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David Balda is a 26-year-old English-speaking Czech-based movie director who directed his first amateur movie at 16. Since then, he has helmed two theatrical films, the latest of which, Manipulation, (…)

By Dom Serafini

This is my take on the seemingly unreasonable acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance’s David Ellison.

Why would a new owner do something that the old owner (…)

“The [Content Europe TV] market has potential,” said Sangerim Zhakhina of Turkey’s Kanal D International. “It’s better than expected for the first edition. Good panels and time to network.” That’s (…)

While preparing what is considered the unofficial annual L.A. Screenings Guide, VideoAge cornered Isabella Marquez (pictured above, l., with associate Lissette San Martin), the organizer of the L.A. Screenings Independents, (…)

American film/TV studios might have made another strategic blunder. First, they sold their best content to make Netflix a major streamer, and, eventually, their major competitor. And now, the studios (…)

For lovers of bad news, VideoAge‘s April Issue comes just in time. But don’t fret, lovers of positive news. This is a good Issue for you, too. The “My2¢” editorial (…)

Before direct sound became a fixture in film and television shows, most non-U.S. TV programs were dubbed, even in the same language. Dubbing has always been an important element of (…)

Lillian Hellman, a declared Communist, is reported to have said that “Communism is good, but it doesn’t work.” Yet it took 67 years for the government of Cuba to discover (…)

By Dom Serafini

There are experts, like New York University professor Jonathan Haidt, who, in his book The Anxious Generation, argues in favor of social media regulations. Others, like Jacob Mchangama, (…)

By Dom Serafini — The Mastic-Moriches-Shirley Community Library on Long Island, New York, is frantically searching for a recording of the video I recorded during the July 4, 1976 parade (…)