Mubi CEO Efe Cakarel praised Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime” while in a rare public appearance at the Zurich Summit. Talking about the phenomenon of young audiences returning to cinemas, the exec said that when he hears about a $20 million opening weekend for a film like Oppenheim’s Venice hit, it is “incredible.” “You look at the
TIFFCOM, the content market held in coordination with the Tokyo International Film Festival, will host a keynote presentation by Chris Brearton and Dominic Hughes, partner and chief scientific Officer, respectively, of AGBO, the studio founded by Anthony and Joe Russo. The session, titled “Technology and Storytelling,” takes place Oct. 29 and will be moderated by
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He’s also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn’t Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships,
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday to unveil the Netflix India Storytelling Initiative, a multi-phase investment in the country’s creative talent pipeline. The initiative builds on more than a decade of partnership between Netflix and India’s creative community, during which the streamer has produced over
Paramount CEO David Ellison said on the company’s earnings call Tuesday that he believes the company’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery will go through despite a legal challenge filed by a dozen states. Ellison also weighed in on how the company views artificial intelligence: It’s a tool for human storytellers, not a way to replace
It’s not just you: AI startups are receiving a lot of seed funding and, in the process, making things difficult for anyone seeking funding, even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders who are now locked into early-stage expectations.
