Entertainment

Meta‘s unauthorized AI chatbots of virtual celebrities including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez were “flirty” and “routinely made sexual advances,”…
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Macon Blair saw the controversial 1984 film “The Toxic Avenger” as many Millennials did: on a contraband videotape courtesy of a friend’s older brother. The 12-year-old Blair was…
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Ecuadoran filmmaker Ana Cristina Barragán is set for a busy week on the Lido, where she’s launching her third feature, “The Ivy,” in the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons competition…
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Kids and preteens may reinvigorate the theatrical movie business, at least according to a new study by entertainment researchers NRG. The report found that Gen Alpha, which…
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The screenplays of Moroccan multi-hyphenate Maryam Touzani (“Adam,” “The Blue Caftan”) always start from a personal place. Her latest, “Calle Málaga,” which screens in Venice and…
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Light Dox has acquired sales rights to Lana Daher‘s documentary “Do You Love Me,” which has its premiere in Venice Days, a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival. Variety debuts an…
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TV buyers will soon have yet another option when weighing what smart TV to purchase. Digital advertising giant The Trade Desk has been developing a new operating system, known…
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Geena Rocero is making her mark behind the camera. The four-time Emmy-nominated director’s scripted directorial debut, sci-fi short “Dolls,” has dropped its first trailer ahead of…
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Park Chan-wook‘s latest film “No Other Choice” follows a middle-aged man (“Squid Game” star Lee Byung-hun) who goes to desperate lengths to gain employment after being unexpectedly…
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“Heidi: The Rescue of the Lynx,” co-produced by Germany’s Studio 100, Belgium’s Hotel Hungarian and Spain’s 3Doubles – with much of the work carried out at its Bizkaia-based…
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