Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Swedish readers will already know all about The Last Journey, which in 2024 became the most successful documentary in the country’s history. They will also be acquainted with co-directors and stars Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Who would be a child — or a corporate subsidiary? As Disney grinds through endless pinched live-action remakes of its back catalogue, leave it to auxiliary business Pixar to take what feels like actual pleasure in … Read more
In summer, Hollywood can still pretend to be itself. Beyond September, the long slog of the Oscar race now sees once all-powerful studios cast as also-rans. (The reigning Best Picture, Anora, was released by New York indie Neon.) Christmas, meanwhile, belongs to Netflix, the festive season delivering record new subscriptions: 19mn in Q4 2024. But … Read more
The Arcola Theatre, tucked a few streets back from Dalston Kingsland’s busy market, is nearly empty when I arrive. Bedouin lamps hang from the ceiling. Pictures of past productions are displayed on exposed brick walls. That Rebecca Lenkiewicz suggested we meet here, a former paint factory, now her “theatre heaven”, is unsurprising. Her play The … Read more
Sensors dotting an actor’s black suit transpose his movements on to an animated creature. A huge monster curls his paw over a ruined church wall, seamlessly blending the virtual and the real. A curved screen surrounds the audience with a lifelike range of mountains and forests. These are digital sets at Belfast’s new £72mn Studio … Read more
Why do you open your film with hard rock anthem “Whole Lotta Love?” If you’re slick new blockbuster F1, you do it first to capture the strutting energy of the music, as engines roar and the trackside crowd screams for Brad Pitt as racing driver Sonny Hayes. Then the viewer realises there is another reason. … Read more
At the end of November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that quickly announced we were living in a new age. A week later, Universal Pictures gave the world M3gan, a comedy horror with a wickedly timely premise: an AI housed in a humanoid Valley Girl doll, made as a best friend for a lonely … Read more
Mumbai: Serious concerns have been raised by the Government of India regarding the imposition of additional levies on ethanol by the states of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. The Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has urged these states to reconsider recent policy changes that could hamper the country’s ethanol blending programme, increase fuel … Read more
Srinagar: Here comes a piece of good news for the Vande Bharat Express train passengers on the Katra-Srinagar route as the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) decided to serve Kashmiri vegetarian cuisine to passengers from the second week of July. “We are working out a plan to serve local cuisine on the … Read more
New Delhi: Iran has issued its sharpest warning yet following the US airstrikes on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, declaring that the American involvement has officially expanded the scope of the conflict. Iran’s military central command spokesperson, Ebrahim Zolfaghari, directly addressed US President Donald Trump in a message saying, “Gambler Trump, you can start … Read more