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    Parasite should embarrass Bollywood: The truth is that India is not making world class movies, and has not for some time

    • 17.02.2020
    • Times Of India

    Hollywood can’t seem to stop talking about how a South Korean film, Parasite, defied the ‘one-inch barrier’ of subtitles to become the first foreign film ever to win the top prize at the Oscars. To me, a movie buff from India, Parasite brings new urgency to an old question: Why can’t India, the world’s most prolific producer of films, make even one good enough for an Academy award?

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    Sun Valley Film Festival Teams With Ford to Launch Producing Pitch Fest

    • 16.02.2020
    • Variety

    The Sun Valley Film Festival and Ford, a three-time partner of the five-day event, have announced the Ford Pitch Fest, a new initiative where producers will have a chance to pitch their project to receive a $25,000 producers grant.

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    Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is taking a page from the enterprise sales handbook against Amazon and Microsoft

    • 16.02.2020
    • CNBC

    Google Cloud is turning to a traditional enterprise sales model as it takes on front-runners Amazon and Microsoft: separate services by industry and go straight to c-suites.

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    Warner Bros. Hosts Next Generation of Filmmakers for WB Studio Day as Los Angeles Unified Students Receive an On-Site, Behind-the-Scenes Education in the World of Production

    • 16.02.2020
    • CSR News

    WB Studio Day provided a unique opportunity for WB First Cut program students to gain career insight and in-depth knowledge of production’s inner workings on a working studio lot

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    Hollywood Is Using Victimhood To Sell Us Bad Entertainment

    • 16.02.2020
    • New York Post

    The 24 million people who watched this year’s Academy Awards got to see what Hollywood has become: an industry that cares less about producing quality entertainment, and more about reinforcing a culture that puts a premium on grievance, oppression and victimhood.

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    The TV adaptation of ‘Parasite’ seems like more Hollywood white-washing, but Bong Joon Ho’s involvement inspires hope

    • 16.02.2020
    • Business Insider

    Why is it set in America? Will it have a Korean cast or a white cast? There is a terrible fear that this could turn out to be just another instance where the American entertainment industry white-washes a beloved, critically-adored Asian story.

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    What is more disruptive with the AI: Its dark potentials or our (anti-Intellectual) Ignorance?

    • 16.02.2020
    • Modern Diplomacy

    Throughout the most of human evolution both progress as well as its horizontal transmission was extremely slow, occasional and tedious a process. Well into the classic period of Alexander the Macedonian and his glorious Alexandrian library, the speed of our knowledge transfers – however moderate, analogue and conservative – was still always surpassing snaillike cycles of our breakthroughs.

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    Once lost in translation, subtitles are now in the global spotlight

    • 16.02.2020
    • The Times of india

    'Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to many more amazing films." said Bong Joon-Ho, director of the Korean Film - Parasite.

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    Writers Guild Says It Held “Substantive” Talks With All Major Agencies Except One

    • 16.02.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    However, multiple major agencies deny that they are in talks with the guild.

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    Report: “There is a mental health crisis within the UK film and TV industry”

    • 15.02.2020
    • Real Screen

    The long-awaited results are in from a survey commissioned by the UK’s Film and TV Charity on the state of mental health across the film and television industry in the region.

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