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Darius Marder ’s Sound of Metal went into 2019’s Toronto International Film Festival without a distributor. Now, a year-and-a-half on, it’s a six-time Oscar nominee and perhaps the most hard-fought of all of this year’s crop of Best Picture candidates. Joe Utichi meets Marder and stars Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci to take stock of a film that transformed its key players in ways they hadn’t expected. They say Oscar loves a narrative, and they don’t come much more inspiring than Sound of Metal ’s. Even before he got his debut feature to set, Darius Marder spent more than a decade honing his tale about a heavy metal drummer and recovering addict who loses his hearing, butting up against the many hard realities of filmmaking that told him a movie like this could not work. As he did it, he learned more and more about deaf culture, and heard moving stories about people pursuing recovery in dedicated deaf sober houses. In Riz Ahmed, he found an actor willing to immerse so fully … [Read more...] about How ‘Sound Of Metal’ Changed Everything For Riz Ahmed, Darius Marder & Paul Raci, Even Before It Earned Six Oscar Nominations

After all these years, Black Adam is now finally ready to begin filming, and star Sarah Shahi , whose role has remained relatively mysterious, may have now revealed who she is playing. Shahi recently took to social media to celebrate the start of filming on the DC outing, referring to her character as "Adrianna," and thus likely confirming and ongoing rumor that she will, in fact, be playing Adrianna Tomaz. "Today is my first day filming #blackadam. I was cast in this role a year ago. I've had ups, downs, lefts, and rights. They all led me here. Very proud to represent my fellow middle eastern brothers and sisters as Adrianna. Let's continue to lift each other up as we tell each other's stories. Human stories. Connecting stories. Stories we all have inside of us." RELATED: Black Adam Begins Filming, The Rock Shares First Set Photo Adrianna Tomaz was originally spun out of the 1970s TV series The Secrets of Isis , which aired alongside the original Shazam! … [Read more...] about Sarah Shahi Teases Isis Role in The Rock’s Black Adam

Plex , a 12-year-old streaming provider with a unique combination of third-party access and management tools for users’ media assets, has raised $50 million in growth equity. The funds come from one of its existing backers, Intercap. As part of the round, Intercap chairman and CEO Jason Chapnik has joined the board of directors as chairman and Intercap president James Merkur has also gotten a board seat. The financing includes about $15 million in new capital for Plex, with the remainder used to buy shares and options from employees and shareholders. The company said it hopes the injection of capital will enable it to move closer to being a “one-stop shop” for streaming media. “Content providers, creators, and consumers are all paying the price for the explosion of so many streaming media services and the industry needs a trusted way for the experience to be as enjoyable as possible,” Chapnik said. “ Plex has always been at the forefront of solving new media … [Read more...] about Streaming Media Platform Plex Raises $50 Million From Existing Investor Intercap, Installing Its CEO As Board Chair