Articles by Adrian Pennington
MWC 2024: Demis Hassabis (right) co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and sold it to Google in 2014

MWC 2024: 5G still awaits killer app as mobile industry looks to AI

AI was the buzz at Mobile World Congress 2024, but making a return on their 5G investment was at the forefront of operators’ minds. Adrian Pennington reports.

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Behind the Scenes: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The experience of cinematographer Pierre Gill on Disney series ‘Percy Jackson’ showed that lighting for an extensive shoot in a Volume is still work in progress, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Momentum builds behind content credentials to combat AI deepfakes

The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) is an organisation developing technical methods to document the origin and history of digital media files, both real and fake.

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The Zone of Interest

Behind the Scenes: The Zone of Interest

The cinematic adaptation of a Martin Amis novel juxtaposes mundane everyday life with the horror of Auschwitz using thermal vision and audio, among other narrative devices, reports Adrian Pennington.

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ISE review 2024: The age of AV Broadcast

The convergence of AV with traditional broadcast explains why more visitors and exhibitors at ISE 2024 are spanning both worlds, reports Adrian Pennington.

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Occupied City

Behind the Scenes: Occupied City

Steve McQueen’s new documentary juxtaposes the past with the present and breaks the traditional narrative style to bring the facts of the holocaust into the light, writes Adrian Pennington.

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ISE2024 Preview: Convergence, VP and Star Wars

If you think ISE is about the convergence of AV with broadcast think again. Show organisers say this has already happened. Even the IABM has a speaking slot, writes Adrian Pennington

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Issa López on set of True Detective: Night Country

Behind the Scenes: True Detective: Night Country

The fourth instalment of HBO’s crime drama True Detective is set in a remote outpost of Alaska but the show was filmed almost entirely in Iceland, where cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister BSC used an innovative Infrared technique to capture the perma-dark snowbound landscape, reports Adrian Pennington.

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Emma Stone in POOR THINGS

Behind the Scenes: Poor Things

A story about re-activating a dead woman with her unborn baby’s brain was always going to make for a strange film but if weird is what you want, Poor Things will not disappoint, writes Adrian Pennington.

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Behind the Scenes: Ferrari

Michael Mann’s new film contrasts the frenetic action of racing sports cars with the more formal staging of Enzo Ferrari’s interpersonal rivalries and driving ambition, writes Adrian Pennington.

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