A group of documentary filmmakers, producers, and archivists has written a series of guidelines on how they believe filmmakers should — and should not — use generative AI in their documentary movies. While the AI guidelines for many entertainment folks may go something like this: “never, ever, a billion times no,” the reality is that …
When screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides was asked about the complex layers of meaning running through his adaptation of Mickey Spillane‘s classic crime novel “Kiss Me Deadly,” he denied having any conscious intention of exploring the post-WWII anxieties that gave the film its jittery core. “People ask me about the hidden meanings in the script,” he told …
A rising star in the Chinese hyperpop scene, Billionhappy is making his mark on the Shanghai underground with blissed-out tracks that are garnering tens of millions of streams. Having toured with the likes of Beijing rapper Blood Boiz, his music is a spacey restructuring of classic Chinese pop songs blitzed together with glitchy beats and …
Tyler Perry announced he’s putting an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio on hold after seeing a demonstration of OpenAI’s Sora technology, saying that its potential is ‘shocking to me’ Hollywood heavyweight Tyler Perry has announced that he’s putting his Atlanta studio’s $800 million expansion on hold indefinitely because of “mind-blowing” developments in artificial …
The show’s fourth season examines the strange, symbiotic relationship between our two most basic desires: ‘innovation and getting off’ Over the last four decades, the internet has transformed the way we have, talk about, and view sex. What’s less spoken about is the symbiosis of this relationship. Sex has always been a driving force in …
As Sundance deals slowly start to pile up, one U.S. Dramatic Competition title still searching for distribution is Sam and Andy Zuchero’s “Love Me.” Starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun in both voice and live-action form, the sci-fi romance centers on a satellite and an ocean-bound buoy who become increasingly sentient and fall in love …
2023 was the year of the AI villain in Hollywood, with blockbusters like “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” and “The Creator” portraying artificial intelligence as a deadly force that could ultimately destroy humanity. But married filmmaking duo Andy and Sam Zuchero decided to take a different approach with their sprawling romance “Love Me,” …
It’s hard to say what’s more impressive: That a married filmmaking duo made a romantic drama that covers 13.7 billion years and climaxes with a buoy fucking a satellite, or that Sam and Andy Zuchero’s debut feature — a tedious movie that gradually squanders all of the goodwill earned by the creative ambition behind it …
With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies I am sitting on the tube on my way to a casting when opposite me I see an ad for an insurance company. The model …
My heart’s pounding more than normal as I wait for Jia Tolentino to pick up my call. There’s something about interviewing another writer that feels specifically terrifying. Are they going to think my questions are dumb? Are they going to be quietly editing my ramblings in their head? Are they going to read the resulting …