Schools are increasingly thinking outside the bubble sheet to prepare the workforce of the future.

Sorgente: Why More and More High Schools Are Acting Like Startups | Fast Forward | OZY

Earlier this year, a survey of pay-TV providers by the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2017 found that the majority of pay-TV execs believed data and analytics will be critical to pay TV direction over the next five years.

Sorgente: Data? A growing, critical resource for the pay-TV and OTT industry

Director David Leitch used analog techniques to make action cinema feel real again.

Sorgente: How They Pulled Off ‘Atomic Blonde”s* Killer Action Sequence | WIRED

Taking one for the stream.

Sorgente: How Netflix DDoS’d Itself To Help Protect the Entire Internet | WIRED

Last night’s episode was a valuable reminder that this show will always love to mess with you.

Sorgente: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap Season 7, Episode 2: Nothing Is Certain | WIRED

Luc Besson’s newest seems like a critical and commercial dud. But that’s how his other movies started out too.

Sorgente: We Know How ‘Valerian’ Got Made—But Not Why It Failed | WIRED

 

Virtual reality has the potential to add value to people’s media habits, with certain kinds of experiences having a very positive impact but it needs to fit into people’s lives easily, and be as simple and intuitive as watching TV says BBC research.

Sorgente: Virtual reality needs to simplify to be successful | Infrastructure | News | Rapid TV News

The streaming service is offering money and creative freedom—and from a look at its first two projects, it won’t be stopping anytime soon.

Sorgente: Netflix’s Secret Weapon Isn’t Reboots—It’s Genre Movies | WIRED

The advertisements of the future will be immersive and almost game like. And they’re nearly here.

Sorgente: VR Ads Are Almost Here. Don’t Act Surprised | WIRED

The auteur injects indie spirit into an insanely ambitious, Euro-flavored spectacle.

Sorgente: Director Luc Besson Tests the Outer Limits With His New Film, Sci-Fi Epic Valerian | WIRED

Ready to watch your favorite podcasts? You might not even need those earbuds.

Sorgente: Where Is Hollywood Looking for the Next Hit? Podcasts | WIRED

The problem with revenge is that it’s never enough. The past, as the women of Westeros know, is forever.

Sorgente: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: When Vengeance Becomes Your God | WIRED

With the Stark sisters, the Mother of Dragons, and a few others, we could see an era of total female rule in Westeros.

Sorgente: This Is How *Game of Thrones* Ends in Total Matriarchy | WIRED

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‘Game of Thrones’ moves its monarchs into place as the Season Seven premiere kicks off the beginning of the end with a bang. Read our recap.

Sorgente: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season Premiere Recap: The North Remembers – Rolling Stone

 

Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford share tense scenes in eerie new trailer for ‘Blade Runner: 2049.’

Sorgente: Watch Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford in Eerie ‘Blade Runner: 2049’ Trailer – Rolling Stone

John Lasseter is tearing up. His eyes are shining and his lashes are moist. He reaches out a warm hand to cover mine and looks deep into my eyes as he talks. He’s feeling things, powerful things, and it’s impossible not to feel them too. From any other studio executive, this would come across as insincere, even manipulative, but Lasseter, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar, is quite possibly the most earnest, emotional, enthusiastic man working in Hollywood. So check your cynical heart at the door of his toy-crammed office. His emotions—and his tears—are real.

Sorgente: Big Hero 6 Proves It: Pixar’s Gurus Have Brought the Magic Back to Disney Animation | WIRED

The company owns so many universes that, as D23 Expo shows, its theme-park adaptation options may never end.

Sorgente: Disney’s Star Wars Theme Park Attraction Is the Next Worldbuilding Frontier | WIRED