular shonen series of this generation. Both series have dominated the manga sales for their epic runs and have been part of the Big Three, and their anime adaptations have plastered every fan of the series to their screens. The longevity of both series speaks volumes to their popularity as the shows attract different generations of fans year after year.

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Both series featured hundreds of episodes with similar themes of friendship, the pursuit of one’s dreams, and perseverance, leaving a lasting impact on pop culture. However, Kishimoto-san had to take an alternative route and used Oda-Sensei’s light-hearted theme to his advantage to keep his series popular in the anime and manga community.

Masashi Kishimoto Had a Dark Idea To Rival Oda-Sensei’s One Piece’s Popularity

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A major arrival on Egghead Island will change the arc, leaving fans guessing who it could be. The Buster Call is initiated and soldiers mention an escaped ship and a powerful person or group approaching. Possible options include Blackbeard and his crew, the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, or the Revolutionary Army.

Warning! Contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter #1105!The latest chapter of One Piece hinted at a major imminent arrival on Egghead Island that could change the course of the arc. This has left fans scrambling for hints as to who these new characters may be and if they've appeared in the series before. Of course, given how interconnected the many parts of Eiichiro Oda's manga are, it is very likely to be a group that readers have seen before.

At the end of chapter #1105, a Buster Call is officially initiated against Egghead Island. In all the chaos that ensues,...

Elizabeth Dennehy reflects on the stark differences between filming Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard season 3. Dennehy discusses the overwhelming technology and stunning set of Picard compared to her time on Tng. Despite her character's apparent death, Dennehy would love to return as Admiral Shelby, as Star Trek characters have come back from the dead before.

Elizabeth Dennehy reflects on the stark differences between filming Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Picard season 3. Dennehy appeared as Lt. Commander Elizabeth Shelby in Tng's "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter, which is often regarded as one of the show's best stories. As a determined up-and-coming expert on the Borg, Shelby arrived on the USS Enterprise-d to help investigate a potential Borg attack. Shelby was present for the assimilation of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and there was speculation that she could become the new First Officer of the Enterprise if Picard didn't return.

The following contains spoilers for the One Piece manga by Eiichiro Oda, available in English via Viz Media.

In One Piece, the Marines are the main military force of the World Government, and within the organization, there is no higher-ranking position than Fleet Admiral. Following Sengoku's resignation after the Summit War, Akainu becomes the new Fleet Admiral, officially heralding him as the Marines' greatest weapon.

Fleet Admiral Akainu is a highly-skilled Haki user who is already confirmed to possess Observation Haki and advanced Armament Haki; considering his staunch commitment to Absolute Justice, it's entirely possible that he also wields Conqueror's Haki. In addition to this, he also wields the Magma-Magma Fruit, which is said to be the most offensively-potent Logia-type Devil Fruit in One Piece. However, there are still numerous Devil Fruits that could give the Fleet Admiral a run for his money.

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High Water Festival has revealed the lineup for its 2024 installment, including headliners Noah Kahan, Hozier, and The Flaming Lips at the top of the bill. The fest returns to Riverfront Park in North Charleston, South Carolina on April 20th and 21st.

Notably, The Flaming Lips’ High Water set will be a complete performance of their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Alongside event curators Shovels & Rope, other confirmed acts include Fleet Foxes, Grace Potter, Courtney Barnett, The Walkmen, Houndmouth, The Dip, Leyla McCalla, Olivia Jean, Al Olender, The Wallflowers, Briston Maroney, The Linda Lindas, Kevin Morby, The Heavy Heavy, Cut Worms, and Babe Club.

One-day and two-day passes to High Water Festival 2024 are available in General Admission, Ga+, VIP, and Platinum packages. Tickets open to the public on Thursday, October 26th at 12:00 p.m. Et via the festival website.

Earlier this month, Noah Kahan tapped Kacey Musgraves for a...

Starbuck potentially being a Cylon explains her knowledge of "All Along the Watchtower" and her surprise resurrection, adding depth to her character. The theory that Starbuck is half-Cylon would provide a more secular interpretation of Battlestar Galactica's religious conflict and align with viewers who wanted a less religious finale. While it was never intended for Starbuck to be half-Cylon, the theory is compelling and adds to her role as the Fleet's Guardian Angel, bringing the Colonists and Cylons together in the end.

A Battlestar Galactica theory that Starbuck (Katee Sackhoff) was actually a Cylon makes sense of some of the BSG finale's more contentious moments. As Ronald D. Moore's revival of the classic Glen A. Larson show reached its endgame, it revealed that some of the characters believed to be Colonists were actually the Final Five Cylons. This revelation was key to Battlestar Galactica's final season,...

One of the many oddities of "The Boys" is the way that any character, no matter how terrible, suddenly transforms into an audience surrogate the moment they're trapped in the room with Homelander. A-Train is a selfish, murdering jerk, for instance, but it's hard not to relate to him as Homelander starts making fun of his weight and there's nothing A-Train can do about it. Ashley is a power-hungry corporate stooge, but when she develops a hair-yanking habit from the sheer stress of working with Homelander, we have no trouble understanding why. When Homelander shatters the ear-drums of an innocent, Daredevil-inspired supe, Ashley's horrified expression perfectly matches how we feel.

Such is the case with Chase Crawford's The Deep, a character who could've been a main villain in any other show. Introduced as a rapist and further characterized as a shallow loser with an unsettling fish fetish, Deep...

Stephan Fleet, producer and VFX supervisor for The Boys, has mocked Marvel’s controversial use of AI technology to produce the opening title sequence for the Secret Invasion series. Loosely based on the Marvel comic book arc of the same name, Secret Invasion recently made its streaming debut on Disney+. However, shortly after episode 1’s release, director Ali Selim confirmed that artificial intelligence was used to create the images featured in the show’s titles, a move that has gone on to generate significant backlash.

Now, Fleet has weighed into the developing controversy, taking to Twitter to offer his own tongue-in-cheek response to Marvel’s divisive use of the emerging technology. Check it out below:

Not to toot my own horn but as the *cough* #1 superhero show, I was way ahead of the curve in designing photo-realistic VFX using AI #TheBoys pic.twitter.com/709gxWP24D — Stephan Fleet...

The Boys cast members Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso and Jensen Ackles recently gave fans new insight into the violent and visceral visual effects featured in the Prime Video superhero satire's third season.

Urban, Quaid, Alonso and Ackles appeared alongside visual effects supervisor Stephan Fleet in a VFX breakdown video shared by The Boys' official Twitter account. Among the notable behind-the-scenes secrets shared in the video is the process of bringing Billy Butcher's laser vision to life, with Urban recalling how he would "strike a pose" on set that Fleet and his team would then augment with CGI. Fleet also devotes a considerable amount of his screentime to detailing how The Boys Season 3's pixel-powered gore was achieved, describing the scene in which The Deep (Chase Crawford) eats a live octopus as "probably singlehandedly the hardest thing" the show's visual effects artists had to work on.

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“It’s super surreal,” says The Boys showrunner Erik Kripke of Barack Obama revealing he’s a big fan of the lurid Amazon superhero series.

Joined by fellow executive producer Rebecca Sonnenshine, supersuits designer Laura Jean Shannon and VFX supervisor Stephan Fleet, Kripke was talking ex-presidents and more during Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event.

“I mean look, we make this thing kind of in our little box and we’re just trying to make it as good as we can and try to say something of something that we think is going on in the world,” he added about the July 2019-premiering show based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s extremely raw comic series. “I’m just grateful that people respond to it and that someone like Obama responds to it, that’s crazy.”

Crazy must recognize crazy as the wild ride of the second season of The...