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Stories that span genres, languages and filmmaking techniques are among the contenders for a nomination for best Oscars short this year.

Director Victoria Warmerdam‘s I’m Not a Robot opens with a familiar experience of a person attempting to successfully respond to a captcha prompt in order to access a website. However, after multiple failed tries, the woman, named Lara, discovers that she is indeed a bot.

“At first it’s such a funny thought, like, ‘What if I’m actually a robot and I find out through a captcha,’ but when I really started writing the script and thinking about it, it’s about the patriarchy and feminism and what if you’re not, in a way, in control of your own body,” Warmerdam said during a taping of THR Presents, powered by Vision Media. “I think that’s, especially now, unfortunately, still such an important topic to talk about.

The Equalizer is multiplying. The CBS procedural, which stars Queen Latifah as former CIA operative Robyn McCall, will introduce a pair of new characters later this season that could potentially lead their own spinoff series, our sister site Deadline reports.

One character, an older male, is reportedly a former CIA operative. The other character, a younger female, is a martial artist with a vast knowledge of weapons and criminology — and a “secret origin story.”

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Updated on Wednesday, November 6 to include newly announced audience winners.

As its annual film festival winds down this weekend, the Savannah College of Art and Design (Scad) announced the award winners for the 27th annual Scad Savannah Film Festival. The event, which has become a key stop on the busy regional festival circuit leading up to the Academy Awards, this year screened 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, 69 short films, and 10 world premieres and six U.S. premieres.

Out of over 2,335 submissions, nineteen awards were announced from the 105 films chosen to compete in competition categories, which included Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Professional Shorts, Animated Shorts, Documentary Shorts, Student Shorts, Shorts Spotlight, Global Shorts Forum, and the Savff Lgbtqia+ Short Film Competition presented by Amazon MGM Studios.

Taking top honors in the competition feature section include a pair of remarkable films still looking for distribution, including Michael Schwartz and...

American Cinematheque’s Proof Film Festival announced the Filmmaker Award winners at their second annual festival in Culver City on Sunday.

This year’s festival featured 46 official short film selections. Each one had to convey a proof of concept of how the filmmakers would develop their short into a full-length feature or series.

Liz Sargent’s “Take Me Home” took home the Grand Jury Award. Her short film follows two sisters, Anna and Emily, as they share a rocky reunion after their mother’s passing. The two navigate Anna’s cognitive disability as they rebuild their relationship. Along with the award, Sargent also received a $60,000 camera package, courtesy of Panavision, to assist her with fleshing out a larger project from their proof-of-concept submission.

Giselle Bonilla’s “The Musical” won the Audience Choice Award. In the short, Doug Lebowitz, a middle school theater director, decides to take down his ex-girlfriend’s...

The players integral to Avengers: Endgame plan to change the game in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Robert Downey Jr. and the Russo brothers (Joe and Anthony Russo) rejoined to make the next two Avengers sequels, Doomsday and Secret Wars. A new report confirms the huge paydays the trio received to return to the MCU for the first time since 2019.

According to Variety, Marvel Studios had to shell out a fortune to get the gang back together for the fifth and sixth Avengers movies. The Russos, who also helmed Infinity War and multiple Captain America films, will be paid $80 million to helm Doomsday and Secret Wars. Their deal doesn't include back-end compensation but features performance escalators if the next two sequels reach the $750 million and $1 billion threshold. As for Downey Jr., he is slated to make "significantly more" than the duo to portray the villainous Doctor Doom in both superhero blockbusters.

The Frameline Film Festival has announced the winners from its 2024 program.

The top honors went to Luke Gilford’s “National Anthem,” which took home the Outstanding First Feature Award, and Chloé Barreau’s “Fragments of a Life Loved,” which won Outstanding Documentary Feature.

Frameline, the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ film festival, ran from June 19–29, with 120 screenings, programs and events held in theaters across the Bay Area, including the Herbst Theatre and Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.

Highlights of the festival included the Castro Theatre’s first-ever celebration of Juneteenth — a block party that featured the official re-lighting of the venue’s iconic neon blade sign and marquee, performances from the all-Black drag collective and a special outdoor screening of “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero.”

Other highlights included a special 30th anniversary screening of the 4K restoration of “Go Fish,” attended by Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner, the...

Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers from Pretty Little Liars: Summer School episodes 1 through 8.

