How Genre Went Mainstream
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Once seen as niche or nerdy, science fiction, fantasy and horror fare have moved into a dominant position on the film and TV landscape. Platforms are starving for it, theaters can fill up when it’s playing and producers are always on the lookout for opportunities to back the right project.
“Genre filmmaking presents a climate of opportunity for producers,” says AGC Studios chairman and CEO Stuart Ford. “Genre movies can often be produced on more modest budgets and are not as reliant on big name acting talent,” he explained, citing Neill Blomkamp’s “Demonic,” which AGC Studios screened just before the EFM.
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During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction of astronomical instruments designed specifically for planet searches. Also, using a combination of different observing techniques they have been able to determine a large numher of masses, sizes, and hence densities of the planets, which helps them to estimate their internal composition and raising the number of planets which have been discovered outside the Solar System.
However, to study the atmospheres of the rocky planets, which would made it possible to characterize fully those exoplanets which are similar to Earth, is extremely difficult with currently available instruments. For that reason, the atmospheric models for rocky planets are still not tested.
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Amazon’s Spanish horror series
The Boarding School: Las Cumbres, a reboot of the early-2000s Spanish show of the same name, takes place in an isolated Catholic boarding school for wayward teenagers, where the teachers’ discipline is severe and the students dream of escape. The eerie stone building on a cliff, surrounded by a swath of dark forest, already makes for a creepy Gothic atmosphere. (Nothing says Gothic romance like an ominous building that’s impossible to leave.) And that’s without the mysterious figure in a plague mask who kidnaps a student at the end of the first episode.