Investors are climbing on board companies like Ecco, an AI startup that helps people find titles across multiple streamers using queries like 'find me all the shows about F1'. It has raised $7 million from Ben Silverman, Shaquille O'Neal, and others.
"Future generations have come to accept on-screen images of the past as simply the way things were, but to believe people were naive rather than part of a heavily policed system is to misunderstand where popular art comes from."
When I started to get involved in the video game business, I picked up Crash Bandicoot and started asking some of the movie studios if they were interested in turning that property into a movie, but I was treated like, 'hey, video games is like a toy business.' They didn't really take it seriously.
Just found out my Tia Becky passed away, and we literally just saw her on Father's Day. So grateful the kids got to hear her sing. and also that I didn't listen to her and secretly recorded the moment. Her most famous song is titled 'Llorando' which is named after Roy Orbison's song 'Crying' which I'm doing right now as I type this out. Thank you for sharing your beautiful gift with the world. We love you.
"We all have a way we present in the world. The perception of me is that I am verbal, intellectual. My voice is lower, and I don't have Botox, so I tend to play older than I am."
In a city where eloteros typically dominate Latino neighborhoods, the Caselin family has revitalized the Hollywood area by introducing a beloved Mexican tradition—elotes and esquites—serving them in a charmingly modern way.
"When I said, 'I think it's only fair because my character became as popular as [Spacey's],' they said, 'We can't pay you the same as an actor..."
Casting David Corenswet as Clark Kent and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane marks a distinctive choice, showcasing a refreshing energetic approach to the iconic characters in a lighter Superman narrative.
Zelocchi documented every threat and handed evidence to U.S. Marshals, refusing to cave to the cybercriminals who sought to eliminate him and steal his Bitcoin wallet.
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote the original 2004 movie from which the Harold & Kumar franchise was born, and said in a statement that "We're fired up to bring Harold and Kumar back in a return to the unapologetically R-rated, smoke-filled chaos that started it all. It's high time they puff and pass their wisdom onto a new generation. Just don't tell their kids."
"Chris Nolan brought me Inception first, and I didn't get it. I've never said that out loud. Now that I think about it, it's those movies that go into those alternate realities... they don't pitch well."
Never before has there been a better use of the famous Star Wars crawl - except, of course, the opening of Spaceballs. On June 12, comedy legend Mel Brooks posted a clip to X summarizing the last 38 years of blockbuster cinema in the style of the classic sci-fi opening, and it culminated in a thrilling reveal.