"Pretty Little Liars: Summer School" offers a bright summer slasher vibe with familiar characters and a new villain. Returning characters face new challenges as they navigate summer school and encounter the mysterious "Bloody Rose." The Max show's soundtrack includes popular songs like "School's Out" by Alice Cooper and "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama.

Pretty Little Liars: Summer School is a stark contrast to Original Sin, with brighter tones, sunny vibes, and, of course, several pop hits that are perfect for summer break. The slasher and horror elements are still present (proven by the haunting instrumental additions to the show's score) as the five teenagers recover from their experience with "A," aka Archie Waters, and try to move on. However, a new villain named "Bloody Rose" throws a wrench into the characters' plans in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School.

Sony Pictures Classics’ Dylan Leiner along with FilmNation’s Stefan Zorich and Paramount’s Fabrizio Carrer were among the top film executives and companies who participated in the 13th NY Film & Entertainment Soccer Tournament for charity hosted at the Tribeca Festival.

The sun-drenched event gathered 39 teams, along with more than 60 filmmakers from the Tribeca Festival, and hundreds of spectators at Brooklyn Bridge Park overlooking downtown Manhattan.

The annual 5 v 5 charity soccer tournament, co-organized by Leiner and Jeffrey Saunders, will donate funds to the two organizations reigning atop the Soccer-4-Good Division, the big winner being Upwardly Global – which helps immigrants and refugees get back to work in their chosen fields; and Grassroot soccer, an organization that leverages the power of soccer to equip young people with life-saving information, services and mentorship.

Some of the high-profile talent in attendance included Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”) who presented his short film “Idiomatic” at...

The second David Bowie World Fan Convention hit New York in June, featuring some of David Bowie’s closest collaborators in music, film, and fashion. Vocalist, songwriter, model, and actor Ava Cherry sang on some of Bowie’s most transformative records, and changed his outlook on music, fashion, and nightlife. From 1974 to 1978, Cherry was one-third of Bowie’s vocal backing trio, appearing onstage, in the studio, and on all TV appearances. Cherry and Bowie’s relationship was even closer than that, beginning as lovers, and enduring as friends.

According to the autobiography All That Glitters, written by Cherry and Lisa Torem, Ava was raised in Chicago, taking a job at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion when she was 17 years old, before moving to New York and working at the nightclub Genesis. This is where she met Bowie, who asked her to provide backing vocals on an upcoming tour in Japan.

Cupcakke has returned with her first solo single since last July, a biting track called “Lawd Jesus.” On the song, the rapper discusses shedding old ways for a new outlook as she continues to succeed, but her past seems to try to continue to hold her down.

“Fuck all my old friends, I’m not tryna make amends,” she raps, with a “Lawd Jesus” refrain repeated during the chorus. “I said, ‘Mama, chill, we gonna win’/Money keep comin’ in/I’m tryna change from back then.”

Cupcakke released two...

“I have so many crazy stories from that tour that half of them are blocked out from my memory,” Banoffee says over the phone from Melbourne. She’s recalling her stint as a member of Charli Xcx’s backing band in 2018, when the British pop artist was opening for Taylor Swift’s Reputation Tour – a kind of synth-pop Russian-doll situation in which Banoffee found herself performing for as many as 75,000 fans a night. “I’d like to think I’ve compartmentalized it for my own sanity,” she adds. “Once you’ve seen one sports stadium,...

Rising indie-pop artist Banoffee’s debut album is out in February, and she’s released a new single from the LP, “Count on You.”

The music video features the Australian artist sparring with herself and others at a fencing camp (a la The Parent Trap), as she sings about comforting someone in the midst of fighting their own inner demons: “I’ll sit here ’til the lights go down/You can fall asleep/I’ll sit here till the breaks go on/In your head and body.”

“This video aims...

[This story contains spoilers through episode four of HBO's Sharp Objects.]

There has been plenty of Twitter chatter about whether Sharp Objects' protagonist, journalist Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), is any good at her reporting job. She doesn't take notes, she gets too close to her sources, she writes story drafts in Gmail like a psycho. But Chris Messina, who plays a big-city detective stationed in the small town of Wind Gap, Miss., to investigate the murder of two teen girls, has wondered the same thing about his character.

In the fourth episode of the limited series, "Ripe,"...