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And yet, despite those increasingly ridiculous examples, Blomkamp’s impetus to let digital tools drive his storytelling has never been more transparent or contrived than it is in his DOA new horror film “Demonic,” which leans on three sequences created with volumetric capture (described by Blomkamp as a kind of three-dimensional video system through which the actors are simultaneously recorded with 260 cameras and then “turned into geometry”) to spice up an undercooked possession saga....

While the 2020 presidential election is over two months away, this week’s Democratic National Convention will likely be Biden’s biggest and best chance to motivate Democratic voters to turn out for Joe Biden in November. Unlike all American presidential elections in recent history, large campaigning events are unlikely to happen this voting season due to the coronavirus pandemic, while the upcoming presidential debates are unlikely to sway Democrats toward Trump, who presumably will not vote for the President in any meaningful numbers....

One of those kids was Jude Weng, now a prolific director on beloved TV comedies “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “The Good Place,” and “Fresh Off the Boat,” making her splashy feature debut with “Finding ‘Ohana.” (The film reached the top spot in Netflix’s top ten the weekend in debuted.) She calls Quan’s casting “total serendipity,” brought about by sheer Hollywood luck. Running into an old friend in an ice cream shop, she was excited to share that she was directing her first film, which she said was “like ‘The Goonies,’ but in Hawaii....

Public tickets and passes go on sale Thursday at 11 a.m. PT/noon MT/1 p.m. CT/2 p.m. ET. Time zones are indeed important this year, because anyone with a computer and internet connection can access the festival’s virtual screenings anywhere in the US (the VR program is available internationally). Tickets start at $15. At the same time Thursday, industry members with standard passes can begin making reservations for virtual premiere screenings. Capacity is limited and first come, first served, so it’s important to make a reservation sooner rather than later if there’s a specific film you want to see during its first screening....

Gone are the easy, early days of streaming, where something was either on Netflix or it wasn’t. Nearly every major studio has its own streaming service and, according to research from NPD Group, the average American household uses seven different subscription or ad-supported services. That makes figuring out where you can watch Christian Bale’s gravelly-voiced crusader a real chore. The streaming wars have spawned a new fight: the aggregation wars. Competing companies want to streamline the consumer experience by crafting a single interface that reaches across the ever-expanding universe for a unified search, a single watch list, and universal recommendations....

And what do words like “good” or “bad” even mean anymore? Sure, “Hubie Halloween” feels like it was written in the span of a single afternoon by two middle-aged men wearing gym shorts, but at least they included a scene where Ray Liotta refers to Sandler’s dim-witted hero as “Pubie Dubois” (a cruel nickname that spreads through Salem like a novel coronavirus through the White House). Sure, this dopey story about a Halloween-obsessed scaredy cat who teaches the jerks in his town about the true meaning of bravery or whatever is just a flimsy excuse to let Sandler and his friends make each other laugh on someone else’s dime/bottomless corporate debt, but at least it allows every American to fulfill their lifelong dream of watching Steve Buscemi play a werewolf....

The Oscar-winning director returned to his home nation of Mexico to film upcoming feature “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” after leaving for Los Angeles exactly 20 years ago. The Netflix film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will play in movie theaters in Mexico starting October 27 before debuting in North American theaters November 4. Netflix will release the title for streaming December 16. The special theatrical run in both nations “is something I really appreciate,” Iñárritu said during a Venice Film Festival press conference (via Deadline)....