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Blumhouse and Meta are partnering on Meta Movie Gen—a suite of AI models that show how you can use simple text inputs to produce custom videos and sounds, edit existing videos, and transform a personal image into a unique video. For the pilot, Blumhouse—a driving force in horror—selected a group of filmmakers to test out the technology and provide feedback before its public debut.

“While we’re not planning to incorporate Movie Gen models into any public products until next year,

Meta feels it’s important to have an open and early dialogue with the creative community about how it

can be the most useful tool for creativity and ensure its responsible use,” says Connor Hayes, VP of

GenAI at Meta.

Those filmmakers—Aneesh Chaganty, The Spurlock Sisters (The Breakline and participants in Blumhouse’s first annual Screamwriting Fellowship) and Casey Affleck —collaborated with Blumhouse...

Screenwriters know the feeling all too well: you complete a draft of your screenplay (yay!), now you need someone to read it (boo!). It’s a rollercoaster. Because let’s face it, your friends are tired, and how objective are they going to be, really? You’re saving your industry contracts for a later draft, and how detailed can they be, with their schedule and fifty other scripts to read? There are loads of script readers and people you can pay for coverage and feedback, and, who knows, they may offer valuable advice, or they might give a sentence or two of vague, […]

The post Navigating the Feedback Maze: How Greenlight Coverage Transformed My Screenwriting Journey (Sponsored Post) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

Screenwriters know the feeling all too well: you complete a draft of your screenplay (yay!), now you need someone to read it (boo!). It’s a rollercoaster. Because let’s face it, your friends are tired, and how objective are they going to be, really? You’re saving your industry contracts for a later draft, and how detailed can they be, with their schedule and fifty other scripts to read? There are loads of script readers and people you can pay for coverage and feedback, and, who knows, they may offer valuable advice, or they might give a sentence or two of vague, […]

The post Navigating the Feedback Maze: How Greenlight Coverage Transformed My Screenwriting Journey (Sponsored Post) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

A Day to Remember have unveiled the new single “Feedback” ahead of their extensive 2024 North American tour (pick up tickets here). The song marks the band’s first new music in two years.

Adtr’s music ranges from catchy pop-punk to heavy-as-hell metalcore, so fans never quite know what to expect from the Florida act. “Feedback” is a straight-ahead uptempo rock song with driving guitars, as singer Jeremy McKinnon delivers lines like, “Struck a chord/ I don’t play no more/ Little drama queen/ Karma king.”

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The song is accompanied by a cinematic video directed by Jeb Hardwick (watch below).

A Day to Remember will kick off their headlining “Least Anticipated Album Tour” on June 6th in Waite Park, Minnesota. Support acts include The Story So Far, Four Year Strong, Militarie Gun, Pain of Truth, and Scowl.

Despite the name of their tour,...

Netflix has unveiled nine new movies and series from Poland including the directorial debut of High Water writer Kasper Bajon and a thriller from the team behind Forgotten Love.

As the streamer continues to unveil international originals by the bucket load, Project UFO leads the Poland slate, a mini-series helmed by Bajon that will transport fans of stories inspired by real events to the 1980s in order to investigate the alleged UFO landing in a remote countryside village.

Bajon wrote the popular High Water series, one of the biggest to come from Netflix Poland, about the 1997 Central European flood and how it was managed by the authorities of the Polish city of Wrocław.

Meanwhile, Michał Gazda (director) and Magdalena Szwedkowicz (producer), the team behind last year’s Netflix Poland movie Forgotten Love, are re-teaming on a movie following a retired policeman trying to bring to justice to those behind a ruthless bank robbery case,...

The brand-new Polish miniseries Feedback could be termed a thriller that addresses a subject that was last discussed in the Danish film Another Round in the year 2020. Alcoholism is a serious matter and an awful vice, and not many realize its dire consequences. This five-episode miniseries, directed by Leszek Dawid and written by Kacper Wysocki, is about one man’s journey through binge drinking, followed by his on-and-off stint with therapy. The show was released on November 15, 2023, and people watching it might need a trigger warning.

The miniseries is about a former famous rockstar, Marcin Kania, who, after his fame and glory days, ventured into real estate to financially sustain his family. The show begins with the man waking up at his estranged family’s apartment, covered in blood, and barely remembering what happened the previous night. Marcin recollects meeting his son Piotrek over dinner, who was speaking about a...

“Feedback” is a Polish series directed by Leszek Dawid based on the novel by Jakub Żulczyk.

“Feedback” is a dramatic thriller with intense drama and a slow-paced rhythm. Don’t expect a Hollywood-style action frenzy in this series; it is more of an intriguing story about a man who, while searching for his son, finds the path to redemption.

On Netflix, whether we like it or not, there are stories for all tastes, and this must be acknowledged, although we may prefer some stories and narrative approaches over others.

What can we find in “Feedback”?

If you enjoy dramas that blend thriller elements and focus more on the internal struggles of the main character rather than the resolution of the mystery, then “Feedback” might appeal to you. It is a straightforward series without flashy Hollywood effects, where we delve into the (supposed) rehabilitation of an alcoholic, with a significant dose of social realism.

"Are you not telling me something?" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for a Polish drama-thriller series called Feedback, arriving for streaming this November. Yet another localized Netflix creation (as part of agreements for each country to utilize local artists / filmmakers) made for Polish audiences being released worldwide on Netflix. When his son mysteriously disappears, an alcohol-addicted former rock star ventures into the darkest corners of Warsaw and the human psyche to find his child. Arkadiusz Jakubik stars as Marcin Kania in this cinematic adaptation of Jakub Żulczyk’s renowned novel. Is he prepared to confront his past and unravel the mystery of his son's disappearance? Also co-starring Jan Hrynkiewicz. This looks like an intense series about crime and corruption in Warsaw, and how one this one alcoholic former rocker breaks down dealing with this terrible situation. If you're curious to see what this is all about - check it out.