The threat of AI replacing human creativity loomed large over the 2023 Webby Awards Monday night.
During the New York ceremony honoring the best of the Internet, host Roy Wood Jr. frequently did battle with what was introduced as an AI voice, which claimed it could replace Wood Jr. as host due to all it had learned about humor. Initially appearing as a graphic on a screen with a computerized voice, the AI later took the form of a small child, Kanye West and Wood Jr. himself, as the bit continued throughout the show.
Every time, though, the AI, which called itself “Asshole,” wasn’t able to get much of a response from the audience with its jokes, allowing Wood Jr. to dismiss it by saying things like “Get out of here, Asshole.”
Before the Webbys AI stole the spotlight, Wood Jr. spoke about the dangers of the technology, which is...
During the New York ceremony honoring the best of the Internet, host Roy Wood Jr. frequently did battle with what was introduced as an AI voice, which claimed it could replace Wood Jr. as host due to all it had learned about humor. Initially appearing as a graphic on a screen with a computerized voice, the AI later took the form of a small child, Kanye West and Wood Jr. himself, as the bit continued throughout the show.
Every time, though, the AI, which called itself “Asshole,” wasn’t able to get much of a response from the audience with its jokes, allowing Wood Jr. to dismiss it by saying things like “Get out of here, Asshole.”
Before the Webbys AI stole the spotlight, Wood Jr. spoke about the dangers of the technology, which is...
- 5/16/2023
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Sniper’s Daughter
We’ve had to wait a while for Oorlagh George‘s directorial debut to shore up and we’ll definitely be getting a taste in ’23. It’s gestated long enough to already have a change in titles moving from “Stranger With A Camera” to what will be now be known as The Sniper’s Daughter. The Belfast-born filmmaker developed the feature through Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing Labs and among her cast we find Ellie Bamber, Owen McDonnell, Michael Shea, and Brian Milligan. George produced alongside Mary Ann Marino, Molly Egan and John Wallace.
Gist: A troubled American teen is stranded in Northern Ireland when her father is suddenly arrested for an Ira related murder from seventeen years prior.…...
We’ve had to wait a while for Oorlagh George‘s directorial debut to shore up and we’ll definitely be getting a taste in ’23. It’s gestated long enough to already have a change in titles moving from “Stranger With A Camera” to what will be now be known as The Sniper’s Daughter. The Belfast-born filmmaker developed the feature through Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing Labs and among her cast we find Ellie Bamber, Owen McDonnell, Michael Shea, and Brian Milligan. George produced alongside Mary Ann Marino, Molly Egan and John Wallace.
Gist: A troubled American teen is stranded in Northern Ireland when her father is suddenly arrested for an Ira related murder from seventeen years prior.…...
- 1/5/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Stranger with a Camera
Belfast-born filmmaker Oorlagh George will be ready to present her narrative debut Stranger with a Camera in 2021, developed through Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing Labs. Among her cast is Ellie Bamber, Owen McDonnell, Michael Shea, and Brian Milligan. George produced her own feature alongside Mary Ann Marino, Molly Egan and John Wallace. Initially an assistant to Clive Owen in the early 2000s, George nabbed an Academy Award for Best Short Live Action Film with “The Shore” in 2012. Her father is Terry George of In the Name of the Father and Hotel Rwanda fame.…...
Belfast-born filmmaker Oorlagh George will be ready to present her narrative debut Stranger with a Camera in 2021, developed through Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing Labs. Among her cast is Ellie Bamber, Owen McDonnell, Michael Shea, and Brian Milligan. George produced her own feature alongside Mary Ann Marino, Molly Egan and John Wallace. Initially an assistant to Clive Owen in the early 2000s, George nabbed an Academy Award for Best Short Live Action Film with “The Shore” in 2012. Her father is Terry George of In the Name of the Father and Hotel Rwanda fame.…...
- 1/1/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Calamity Films, the UK producer behind Judy, for which Renée Zellweger recently won an Oscar, has named Sam Gordon as its head of development. Gordon joins from BBC Films, where he worked as a development executive on projects including recent Sundance pic Herself and the upcoming People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan, as well as Judy which the BBC backed. He also had prior roles at Magnolia Mae Films and Baby Cow, working on Stan & Ollie and Philomena. At Calamity, Gordon will report to founder David Livingstone and will work across film and TV projects.
The fourth Seafic lab, which nurtures Southeast Asian films, will welcome filmmakers including Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul for its 2020 edition. Five projects will take part, including a new feature from Locarno Golden Leopard-winning A Land Imagined producer Fran Borgia, and Locarno-winning The Science Of Fictions producer Yulia Evina Bhar. The teams this year hail from Indonesia,...
The fourth Seafic lab, which nurtures Southeast Asian films, will welcome filmmakers including Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul for its 2020 edition. Five projects will take part, including a new feature from Locarno Golden Leopard-winning A Land Imagined producer Fran Borgia, and Locarno-winning The Science Of Fictions producer Yulia Evina Bhar. The teams this year hail from Indonesia,...
- 2/14/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Ellie Bamber stars, with Owen McDonnell and Michael Shea.
Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.
Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.
Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...
Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.
Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.
Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...
- 2/13/2020
- by 1100995¦Esther McCarthy¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Ellie Bamber stars, with Owen McDonnell and Michael Shea.
Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.
Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.
Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...
Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.
Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.
Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...
- 2/13/2020
- by 1100995¦Esther McCarthy¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Ellie Bamber stars, with Owen McDonnell and Michael Shea.
Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.
Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.
Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...
Principal photography has begun in Northern Ireland on Stranger With A Camera, the debut feature from Oscar-winning producer Oorlagh George.
Written and directed by George, the project was developed through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting and Directing labs. The filmmaker won an Oscar for producing short film, The Shore, directed by her father, Terry George, whose feature credits include In The Name Of The Father and Some Mother’s Son.
Stranger With A Camera stars Ellie Bamber (BBC’s Les Misérables) with Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Michael Shea (Derry Girls) and Brian Milligan...
- 2/13/2020
- by 1100995¦Esther McCarthy¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, Steven Zaillian’s script for “The Irishman” wins an award, MGM hires a trio of marketing execs, MTV Documentary Films sets three new projects; and “The Caretaker of Lorne Field” is becoming a movie.
Awards
Steven Zaillian’s screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” will receive the best original screenplay award at the 24th annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival.
The award will be presented to Zaillian during festival, which runs between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2.
Tony Renis, the festival’s honorary president, said, “‘The Irishman’ is considered to be one of Scorsese’s greatest films and Zaillian’s script is a true masterpiece. The talented writer is a long-time collaborator of the Italian-American maestro as well as many other great auteurs. His script is a perfect piece of work, which has resulted in remarkable performances brought to life by such movie stars as Robert De Niro,...
Awards
Steven Zaillian’s screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” will receive the best original screenplay award at the 24th annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival.
The award will be presented to Zaillian during festival, which runs between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2.
Tony Renis, the festival’s honorary president, said, “‘The Irishman’ is considered to be one of Scorsese’s greatest films and Zaillian’s script is a true masterpiece. The talented writer is a long-time collaborator of the Italian-American maestro as well as many other great auteurs. His script is a perfect piece of work, which has resulted in remarkable performances brought to life by such movie stars as Robert De Niro,...
- 11/19/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty-seven new television pilots developed by creators of color have been funded through Seed&Spark’s “Keep it Colorful” crowdfunding effort, Variety has learned exclusively.
The pilots run the gamut of genres, including comedy, drama, sci-fi and animation, and many of them center on themes involving women and Lgbtq individuals.
“We are showing the industry there is a very solid and viable pipeline of talent and projects from creators of color even if they are not yet represented by agencies or don’t have deals with studios,” said Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark. “We are going beyond the notion of ‘inclusion’ to just change the entertainment industry to reflect the world in which we actually live by getting work made and seen.”
There were approximately 50 content creators of color who entered the crowdfunding rally during “Keep it Colorful.” The 27 that met their financial goal will move forward into production.
The pilots run the gamut of genres, including comedy, drama, sci-fi and animation, and many of them center on themes involving women and Lgbtq individuals.
“We are showing the industry there is a very solid and viable pipeline of talent and projects from creators of color even if they are not yet represented by agencies or don’t have deals with studios,” said Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark. “We are going beyond the notion of ‘inclusion’ to just change the entertainment industry to reflect the world in which we actually live by getting work made and seen.”
There were approximately 50 content creators of color who entered the crowdfunding rally during “Keep it Colorful.” The 27 that met their financial goal will move forward into production.
- 10/30/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Company plans Us release later this year.
Magnolia Pictures will launch international sales in Cannes on the comedy Permanent starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson.
