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Apple TV was recognized with a record six nominations for the 2026 Gotham Television Awards, with three nods for Golden Globe winner "Pluribus," including Breakthrough Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Performance in a Drama Series for Rhea Seehorn and Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Drama Series for Karolina Wydra. Apple's globally acclaimed hit series "Margo's Got Money Troubles" landed two nominations for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Comedy Series for Elle Fanning, as well as Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series for Michelle Pfeiffer, and Critics Choice Award-winning docuseries "Mr. Scorsese" scored a nomination for Breakthrough Nonfiction Series...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson and set to open Sept. 22 in Los Angeles, has announced its inaugural exhibitions. With more than 1,200 objects total, the installations will span more than 30 galleries and occupy approximately 100,000 square feet of the museum which aims to "honor the universal tradition of telling stories through images." Drawn from the museum's founding collection, the exhibitions aim trace the evolution of human culture through storytelling, from ancient sculptures of gods and goddesses to Renaissance paintings to photographs, comics, and modern cinema, including props and costumes from the Lucas Archives...

Macro and Andreessen Horowitz's Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) announced the inaugural class for The Epigraph Creator Fellowship, a unique program that pairs filmmakers with frontier AI tools to integrate into their creative process. Macro — the multi-platform entertainment company representing BIPOC voices and perspectives with projects like "Judas and the Black Messiah," "One of Them Days," "Gentefied" and "Sorry to Bother You" — partnered with a16z's Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) — Silicon Valley's first venture capital fund consisting exclusively of Black cultural leaders and organizations committed to Black wealth generation — to launch the fellowship program. Its premise, a press release explains, is simple: "Creators who have always defined culture should have direct access to the technology tools helping to shape how stories get told."...

Justine Bateman's no-AI film festival is going streaming. The Credo 23 Film Festival, the gathering Bateman launched last year devoted to handmade human work, will now make its films available via a digital "room" through July 10 at RoomC23.com, Bateman says. Any consumer interested in its offerings can buy a "key" to the room for $40 and watch an unlimited amount of work. The "no-AI" festival, which held its second edition in Hollywood last month with sponsors like Kodak, is dedicated to the premise that "Generative AI has no place in filmmaking — based on stolen work, it only regurgitates the past." Many of the screened works have the raw vibe of early Sundance projects. The festival also gives all profits to filmmakers in the form of grants for future projects...

Paradise Lost has finally found a way to make it to the big screen, but there's a major catch. Penned by John Milton and published in the 17th century, the epic poem retells the biblical story of the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their eviction from the Garden of Eden. Despite its cinematic potential, Paradise Lost has long dodged a big-screen treatment, largely because bringing its heaven-and-hell spectacle to life would require truly divine (and wildly expensive) visual effects. Roger Avary's Paradise Lost movie continues the trend of established filmmakers embracing AI, echoing figures like Steven Soderbergh and Darren Aronofsky experimenting with the technology. Once wary, filmmakers are now cautiously exploring AI as a creative tool and experimenting with how it can expand visual storytelling without entirely replacing the human artistry at the core of cinema...

James Bell, senior curator of fiction at the BFI National Archive, who programmes the biennial Film On Film Festival, has noticed generations of filmgoers flocking to his selections — from 8mm to 70mm to nitrate — albeit for different reasons. "The audiences are getting younger," he observes. "Some of the research we found when asked why people came out to see a certain title, for the older audience, they were saying, 'I want to see the film,' as in, the title. But for younger audiences, 'I wanted to see this film print.' It was the fact it's truly on film, but also the stories around the particularities of this print. When we screen things on print in the BFI Southbank programme, we're seeing bigger audiences but also younger audiences — a real mix." The American Cinematheque features film prints, alongside digital, with popular series such as the Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest and the Nitrate Film Festival paying tribute to those specific formats...

The Basque animation sector is consolidating its position as one of Spain's most outward-looking and internationally connected creative hubs, with a reputation for nurturing singular creative talents capable of travelling to major festivals and specialist distributors. Leading the charge is Decorado, the latest feature from Alberto Vázquez, one of Spain's most distinctive animation voices. Decorado won the Goya award for best animated film at the 2026 awards on February 28 . The Spain-Portugal co-production was co-produced with Basque backing by Bilbao-based Uniko Estudio Creativo, along with Abano Producións, The Glow Animation Studio and Sardinha Em Lata. Blending a bold graphic universe with existential undertones, Decorado has also received the special jury prize at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles and the special jury mention at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas...