The film Satluj, based on human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, was removed from ZEE5 in India after its OTT release without mandatory certification. The information and broadcasting ministry stated the film bypassed required cuts and certification, leading to its withdrawal.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu's action-comedy drama 'Maa Inti Bangaram' has released to a good audience response and box office figures. JioHotstar has reportedly acquired the OTT streaming rights, with a potential digital release in late July or early August 2026, depending on theatrical performance.
Sony has released the first trailer for "The Social Reckoning," a follow-up to "The Social Network." Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, the film stars Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg and Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen, focusing on a Facebook engineer exposing platform secrets.
The OTT release of 'Dhurandhar: The Revenge' on Netflix has ignited social media discussions, with viewers highlighting significant differences from the theatrical cut. The uncensored version features more graphic violence and altered scenes, leading to criticism of Indian censorship.
The trailer for 'Drishyam 3' has been released, showcasing Mohanlal's Georgekutty facing a new deadly mystery. The film promises to be an enthralling and emotional thriller, continuing the gripping saga from its predecessors. With a strong cast and crew, the movie is set for a worldwide theatrical release on May 21, 2026.
From Soderbergh to Aronofsky, esteemed Hollywood directors are starting to find ways to include artificial intelligence in the production of their filmsIn Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known painting series. The movie is smart and provocative about the nature of artistry and authorship, exploring what it means to create – and to stop creating. It’s especially fascinating coming from Soderbergh, who has made movies with workhorse dependability (The Christophers is his third theatrical release of the past 18 months) and also spent four years retired from directing features entirely.It also provides particularly jarring context for Soderbergh, in interviews promoting the film, to voice his interest in something that a lot of great artists have pointedly refused to embrace: using AI in films. Soderbergh mentioned in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine that he used what sounds like generative AI to produce “thematically surreal images that occupy a dream space rather than a literal space” for his upcoming documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He also said that a movie he’s hoping to make about the Spanish-American war would use “a lot of AI”. In a subsequent conversation with Variety, Soderbergh didn’t sound like an AI evangelist, but nor did he back down: “I don’t think it’s the solution to everything, and I don’t think it’s the death of everything. We’re in the very early stages. Five years from now, we all may be going, ‘That was a fun phase.’ We may end up not using it as much as we thought we were going to.” Continue reading...