Colette Burson wrote and directed the 1980’s-set coming-of-age story about a young teenager who desperately wants a perm to make a fashion statement at school.
When her clueless parents take her to a hairdressing academy to save money, things go wrong. Newcomer Kira McLean rounds out the key cast.
Magnolia head of worldwide sales Scott Veltri and director of international sales Lorna Lee Sagebiel-Torres will introduce Permanent on the Croisette.
Magnolia plans a Us release later this year for the 2929 production in partnership with Park Pictures and Washington Square Films.
Mary Ann Marino, Haroula Rose, Sam Bisbee, and Joshua Blum produced the film.
Executive producers are Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Ben Cosgrove, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens.
Magnolia Pictures will launch international sales in Cannes on the comedy Permanent starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson.
Colette Burson wrote and directed the 1980’s-set coming-of-age story about a young teenager who desperately wants a perm to make a fashion statement at school.
When her clueless parents take her to a hairdressing academy to save money, things go wrong. Newcomer Kira McLean rounds out the key cast.
Magnolia head of worldwide sales Scott Veltri and director of international sales Lorna Lee Sagebiel-Torres will introduce Permanent on the Croisette.
Magnolia plans a Us release later this year for the 2929 production in partnership with Park Pictures and Washington Square Films.
Mary Ann Marino, Haroula Rose, Sam Bisbee, and Joshua Blum produced the film.
Executive producers are Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Ben Cosgrove, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord, and Danielle Renfrew Behrens.
- 5/11/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Film Society Of Lincoln Center announced on Monday complete details for the interactive storytelling programme that runs from October 1-4 within the 54th New York Film Festival.
Convergence includes nine interactive experiences featuring virtual reality, augmented reality and installations.
Sound Hunters invites users to record the sounds of their world via an app by mixing and remixing their own electronic music compositions, while audience-directed heist film Late Shift gets its Us premiere
Click here for the full line-up.
Oscar winner and Boyhood star Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson are lining up for Colette Burson’s Permanent, which will shoot in Virginia this summer. Mary Ann Marino, Haroula Rose, Sam Bisbee, and Joshua Blum produce the comedy about an idiosyncratic family in the 1980s that seeks to be more artistic. 2929 Productions is financing in partnership with Park Pictures and Washington Square Films.
Convergence includes nine interactive experiences featuring virtual reality, augmented reality and installations.
Sound Hunters invites users to record the sounds of their world via an app by mixing and remixing their own electronic music compositions, while audience-directed heist film Late Shift gets its Us premiere
Click here for the full line-up.
Oscar winner and Boyhood star Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson are lining up for Colette Burson’s Permanent, which will shoot in Virginia this summer. Mary Ann Marino, Haroula Rose, Sam Bisbee, and Joshua Blum produce the comedy about an idiosyncratic family in the 1980s that seeks to be more artistic. 2929 Productions is financing in partnership with Park Pictures and Washington Square Films.
- 8/15/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Institute Announces Participants & Projects For Weeklong Creative Film Producing Initiative
Today, the Sundance Institute announces the participants for its weeklong Creative Film Producing Initiative at the Sundance Resort in Utah. This includes 11 feature film and documentary projects for the Creative Producing Labs, and more than 50 industry leaders for the Creative Producing Summit. The Institute’s Creative Producing Initiative encompasses a year-round series of Labs and Fellowships, nurturing the next generation of independent producers so that they can help sustain and support the vibrancy of independent film.
Read More: Sundance Institute Announces Projects For Its 2016 Screenwriters Lab, Doc Edit and Story Labs & Theatre-Makers Residency
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab takes place from August 1st through 5th. It identifies emerging producers and, under the guidance of Creative Advisors, allows them to develop their creative instincts and evolve their skills at all stages of the project. Lab Fellows continue on through the Creative Producing Summit and receive ongoing yearlong mentorship, granting, and...
Read More: Sundance Institute Announces Projects For Its 2016 Screenwriters Lab, Doc Edit and Story Labs & Theatre-Makers Residency
The Feature Film Creative Producing Lab takes place from August 1st through 5th. It identifies emerging producers and, under the guidance of Creative Advisors, allows them to develop their creative instincts and evolve their skills at all stages of the project. Lab Fellows continue on through the Creative Producing Summit and receive ongoing yearlong mentorship, granting, and...
- 7/18/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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