movies

  1. hardusb

    Looking for 1–2 beta testers for a self-built TV & Movie tracker (100% free / personal project)

    Hey everyone, After the media tracker I used for years announced it was shutting down, I decided to "vibe-code" my own replacement. It’s still a work in progress, but it’s officially in a usable state! I'm looking for 1 or 2 volunteers to take it for a spin and give me some honest feedback. A...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Government holding back R600 million to R1 billion in rebates to film industry

    Government holding back R600 million to R1 billion in rebates to film industry South Africa’s once-thriving film industry says it’s on the verge of collapse because the government has withheld financial support for the past two years, leaving thousands of actors, producers, writers and support...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Paramount making a Call of Duty movie

    Paramount making a Call of Duty movie Paramount Skydance Corp. has struck a deal with Microsoft Corp.’s Activision video game unit to develop and produce a live-action film based on the Call of Duty franchise, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “We’re approaching this film with the...
  5. OnlyOneKenobi

    What was the last physical disc based media you bought?

    With all types of entertainment being largely digital downloads or streaming these days, as well as the closure of most brick-and-mortar stores such as Top CD, Musica, Look and Listen, it seems like physical discs have gone the way of the Dodo. I think the last Blu-Ray I bought was in 2016 or...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Ster-Kinekor reduces retrenchments and cinema closures

    Ster-Kinekor reduces retrenchments and cinema closures Ster-Kinekor completed its Section 189 and restructuring processes at the end of May, and it laid off far fewer staff members than it had initially anticipated. It has also reduced the number of cinemas destined for closure from nine...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Ster-Kinekor has a bright future in SA — CEO

    Ster-Kinekor has a bright future in SA — CEO Ster-Kinekor CEO Mark Sardi believes cinema has a bright future in South Africa despite headwinds like the popularity of streaming services, load-shedding, and the effect of the Hollywood actor's strike. In an interview with 702, Sardi explained...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Netflix publishes full viewership numbers on all titles for first time ever

    Netflix publishes full viewership numbers on all titles for first time ever Netflix Inc. is ready to tell the world how many people watch its shows. On Tuesday, the company released global midyear viewer data for every title on its service, the first of what Netflix said will be regular...
  9. Hanno Labuschagne

    South Africa's movie ticket prices have doubled since 2014

    South Africa's movie ticket prices have doubled since 2014 South Africa's movie ticket prices have just about doubled since 2014, an analysis by MyBroadband has revealed. In the past few years, movie theatre attendance has declined amid the proliferation of straight-to-streaming movies.
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    Barbie and Oppenheimer movies take box office to four-year high

    Barbie and Oppenheimer movies take box office to four-year high Cinemas finally have something to celebrate. Barbie, a comedy about the famous fashion doll, and Oppenheimer, a biography of the inventor of the atomic bomb, brought out movie fans in droves, helping box office revenue this...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    Hollywood actors go on strike over video streaming service payments and potential for studios to create AI "clones"

    Hollywood actors go on strike over video streaming service payments and potential for studios to create AI "clones" For the first time in six decades, Hollywood writers and actors are on strike at the same time — a cataclysm for hundreds of thousands of film and TV workers already idled by the...
  12. LazyLion

    How Harrison Ford's Blade Runner Confession Changes 41 Years Of Debate

    Source: https://screenrant.com/blade-runner-movie-rick-deckard-replicant-confirmed-story-changes/
  13. OnlyOneKenobi

    Dumbest scenes in movies & series (may contain spoilers)

    Recently, having watched FUBAR on Netflix, there's a scene where the heroes are locked inside a secure bunker where the locks are controlled by an old pre-Y2K 386 computer. They work out a plan based on the fact that the old computer is supposed to glitch out when the PC, which thinks it's still...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Disney+ cutting costs by dropping some movies and series after subscriber decline

    Disney+ cutting costs by dropping some movies and series after subscriber decline Walt Disney Co. shares fell in extended trading after the company posted a drop in subscribers to its namesake streaming service and predicted a wider loss in that business this quarter. The loss from streaming...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Movies and series written by AI are inevitable — Major TV execs

    Movies and series written by AI are inevitable — Major TV execs Executives from Paramount Global, Fox Corp. and other entertainment companies said it’s inevitable that films and TV shows will be written using artificial intelligence. “This is going to change the world,” said Todd Lieberman, a...
  16. Hanno Labuschagne

    Hollywood movie and TV show writers striking over payments by streaming service companies

    Hollywood movie and TV show writers striking over payments by streaming service companies The film and TV writers strike, which began Tuesday, could be just the start of a long summer of labour troubles in Hollywood. Negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion...
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  17. OnlyOneKenobi

    New Star Wars movies announced

    James Mangold and Dave Filoni have been announced as directors of new “Star Wars” films. They will join Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy who had previously been announced. Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy announced a new ‘timeline’ for “Star Wars” projects spanning nine different eras. Mangold’s film will...
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Top Gun: Maverick and Doctor Strange 2 draw South Africans back to the cinemas

    Top Gun: Maverick and Doctor Strange 2 draw South Africans back to the cinemas Cinemas have taken a pummeling over the last two years, but blockbuster films like Top Gun: Maverick and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are making South Africans return to the big screen in droves. The...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Ster-Kinekor's business rescue plan gets the all clear

    Ster-Kinekor's business rescue plan gets the all clear Ster-Kinekor Theatres' (SKT's) business rescue practitioner (BRP) Stefan Smyth has announced that the company's creditors and shareholders have approved and adopted a business rescue plan that will see it get a R250-million senior debt...
  20. J

    How much it will cost to go to Ster-Kinekor or Nu Metro during stage 2 lockdown

    How much it will cost to go to Ster-Kinekor or Nu Metro during stage 2 lockdown South Africans can go to the movies again under level 2 lockdown, but they could pay close to R200 for their ticket and food. Nu Metro and Ster-Kinekor will not be reopening all of their cinema complexes, but a...
  21. J

    YouTube adds full-length movies to its website

    YouTube adds full-length movies to its website YouTube has added around 100 full-length Hollywood movies to its website, AdAge reports. The company began adding the films to its website last month, relying on an ad-supported model to deliver the movies to users for free.
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