If you spend much time on social media, you’ll have surely noticed the surge in AI-generated video filling up your feed. We were promised superintelligence but instead got “AI slop” – clips-for-clicks of people and pets doing funny, diverting, but ultimately pointless things. Or worse. Deepfake videos of politicians or celebrities have improved in line…
CNN — Ben Affleck is sounding off on how movies are being made in today’s age of Netflix and other streaming platforms, which offer an ever-expanding glut of content. The actor, producer and director, who is starting a new film studio of his own with friend and colleague Matt Damon alongside RedBird Capital Partners, shared…
CNN — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have an early Christmas gift for their supporters. A new trailer for their Netflix docuseries, “Harry & Meghan,” was released Monday, along with a schedule for when the episodes will stream. Volume I will include episodes 1-3 and will stream on December 8, and Volume II with…
CNN — Axl Rose is ending a 30-year Guns N’ Roses tradition. The band’s frontman recently posted a note saying on social media that he would no longer be tossing his microphone into the crowd during their concerts after it came to his attention that a fan may have been hurt at their recent show…
CNN — Adam Sandler will always Chris Farley. More than twenty years after Farley’s death, Sandler still gets sad when he sings the “Chris Farley Song,” a song he wrote for his late friend and comedian, who died in December 1997 of a drug overdose at age 33. Sandler told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast…
CNN — After a 20th-anniversary tour of Jill Scott’s chart-topping album, “Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol I” was forced to end prematurely due to the pandemic, it will resume. Scott has announced that she’ll be back on the road next year for shows during which she will play the album in full,…
CNN — It turns out that Gabourey Sidibe has been even busier than previously thought since the beginning of the pandemic. Not only did the Oscar-nominated actress get engaged, she also secretly got married well over a year ago. The “breaking news” was revealed during a lively interview on “Live with Kelly and Ryan” on…
CNN — Global pop sensation Blackpink have been chosen as Time magazine’s 2022 Entertainer of the Year, making the four-woman band the second K-pop artists to earn the title, after BTS in 2020. Selected by YG Entertainment, a big South Korean record label that screens performers for star quality and trains them intensively, the quartet…
CNN — Actress Kirstie Alley, star of the big and small screens known for her Emmy-winning role on “Cheers” and films like “Look Who’s Talking,” has died after a brief battle with cancer, her children True and Lillie Parker announced on her social media. She was 71. “We are sad to inform you that our…
CNN — Neil Diamond sang “Sweet Caroline” at the Broadway opening of his musical” A Beautiful Noise,” five years after retiring due to his Parkinson’s diagnosis. Diamond stopped touring in January 2018, but brought the audience to their feet with his rendition of “Caroline” at the Broadhurst Theatre on Sunday, with his wife Katie McNeil…
