Will James Bond finally return to action? The prospect for a new film in the long-running spy thriller series increased dramatically on Thursday with the announcement that Amazon MGM Studios… Read More
The news that one historic theater would live on had people cheering at another historic theater on the other side of downtown Seattle on Thursday night. Film fans who turned… Read More
Amazon is close to a deal to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. The historic Hollywood studio would cost the Seattle-based… Read More
There’s apparently a reason everyone wants in on the streaming game: because the services keep putting on a strong showing when awards season rolls around. Monday’s announcement of the Golden… Read More
Did you spend years in your parents’ basement playing ping pong? Or foosball? Or Catan? If so, join the GeekWire team and 2,000 Seattle area geeks on March 7th for… Read More
Penguins and icebergs weren’t the only unusual things I encountered on a recent expedition to Antarctica. One of the trip leaders, a 28-year-old photographer named Michael Strickland, traveled from Kansas… Read More
Back in 2007, three Seattle teens who grew up with a love for making films decided to help others share their work with a wider audience, creating the National Film Festival… Read More
At this point, it’s clear that foreign actors tried to impact the 2016 presidential election through social media, often using false information about candidates. But this week we saw signs… Read More
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is known for pushing the boundaries of filmmaking — from his classics like Sex, Lies & Videotape and Traffic to his newest project, an interactive experience called Mosaic,… Read More
Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award-winning director and groundbreaking filmmaker known for Sex, Lies & Videotape, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Erin Brockovich and other iconic films, has been working for three years… Read More
For better or worse, tech is having a huge impact on Seattle. And while many locals are disgruntled by how quickly and dramatically tech is changing the city, one local… Read More
Amazon is constantly adding new features to entice customers to sign up for its $99 a year Prime membership. The result is a hodgepodge of content and products associated with… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ready for the Internet to “grow up.” It needs to happen, he told the crowd at AT&T’s Developer Summit, if we’re going to… Read More
PALM DESERT, Calif.—Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu has taken audiences on mind-blowing experiences in recent years, telling stories of vengeance in The Revenant and an actor’s struggle to overcome insecurity in Birdman. Now,… Read More
Is it possible to create a visual gospel, to be seen on a movie screen rather than read from a parchment? If so, that’s what filmmaker Terrence Malick has created… Read More
As the sun set over the Olympic Mountains on a warm and muggy Sunday, I trekked from the manicured suburbia of Sammamish, Wash., to Seattle’s historic Fort Lawton district, where… Read More
Get ready for your close-up, Mario. Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told a Japanese newspaper that the company will begin releasing its own feature films in the next two to three… Read More
Popular opinion about big data is not all that rosy. Most people don’t completely understand or care about the subject too greatly, and yet they know enough to be wary… Read More
A year ago, Amazon surprised everyone by inking a deal with Woody Allen. The retail-giant-turned-film-studio booked Allen for an original TV series. While that project is still in the works,… Read More
As streaming services dive deeper into high-quality original content, including movies, they’re expected to start competing with traditional films at the Oscars. Jeff Bezos hopes to be a part of that phenomenon in… Read More
I recently had the opportunity to enjoy the steampunk movement documentary, Vintage Tomorrows. The 64-minute Byrd McDonald film, much of it filmed around a table in Seattle’s own Dahlia Lounge,… Read More
Shortly after joining Pixar Studios, Danielle Feinberg was faced with a situation that proved to be pivotal in her tech career. Her team was quickly approaching an important deadline and on track to make… Read More
Netflix’s initial push into original programming quickly established it as a worthy competitor for established content creators, thanks to hit shows like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards. Now the… Read More
May has arrived in Seattle, and that means the sunshine and the May Day rioters have arrived. It also means the annual GeekWire Awards are just around the corner —… Read More
The gap between men and women in tech is a touchy subject that’s been around for a bit. A new documentary, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap tackles the question head on,… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Sony CEO Kaz Hirai wasted no time addressing the elephant in the room at his company’s CES press conference on Monday afternoon. Hirai began his talk by discussing… Read More
I can count on one hand the number of films that have brought me to tears since I first watched Simba fruitlessly try to revive his father — but The Theory… Read More
Amazon.com continues its push into the video distribution arena, taking on the likes of Hulu and Netflix. And its latest attempt comes in the form of Zombieland. Amazon Studios will… Read More
For the first time ever, a feature-length movie is debuting on Xbox Live. Pulp is an indepedent British comedy about a struggling comic book store owner who, with his two “geek sidekicks,”… Read More
If you’re looking for something fun, original and geeky to do in Seattle this weekend, look no further than the special encore screening of the 2013 Science Fiction and Fantasy… Read More
