It turns out that predicting a movie’s success or failure at the Sundance Film Festival isn’t so complicated that a computer can’t do it. Unspam Technologies, an anti-spam consulting firm based in Park City, Utah, programmed a computer to sort through 32 contenders in the drama and documentary categories at this year’s festival in search…

Few filmmakers’ work is so instantly recognizable as that of Stanley Kubrick. Beautiful, precise composition. Elaborate tracking shots. Powerful acting. Deep, thought-provoking themes. Kubrick put his unique stamp and vision on every film he made. Despite his relatively small output, probably no other director made great films in so many different genres, from science fiction…

Hollywood giant Paramount Pictures has bought one of its best-known rival studios, Dreamworks SKG. Viacom, which owns Paramount, has agreed to pay $1.6bn (£914m; 1.36bn euros) – more than $1bn in cash, plus taking over Dreamworks’ debts. It gives the company the talents of one of the most famous filmmakers in the world, ET director…

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