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Spoiler Alert: This story contains major spoilers for the ending of “Missing,” currently playing in theaters.

“Missing,” the latest release from Sony Pictures Entertainment, is told entirely through computer screens and smartphones.

Storm Reid is June, a daughter using modern technology to track down her mom, played by Nia Long, who has gone missing thousands of miles away in Colombia.

Nicholas Johnson and Will Merrick’s follow-up to the 2018 thriller “Searching” posed a challenge for editors Austin Keeling and Arielle Zakowsk about how to tell the story and create tension as June races against the clock to find her mother.

Says Keeling, “Arielle and I took screenshots on our computers and put together the whole movie as a temp version. We were able to play around through the editing process and choose how to cover June’s laptop, how to tell it in the most effective way.”

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It looks like we have a Pokémon master on our hands. Can we get a round of applause for New Yorker, Nick Johnson? Possibly a physical therapist for his predictably aching hands, arms and legs? Johnson notes he is the first person to collect every Pokémon for Pokémon Go in the states, according to his Reddit post. This means he successfully filled his Pokédex with all 142 Pokémon known to reside in the United States. Technically he is still missing a few little buddies in his Pokédex but relax. He's still a hero in the eyes of those who haven't accused him of cheating. Can't the man just live? The Pokémon still on the loose are either roaming around internationally or...

James Gandolfini‘s “Big Dead Place,” the HBO drama the actor was developing before his death, has been revived with a new director-executive producer attached, TheWrap has learned. “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire” director Tim Van Patten will direct and executive produce the HBO adaptation of Nicholas Johnson’s memoir, which was originally put into development in 2011. Set in Antarctica, “Big Dead Place” documents Johnson’s time working for the U.S. Antarctic Program and the effects that staying in a remote, frozen area for extended periods of time had on his psyche. Also read: Hollywood Gathers to Pay Respects...

Big Dead Place, a passion project of the late James Gandolfini, is inching closer to fruition. The drama, originally set up at HBO by Gandolfini in 2011 as a potential starring vehicle for him, remains in development but has started to heat up. The project, inspired by Nicholas Johnson's memoir about his stint working for the U.S. Antarctic Program, now has Boardwalk Empire director/executive producer Tim Van Patten attached as executive producer and director. Van Patten…...