NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Get a 1st Look at The Hunger Games on Stage in London

Playbill: Attention, Panemanians: We have your first look at London's world premiere stage adaptation of The Hunger Games. The production, which began performances October 20 at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre in London, is set to open November 12. The theatre is purpose-built for the production, which is staged-in-the round. The extended run is currently scheduled through October 18, 2026.

Documentary shows Burning Man's "Leave No Trace" leaves a lot of trash all over the place

Boing Boing: Rather than being seen as a drug-fueled party for those with disposable income, Burning Man promotes its "radical self-reliance," inclusion, and a pledge to "leave no trace" on the dry lake bed it calls home. Locals are tired of the mountains of garbage dumped in their local parking lots, and left on "the playa."

Disney+ User-Generated AI Content: Analysis

www.indiewire.com: So much of the fear around artificial intelligence is that movie studios are going to use generative-AI to replace writers, directors, visual artists, and even actors and pump out entire films and shows with Sora 2 or other models. Cooler heads have had to prevail and show there are right ways about approaching generative-AI and doing so with an artist focus, insisting that jobs will evolve rather than be replaced and that there’s no replacing good storytelling.

Design and technology’s practical and creative skills should see it revived in the school curriculum

theconversation.com: Studying design and technology (D&T) at school gives children the opportunity to get up from behind a desk and learn practical skills. It’s the only subject in the national curriculum in which children can develop and create tangible solutions to real problems.

Stop Motion Secrets From the Creator of 'The Tiny Chef Show'

No Film School: I have been working as a Director of Photography for over 10 years in live-action and stop motion. Stop motion is a special niche, and there is not a lot of information on how much detail, time, and work go into it. Even a tiny change can take you out of the story!