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The Future of StoryTelling (FoST) will host its second annual summit in New York City on Oct. 3, exploring how technology is making storytelling more interactive, and one its participants, Tom Perlmutter, chairperson, National Film Board of Canada and Government Film Commissioner, has created a video presentation on the “Evolution of Cinema and the Birth of a New Art Form,” which you can view below. Read more
The former VFX vet discusses the challenges of helming Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, which concerns the search for the Golden Fleece to save the Half-Bloods, recalling the great Ray Harryhausen’s and Jason and the Argonauts. Read more
The Wizard of Oz will receive the first IMAX 3D premiere at the new TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Sept. 15, followed by an exclusive one-week IMAX engagement at the Chinese and IMAX theaters across North America beginning Sept. 20. Read more
Wandering/Cut Films, which produced David Spaltro’s award-winning indie features …Around (2008) and Things I Don’t Understand (2012), has acquired the rights to the existentialist horror novella, A Short Stay in Hell, by Steven L. Peck, which Spaltro will direct. Read more
The second trailer for the highly-anticipated Ender’s Game (Nov. 1) is much darker than the first and reveals: “This is no game. Read more
The first trailer for Ben Stiller’s re-imagining of James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Christmas Day) reminds me of a quirky twist on The Graduate, of all things. Read more
Sam Mendes, as expected, will return to direct Bond 24, which will be released in the UK on Oct. 23, 2015 and in the US on Nov. 6, 2015 by Sony. Daniel Craig will reprise James Bond for the fourth time, reporting for duty “with pleasure,” with a script by John Logan, to make the Skyfall reunion complete. Read more
Here’s the first look at Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks (Dec. 13), Disney’s Oscar hopeful about the quest to make a movie out of Mary Poppins. Read more
Peter Jackson won’t be coming to Comic-Con because he’s in the thick of it, but here’s the next best thing: a new videoblog for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Dec. 13). Read more
Here’s the first teaser for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Dec. 13), so feast your eyes on the initial glimpses of the dragon (voiced by the very busy Benedict Cumberbatch) and Evangeline Lilly’s elf, Tauriel. Read more
