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Wonder Dynamics, a startup founded by Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan and VFX expert Nikola Todorovic that aims to lower the cost and level the playing field for visual effects, raised $9 million in a Series A funding round that included Epic Games and Samsung as investors. An initial funding round last spring…

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland’s St. Andrews is known for its ruins and for being the birthplace of golf. Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo hopes that an annual international film festival he’ll help get off the ground next year will become an additional destination to the seaside Scottish town. Sands: International Film…

Joe Russo, best known for his collaborations with brother Anthony on Marvel blockbusters Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, spoke today about moving outside of the studio system with the formation of his indie company AGBO, and the future of the theatrical biz in the streaming era. Appearing in-person…

While Chris Hemsworth’s black ops mercenary Tyler Rake appeared to have met his end at the close of Extraction, the actor confirmed today that he will be back for Extraction 2, as Netflix unveiled a teaser for the sequel. Hemsworth will reteam on the follow-up film with director Sam Hargrave, as well as producers Joe…

In the wake of having the pandemic’s top grossing Hollywood movie, F9 ($593.7 million WW), screenwriter Daniel Casey is penning AGBO’s feature adaptation of the 1978 Japanese anime series Battle of the Planets.  Casey is working with Joe and Anthony Russo and their AGBO to help construct the foundation for a Battle of…

Cuban filmmaker Alejandro Brugués is attached to direct the Netflix horror film The Last Will and Testament of Charles Abernathy. It’s based on Chris LaMont and Joe Russo’s original screenplay that was featured on the 2018 BloodList and sold to the streamer. Paul Schiff, who collaborated with Netflix on the Sam…

EXCLUSIVE: A round of seed funding has been completed by Wonder Dynamics, the AI-driven visual effects venture hatched by VFX artist Nikola Todorovic and Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan to democratize the visual effects process using Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to develop production tools for…

On Wednesday, AGBO announced that it is launching “No Sleep ’til Film Fest,” a filmmaking competition and festival, geared toward emerging artists, which will take place between the 16th and 18th of April. For the independent film and television production company, the virtual short film festival reflects an ongoing…

EXCLUSIVE: Eme Ikwuakor and Scott Haze are set to appear opposite Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, Dhanush, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfre Woodard, Regé-Jean Page, and Julia Butters in The Gray Man, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The Netflix and AGBO action-thriller is based on…

Joe and Anthony Russo went back home for their return to directing after guiding Avengers: Endgame to the biggest box office haul in history. That’s where they found Cherry, the Apple TV+ indie drama based on the novel by their fellow Cleveland native Nico Walker. The book was based on Walker’s own experiences and…

What do you do after you direct the biggest-grossing film of all time? If you are Joe and Anthony Russo, you get personal and you go indie. That is exactly what the filmmaking brothers decided to do following their huge success in the MCU and the final two Avengers movies in particular. Bringing one of that…

Anthony and Joe Russo are the latest top-level talent to strike a major podcasting deal with Spotify. The pair, who run entertainment company AGBO and are the directors of Captain America: Civil War; Avengers: Infinity War; and Avengers: Endgame, have struck a multi-year, multi-series deal with the audio company to…