Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney will tackle ancient Greece in his next series. Netflix has given a straight-to-series order for Alexander, which will center on the relationship between the future ruler known as Alexander the Great and his tutor, Aristotle. The show is based on Annabel Lyon’s 2009 novel The Golden Mean. Tierney will write…
The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will receive an honorary Palme d’Or in recognition of his life’s work at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Cannes announced the honor on Thursday, praising the New Zealand filmmaker for “a body of work that blends Hollywood blockbusters and films d’auteur with extraordinary artistic vision and technological…
Grant Gee is not a fan of music biopics. “You can tell from the work I’ve done in the past I’m really interested in musicians and how their lives interact with their art,” says Gee, whose filmography includes acclaimed documentaries on iconic British bands — Meeting People Is Easy (1998), about Radiohead, and Joy Division…
The boys are back for their fifth and final season. Thursday, Prime Video dropped the official trailer for the upcoming season of The Boys. In the new teaser, Homelander (Antony Starr) is chasing immortality through the use of V-One, the first reiteration of Compound-V, the serum which produces supes. The trailer also confirms that Gen…
For the third year, Good Energy has released its Climate Reality Check report on the season’s Academy Award-nominated films to determine if climate change was represented in the work. And this year, a record number of films passed the test. Good Energy is a story consultancy that aims to increase climate change visibility in TV…
In a bid to stave off a major investigation by the European Commission, Meta said on Thursday that it would allow AI companies to offer their chatbots on WhatsApp via its business API for the next 12 months in Europe. The move comes a month after the European Commission told Meta that it intended to…
Roblox is using AI to alter the content of chat messages on its platform in real time using a new feature rolling out today. Real-time chat rephrasing goes beyond the current filtering for banned language, which replaces certain words and phrases with “#” symbols. Now, Roblox says those words and phrases can be “translated into…
Google “at least” $50 million through 2030 on “projects designed to eliminate superpollutants.” The company will be joined by a handful of other companies including Amazon and Salesforce in the newly formed . In total, these companies have committed $100 million to the project, hoping to “accelerate the reduction” of superpollutants like methane, black carbon…
The Canadian government says that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has agreed to take steps to immediately strengthen safety protocols, . This follows a at a high school in which OpenAI and suspended his account, but did not alert authorities. These changes look to primarily involve law enforcement, with commitments to notify police about potentially suspicious…
