The Palm Springs International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through Jan. 12, has become an increasingly important stop on the film awards season circuit —to the point that much of the industry now cuts short its holiday break in order to rush to the Coachella Valley right after New Year’s Day. Palm…
The next horror movie from André Ovredal is coming into focus. Paramount has revealed the film is called Passenger, and has set a plum summer theatrical date of May 29 for the project, which stars Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo. Plot details are being kept in luggage. Walter Hamada is producing via 18Hz,…
Nick Johnson,Crans-Montanaand Anna Lamche Footage shows person trying to put out flames during deadly Swiss bar fire A fire at a bar in a Swiss ski resort appears to have been caused by sparklers placed on bottles of champagne that came “too close to the ceiling”, authorities said. Forty people died after the blaze in…
Victoria Jones, the daughter of Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, who appeared alongside her father in multiple films in the 1990s and on red carpets, was found dead in San Francisco on New Year’s Day, according to local authorities. Jones, 34, was found unresponsive at the Fairmont Hotel after paramedics were called, according to a…
India has ordered Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after users and lawmakers flagged the generation of “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women created using the tool. On Friday, India’s IT ministry issued the order directing Musk’s X to take corrective action on Grok, including…
xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to…
Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for the theft of billions of dollars in Bitcoin, hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is free. Lichtenstein announced his release in a post on X, specifically crediting Trump: “Thanks to President Trump’s First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. I remain committed…
The second installment of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things began with “The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler,” but those episodes were really the arrival of Nell Fisher. In a large, familiar ensemble, the 14-year-old British actress has burst on the scene as a driving force of the Netflix phenomenon’s swan song. The little…
Cinemark is giving AMC CEO Adam Aron’s love for popcorn a real run for its money. This year’s National Popcorn Day event at Cinemark is being expanded to two days (from one), and the mountains of popcorn are being piled even higher — for certain Lowe’s customers, that is. It’s important to note high up…
2025 was the year that advertising dealt with shocks to the system: AI disruption reverberated across every part of the ecosystem, Omnicom completed its $13 billion megadeal for IPG, creating a marketing Goliath, and tariff uncertainty threw certain sectors into chaos. But when it was all said and done, the ad business grew in 2025,…
