579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
If There's a Thor 5, Taika Waititi Won't Be Part of It
Gizmodo,
In one of those rare cases where the rumor mills are actually accurate, director Taika Waititi confirmed that if Marvel Studios decides to make a fifth Thor movie, he won’t be involved. “I wouldn’t know if that’s [a Thor 5 happening] accurate,” Waititi said to Business Insider. “I know that I won’t be involved.” Read more...
The He-Man Movie Might Be Close to Finding a New Home
Godzilla looms large in a tense new clip from Minus One. Meet Chris Pratt’s Garfield, who sounds an awful lot like Chris Pratt’s Mario, among other Chris Pratts. A Voyager icon reconfirms their return for Star Trek Prodigy. Plus, Doctor Who adds another mystery guest star. Spoilers, away! Read more...
Google's New AI Weatherman Will Leave Forecasters in the Dust
Finally, a robot to tell you which jacket you should wear to the function. Google DeepMind, the search giant’s AI-centric brain trust, just announced a new weather forecasting model that beats traditional systems more than 90% of the time. Named GraphCast, the machine learning model promises 10-day predictions that… Read more...
FBoy Island is like douchebag Agatha Christie (and we're hooked)
AV Club,
“Every murderer is somebody’s old friend.”—Agatha Christie Read more...
YouTube Cracks Down on Future 'AI Drakes' With Updated Policies
YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists. Earlier this year, “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song that sounds like a track made by Drake and The Weeknd, created with generative AI, garnered over 600,000 plays and was even considered for a … Read more...
What's right and what's wrong with Marvel today?
It’s not much of a surprise that The Marvels didn’t fare so well at the domestic box office in its first weekend. Sure, it came in at No. 1 with $47 million, but that’s the lowest opening of any film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Factor in the $41.4 million it made internationally, and that’s still less than $90… Read more...
The 21 best gifts for movie lovers this holiday season
For those of you who are more organized than the rest of us and like to get your holiday shopping done at any other time than approximately 12 hours before the gift-giving occasion of your choice, we’ve put together some easy-to-recommend gifts for true film fans. We’ve got everything from cute little vinyl figures… Read more...
Elle Fanning gives The Great a final “Huzzah!”
Canceled in the middle of SAG-AFTRA’s now-successful multi-month work stoppage, Hulu’s historical satire The Great went down without a word from its cast. Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult were unable to discuss AMPTP projects while the strike continued, meaning that they couldn’t speak to the sudden demise of their… Read more...