The new Street Fighter movie is giving fans an unusual way to imitate Guile without spending a fortune on hairspray.
The new Street Fighter movie is giving fans an unusual way to imitate Guile without spending a fortune on hairspray.
While doing press for his upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, filmmaker James Cameron spoke out against generative AI. “They can make up an actor. They can make up a performance from scratch with a text prompt,” the director said on CBS Sunday Morning. “That’s horrifying to me.”
Move over, superheroes. The next big entertainment era may have less capes and a whole lot more talking cartoon animals. It’s the 1930s all over again!
The Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski is once again taking aim at right-leaning audiences—this time by declaring that conservatives who use the term “red-pilled” are essentially embracing fascism. The comments surfaced during a recent interview highlighted by The Post Millennial, generating fresh debate about who really owns the cultural language surrounding The Matrix and whether its creators understand the modern meaning of the phrase they helped inspire.
The Wicked franchise has just released its two-part movie adaption. Now the book universe is getting an addition.
In a Hollywood landscape where taking even a neutral position on President Donald Trump can get an actor quietly iced out of projects, Avengers, Deadpool 2, and Dune star Josh Brolin just lobbed a truth grenade into the industry echo chamber.
Variety has published yet another report asserting that Paramount Skydance’s latest all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery is backed by Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, and Abu Dhabi’s ADIA. The timing is striking—not only because the Warner Bros. bidding war is heating up, but because Paramount already blasted this exact story last month.
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For those of you who, like me, had only really heard about AI and movies as a sort of nebulous, “someday in the future” concept … holy guacamole, the future is now (almost).
For months, industry watchers have speculated about who will finally succeed Bob Iger at Disney, and a clear frontrunner has now emerged. According to a detailed report from The Wall Street Journal, Josh D’Amaro—the chairman of Disney Experiences—has become the internal favorite to step into the top job as Disney CEO.
The Netflix Warner Bros. saga took another sharp turn this weekend as Reuters confirmed the streamer submitted a mostly-cash bid in the second round of binding offers for WBD. However, the streaming giant may still face enormous obstacles—even if its bid is competitive. According to reporting from the New York Post, high-level government officials have already indicated that they would oppose any Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds.
China’s long-standing love affair with talking-animal films has become one of the most reliable patterns in the global box office, repeatedly turning anthropomorphic stories into runaway hits. Disney first witnessed the phenomenon in a major way with The Lion King (2019), which roared to over $120 million in China thanks to its photorealistic animal cast and nostalgic appeal.
Discussions surrounding Ariana Grande and her health picked up again the last few months as online memes about her and Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo circulated across social platforms. The renewed attention prompted Grande to reshare a past message on her Instagram Story addressing commentary about her appearance—without directly responding to any specific post or meme.
What’s one more legacy sequel? Macaulay Culkin, who famously played Kevin McCallister in the first two Home Alone movies, says he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to returning for a third true Home Alone sequel (we’ll pretend the others never happened).