You guess is as good as mine as to why a film about blockchain technology needs to be filmed this way, but Doug Liman has been connected with plenty of unusual projects in the past, including a rumored Tom Cruise film that was supposed to film on the International Space Station.

Wondering who will win the 2017 Oscars? Instead of turning to industry experts, film critics, or polls, you can try something else this year: Artificial intelligence. A startup called Unanimous A.I. has been making predictions--like who will win the Superbowl, March Madness, US presidential debates, the Kentucky Derby--for the last two years. It uses a software platform called UNU to assemble people at their computers, who make a real-time prediction together. UNU's algorithm is built to harness the concept of "swarm" intelligence--the power of a group to make an intelligent, collective decision.

Alberto Arvelo is used to hiring composers to set music to his films. The Venezuelan director's most recent feature, "Libertador," employed none other than Gustavo Dudamel -- in his debut film score -- for that task. The roles were reversed, however, on Arvelo's new assignment: setting film to Dudamel-led concerts of Joseph Haydn's epic oratorio, "The Creation." "It's exactly what should happen with a good music in film," Arvelo said. "Good music is something that you can feel, that can create something that's not there. Basically, if music is there, it's because we have to add something to that moment, to provoke this combustion in some way. This is more or less the same concept, but exactly in a reverse way."