Storytelling goes Hollywood, digital, and downright dramatic
Digest Newsletter
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Jun 6, 2026
Storytelling goes Hollywood, digital, and downright dramatic
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Stories are stretching every muscle today — from Scorsese’s mob canvas to video games and even a buzzer-beater that reads like a short film. This batch celebrates how authors, auteurs, athletes, and platforms keep reinventing narrative across formats with equal parts ambition and audacity.
Storytelling
From Scorsese’s mob epic to Tolkien’s crown — storytelling everywhere
Martin Scorsese is back with a Netflix mob epic starring Gerard Butler and Oscar Isaac, a high-profile example of auteur-driven film landing on streaming platforms (release June 24), while readers crowned J.R.R. [P]Tolkien the greatest English-language novelist in a Guardian poll, reminding creators that mythic scope still thrills audiences (poll results). Meanwhile, storytelling is leaping mediums: Owen Dennis is adapting Among Us into a Paramount+ animated horror-comedy and Paramount’s studio unveiled a AAA game of The Last Ronin, signaling that games now carry serialized, cinematic narratives, and even sports offer instant story arcs — Victor Wembanyama’s missed buzzer in the NBA Finals read like a tragic short (Wembanyama shot).