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Morgan Freeman is speaking out again on AI. Freeman recently spoke with The Guardian about his thoughts on AI and how its trying to use his voice with permission. “I’m a little PO’d, you know,” he said. “I’m like any other actor: don’t mimic me with falseness. I don’t appreciate it and I get paid…
The Walt Disney Co. plans to increase its spending on content next year by $1 billion to a total of $24 billion, underscoring how the competition for consumer attention remains fierce — and expensive. “We expect to invest approximately $24 billion in content across Entertainment and Sports in fiscal 2026, an increase of $1 billion…
Right before it jettisons most of its cable channels, NBCUniversal will launch a new one. The entertainment giant says that it will launch NBC Sports Network next week on Nov. 17, seeking a linear home for the slate of live games that it will have on the Peacock streaming service. NBCSN will launch first on…
When Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park burst onto screens in 1993, audiences were swept away (to the tune of around $914 million) by its dinosaurs, drama — and location. Jurassic Park looked like it had been shot on the far reaches of another world entirely, but what many of the film’s scenes were showcasing — as they…
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Baker will head the features competition jury at the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival. Baker, the indie auteur behind the critically acclaimed films Tangerine, The Florida Project and Red Rocket, and who won Academy Awards for best picture, best director, best original screenplay and best editing for Anora, follows Spike Lee…
Streaming continues to become a more potent force on The Walt Disney Co.’s balance sheet, as the company’s fiscal Q4 earnings report demonstrates. Disney released its latest quarterly earnings early Thursday morning, reporting revenues of $22.5 billion, essentially flat from last year, and segment operating income of $3.5 billion, down 5 percent from a year…
In 2018, Formula One‘s social media footprint sat at a healthy 18.7 million followers. A large portion of today’s grid were just making a name for themselves in the fastest motorsport competition in the world —others were still, well, children — and only around 13 percent of that global fanbase was under the age of…
After years of false starts and several postponements, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has an opening date. The new cultural institution designed to celebrate illustrated storytelling, founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026. “This is a museum of the people’s…
Netflix has picked up a drama series about a high school hockey team in Minnesota, with Michelle Monaghan set to star. The untitled series, which has an eight-episode order, comes from creator Nick Naveda and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps Entertainment. Bridget Bedard (Love Life, Ramy) will be the showrunner, and Trey Edward Shults is set…
Nielsen has tapped Peter Naylor as its first chief client officer, charged with working with advertisers and publishers across traditional and digital channels. Naylor, who will report to Nielsen CEO Karthik Rao, comes to the TV measurement firm after working at Netflix as vp of global advertising sales, leading sales for the Americas at Snap…
