Articles by Adrian Pennington
TheyDream

Sundance: Representation matters, today more than ever

As minority communities face attack in the US, two new films screened at Sundance Film Festival offer powerful takes on Latino American and Chicano culture.

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Young Elite

Vertical dramas: Market disruptor or passing fancy?

As studios begin to embrace the potential of vertical micro-dramas, should their rise be dismissed as merely a fad or a profound shift in the production, consumption and gender-bias of global storytelling?

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ISE 2026

ISE 2026: Thriving on an integrated identity

A show that mixes a vast number of different business areas shouldn’t work, but it does because the underlying technology is finally integrated.

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Behind the Scenes: Marty Supreme

Behind the Scenes: Marty Supreme

The creative team behind Uncut Gems brings its characteristic brash beauty and adrenaline to 1950’s New York City in a screwball drama.

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Winter Wonderland: All the tech at the Milano Cortina Olympics

Between first-person-view drones, expanded real-time 360° replays, and a massive virtualised production setup, Milano Cortina 2026 is set to be a major step forward in immersive, scalable, and sustainable Olympic broadcasting.

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MovieLabs: Creating an industry-aligned vision for the future of media creation

How MovieLabs is building on two decades of development in film and television to help guide the future of media creation.

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CES2026

CES 2026: “The ChatGPT moment for physical AI is nearly here”

Passive language-based text-to-video models are so last year. From the enterprise to the home to the creative suite, the future is multi-modal AI capable of massive three-dimensional world building and physical interaction.

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Sony virtual production

Multi-camera live virtual production on a broadcast budget

German broadcaster SWR claims a world first live multi-camera virtual production with potential learnings for broadcasters everywhere.

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Behind the Scenes: Hamnet

Behind the scenes: Hamnet

Look, lighting and camera movement were stripped back to basics by cinematographer Lukasz Żal to create the stage for Shakespeare’s personal tragedy.

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Quantum

Particle advice: How real is the quantum apocalypse?

While Google forges ahead with unlocking the potential of its Willow quantum computing chip, cybersecurity experts warn that further breakthroughs in the field could catch a digital ecosystem built on crypto security off guard. Adrian Pennington reports.

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