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Priyanka Chopra Jonas on making a film about love and caste inequality
Actress and producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas has spoken to the BBC about executive producing The Cycle of Love, a new film exploring both romance and caste discrimination in India. She told culture correspondent Noor Nanji she was immediately captivated by the true story at the heart of the project, which she believed deserved to be…
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Apple Music Will Also Now Label AI-Generated Songs
Apple Music will begin labelling AI-generated songs “later this year,” joining a growing list of streaming platforms responding to the rise of generative AI in music. According to industry emails reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, the tags will appear as “Made With AI Labels,” requiring content providers to add AI Transparency Tags wherever…
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Movie Theater Owner: What Worries Me About the War on Paramount and Warner Bros.
In an opinion piece, Cory Jacobson, owner of the Phoenix Theatres cinema chain, argues that legal and regulatory opposition to the proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery could ultimately harm cinemas more than the deal itself. He contends that critics focus only on the risks of increased studio concentration while ignoring the…
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SXSW True Crime Doc ‘I Got Bombed At Harvey’s’ Scores North American Deal
Jolt.film has acquired all North American rights to “I Got Bombed at Harvey’s,” a true-crime documentary about the 1980 bombing of Harvey’s Resort Hotel in Lake Tahoe, which sparked a $3 million extortion plot and a major FBI manhunt. The deal, revealed exclusively by Deadline, secures the film a theatrical and digital release and comes…
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God Of War TV Show Has Found Its New Kratos, And It’s Dave Bautista
Prime Video’s God of War series has a new actor playing the stoic god-killer Kratos, and as previously reported, it is indeed Dave Bautista. After the original actor cast for the role, Ryan Hurst, suffered a bicep tear during filming that forced him to leave the role, Amazon and Sony moved quickly to find a replacement.…
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Sir Anthony Hopkins often ‘returns’ to Wales on Google Maps
Sir Anthony Hopkins has revealed that he mentally “returns” to Wales almost every day, often by browsing his old neighbourhood on Google Maps’ street photographs. The 88-year-old Port Talbot-born actor, speaking to ITV Wales from his Los Angeles home, said he now feels too old to physically walk the streets of Margam again, so uses…
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RFK Jr. Blasts CNN’s Erin Burnett as Having ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ Over Report Finding His ‘Affordable’ Family Meal Costs 3.6 Times What Health Secretary Claimed
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused CNN anchor Erin Burnett of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” after the network aired a report challenging his claims about the affordability of a recipe featured on his YouTube cooking show, “The Real Food Show”. The row highlights ongoing tension between Kennedy and mainstream media outlets…
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10 Books That Were Way More Intense Than Their Movie Adaptations
This Collider feature lists ten books whose source material contains darker, more graphic or emotionally intense content than the film adaptations they inspired. The article explains that adaptations often soften or trim material for practical and rating reasons, since prose has no visual limits or age restrictions while films must stay within certain content boundaries…
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It’s Officially the End of an Era for Apple TV’s 10/10 Sci-Fi Epic
Apple TV’s science fiction drama For All Mankind has wrapped filming on its sixth and final season, bringing an end to a series that helped establish the streamer as a leading destination for prestige sci-fi. Co-created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, the show launched alongside Apple TV itself in 2019 and…