Higgsfield is using Cully Hill Boys to show you how to prompt up your own movie.
It remains to be seen whether people will actually flock to theaters to see Coyote vs. Acme when it hits theaters on August 28th, but this early wave of mostly positive reviews makes it sound like David Zaslav really tried (and failed) to deprive us of a banger.
Seedance 2.5’s ability to generate longer clips that can be carefully edited without starting over scratch are two of the model’s biggest improvements over Seedance 2.0. But Deadline reports, that the new model also much better at detecting and refusing to comply when it’s been prompted to generate outputs based on copyrighted material.
Though the idea of a Star Wars and Marvel crossover comic sounds kind of terrible, that isn’t stopping Kevin Smith and artist David Marquez from working on Hope Assembles — a five-issue limited series that will “anchor the Star Wars franchise firmly in Marvel’s 616 universe” remix aspects of A New Hope.
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David Ellison has reportedly decided to begin the process of moving Paramount out of California on October 1st if state attorney general Rob Bonta refuses to settle. As Variety notes, October 1st is when Paramount has to begin paying Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders $7 million per day in fees as the companies await their antitrust trial set for next March.
Google-backed AI startup Promise has brought on Backrooms executive producer Chris White to develop Touch Grass, a dead internet theory-inspired horror about a tech worker who discovers a secret digital reality populated by strange copes of people from the real world.
Though there were rumblings David Fincher was developing an English language Squid Game spinoff for Netflix, The Playlist reports that those plans have been scrapped.
Almost 20 years after The X-Files: I Want to Believe made its theatrical debut, c0-writer / director (and X-Files franchise creator) Chris Carter is back with a new extended, R-rated cut of the film that will pit Mulder and Scully against a kind of Frankenstein on Hulu beginning August 14th.
While none of the of vigilante influencers inspired by NBC’s To Catch a Predator have put out content worth watching, the new trailer for A24’s Primetime starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen makes the movie look like it’ll be a knockout when it premieres on September 25th.
