Charles Pulliam-Moore

Film & TV Reporter

Charles Pulliam-Moore is a Film & TV writer for The Verge focusing on genre entertainment and how disparate, fandom-specific conversations coalesce into what we know as “the discourse.” Before coming to The Verge, Charles wrote about comic books, labor, race and a multitude of other topics at io9 and Gizmodo, and his writing has also been featured on NPR’s Code Switch blog. When he isn’t reading the source material for a piece or decompressing with a comfort horror movie, Charles is usually somewhere on his bike.

Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI

Charles Pulliam-MooreSep 1

MrBeast’s fans aren’t too hot on reading, apparently.

HarperCollins probably dropped a pretty penny to get Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson and James Patterson to collaborate on their newly released novel, The Most Dangerous Games. But Semafor reports that the publisher might have a hard time making that money back due to the book’s very, very low pre-sales.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly highlighted the book’s pre-sale numbers rather than post-launch sales.

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Charles Pulliam-MooreAug 31

It’s Mimikyu’s turn to be a movie star.

During the closing ceremony of this year’s Pokémon World Championships, The Pokémon Company dropped a surprise teaser trailer for Pokémon: Wild Card — a new feature-length movie from studio CloverWorks that appears to be about the trading card game. The film’s set to release some time in 2027.

Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters

As AI infiltrates the electronic dance music scene, a callout culture is brewing.

Charles Pulliam-MooreAug 29

Charles Pulliam-MooreAug 26

Category is: Gene Wilder resurrected with AI.

The latest trailer for Netflix’s Willy Wonka-inspired reality competition show features a lot more voiceover from an AI-generated clone of Gene Wilder. The AI of it all was already ridiculous, but it’s even weirder to hear how much the AI voice sounds like Wilder doing an impression of RuPaul explaining Drag Race challenges.

Charles Pulliam-MooreAug 21

The DCU’s Jimmy Olsen spin-off show is a go at HBO Max.

After months of buzz about a potential Superman spin-off show starring the Man of Steel’s best friend, Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo), HBO Max has confirmed that The People v. Gorilla Grodd — a half-hour comedy / “true” crime docudrama about a superintelligent ape (Jimmy Tatro) accused of murder — has been ordered to series.

HBO Max Orders New Comedy Series THE PEOPLE V. GORILLA GRODD

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