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Affleck’s gothic Company receives rapturous reception at Venice premiere
Casey Affleck’s gothic thriller “Company” received a four-minute standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Tuesday night, marking a triumphant showing for a director whose career had largely stalled following past misconduct allegations. Affleck wrote and directed the film, which was produced by his brother Ben Affleck’s company Artist Equity and is now…
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Paramount Argues That the States Post a $1.88 Billion Bond to Cover Warner Bros. Bills
Paramount is pressing California, eleven other states and the Writers Guild of America to post a $1.88 billion bond to cover the financial fallout of their lawsuits delaying its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio argues the litigation has already pushed the deal months past its planned late-September closing date, forcing it…
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Paramount Warns CA AG Bonta & WGA Of WBD Merger Fallout & “Financial Consequences If Their Challenge Ultimately Fails”
Paramount Skydance has escalated its legal pressure on California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the Writers Guild of America and 11 other states, warning of severe “financial consequences” if their antitrust challenge to its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros Discovery ultimately fails. In a tense court filing, Paramount is again pushing for the states and…
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Casey Affleck’s ‘Company’ Earns 4.5-Minute Ovation At Venice World Premiere
Casey Affleck’s new film Company received a four-and-a-half-minute standing ovation at its world premiere in Venice’s Sala Grande, though Affleck and the cast departed while the applause was still going. The horror-drama, which Affleck directed and co-wrote with Ron Hansen, marks his return to the festival and continues a run of high-profile Venice premieres this…
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Casey Affleck and Nick Nolte Get Emotional as ‘Company’ Debuts in Venice
Casey Affleck’s gothic thriller “Company” premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night to a four-minute standing ovation, with the director and star Nick Nolte visibly moved by the reception. Ben Affleck, who produced the film through his company Artist Equity, attended the screening and applauded warmly as cast members including Indiana Affleck, Emily…
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South Park creators mock Trump’s Lake Ontario rename and company compliance in mock statement
“South Park” co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a mock statement satirising Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” and the compliance of tech firms and studio bosses with the change. Posted on X, the statement jokily declared that “South Park” itself was being renamed “SOUTH AMERICA”, thanking Apple and Google for…
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Sony isn’t phasing out discs quite as quickly as we thought
Sony has clarified that reports of its last remaining disc-manufacturing plant winding down production almost entirely were mistaken, though the company’s plan to end new PlayStation disc production by January 2028 remains unchanged. The Thalgau, Austria plant run by Sony DADC will see only a modest decline in output rather than the near-total collapse initially…
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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
OpenAI says it has solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems, using around 10,000 AI agents working simultaneously for 88 hours. The claim has been overshadowed by controversy after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleged OpenAI sped up its effort after learning that he and an Anthropic researcher were close to announcing…
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The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX
The Exploration Company (TEC), a European space startup, has raised $450 million in what it calls the largest-ever Series C funding round by a European space firm, as investors bet on rivals to challenge SpaceX’s dominance in reusable spacecraft. The Munich-founded, multi-country company aims to build a reusable European heavy-lift launcher, tapping into growing concerns…