مسار منفصل للأخبار السياسية والعراقية والعالمية يظهر فور الجلب، بينما تبقى التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي في الواجهة الرئيسية.
TV audiences were high on the Upside Down this season. “Stranger Things” ended its final season with an average of 32.9 million viewers, easily making it the most-watched series of the just concluded 2025 26 TV frame. The Netflix thriller averaged that number over 35 days, per Nielsen’s multiplatform ranker. Netflix also scored the previous […]
“Euphoria” ended with 8.7 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max in three days, a slight increase from the Season 3 premiere. Though Warner Bros. Discovery did not provide viewership totals for each week of “Euphoria” Season 3, the company reported that that the final season’s first episode hit 8.5 million viewers in three days, […]
Helen Mirren, Russell Crowe, Scott Eastwood, and Gore Verbinsky are among top talents set to attend Italy’s upcoming Taormina Film Festival that has unveiled the lineup for its upcoming 72nd edition that will mix crowdpleasers with more esoteric quality fare. Crowe, as previously announced, is expected to make the treck to the storied fest in […]
Faces are saved, barely, as the body goes wholly to ruin in “Savage House,” a mordantly amusing tale of pretense, profligacy and the literally maddening pressures of the English class ladder — written and directed with surgical cruelty by, as it happens, an American. Arriving 12 years after his debut, the derivative indie romcom “The […]
The script is by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans, and Rick Alvarez (the film even makes jokes about how many Wayans there are), and they have bound themselves to the Ghostface saga as if it were the only thing that mattered in horror. The killer keeps popping up, as in a "Scream" film, and that sustains the tone of comic aggression. But the knockabout violence has the effect of steamrolling the wit.
Snap, parent of Snapchat, has acquired spatial augmented reality company Illumix in a bid to boost its AR efforts. The company’s interest was spurred by Illumix’s work in scaling its mapping technology and building it out for real-world experiences. As part of the deal, Snap will adopt Illumix’s technology and platform as it seeks to […]
President Barack Obama is one of the prominent voices featured in a new podcast, “Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise,” hosted by author and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell. The eight-part audio series from the History Channel is produced in collaboration with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company, Malcom Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries and Audible. It’s available starting […]
The issue of mental health in the music industry, and the roles labels, management and other companies can play in helping to keep artists healthy, has been a point of contention for many years. This guest post advocates strongly for a more involved and evolved role for the industry. Dr. Aprilia West PsyD, MT, PCC […]
Sharon Stone and Keke Palmer’s chemistry is electric from the second they meet — they start gabbing well before the cameras begin rolling and keep going after the director calls “cut,” exchanging phone numbers and making plans to dine and work together. Stone, who is 68 and has been an industry icon since 1992’s “Basic […]
Supercharging Canary Island animation studio Anima Kitchen, VFX giant DNEG has acquired the Canary Islands’ Anima Kitchent. The operation is backed by the support of the state-owned Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), a sovereign venture capital fund which has invested €24.9 million ($28.8 million) in Anima Kitchent. The joint investment, which sees both entities […]
In only two years, ECAM Forum, the boutique post-Cannes co-production market in Madrid, has sealed its reputation as a must-attend event for international players tracking down Spain’s wealth of talent, co-production opportunities and the next festival hits – from Spain and beyond. Indeed, out of 16 works in progress pitched in 2024 and 2025, 13 […]
One of the most hilarious and heartwarming films at this year’s Tribeca Festival consists of a pair of beloved comedians doing cocaine before going on a hike. Directed by Michael LaHaie, “Bob and David Climb Machu Picchu” follows Bob Odenkirk and David Cross — longtime pals and the comedy duo behind cult favorite “Mr. Show” […]
Fragrant Nature Film Creations has acquired exclusive distribution rights to “Josephine” across the Indian subcontinent. The deal covers India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Maldives. Directed by Beth de Araújo and starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan – both of whom also serve as producers – “Josephine” follows an eight-year-old girl, played […]
Robert De Niro took a thinly veiled dig at Donald Trump at the opening night of Tribeca Festival on Wednesday. The Oscar-winner used his time at the podium to talk about Tribeca’s mission as a festival formed in the wake of 9/11 to shine a spotlight on a part of the city that had been […]
“Backrooms” director Kane Parsons recently sounded off on AI in filmmaking during a recent interview with The Australian. The 20-year-old filmmaker said that he was “in the same boat as most well-adjusted people,” and does not want to see the technology take over Hollywood. “If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear […]
Is every musical artist’s fan base just waiting to turn on them, at a moment’s notice? The fickleness of fandom was never more apparent than it was reading the comments this past week from self-proclaimed followers of the artists who were booked to perform at the ill-fated “Freedom 250” concert series on the National Lawn […]
Doja Cat took to X on Wednesday to request that the platform’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, reinstate the “audio post” feature. It’s not likely the Grammy winner will get her way, however, because she slammed the tech mogul as a “frog build looking bitch” in the same breath. “Hey Elon if u see this please […]
Vasana Montgomery, the 25-year-old from Beaverton, Ore. who was cast in “Love Island USA” Season 8 and promptly expelled for using the n-word in social media videos, made a public apology on Wednesday. “I want to address a couple videos from my teen years that have recently resurfaced,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “In […]
Questlove tells the band’s story, and Maurice White’s story, in a way that’s at once thrilling and haunting. He captures their rightful place in the pop cosmos.
Boots Riley came out swinging after Martin Scorsese announced his involvement with the AI company Black Forest Labs on Tuesday, guessing that the filmmaker joined the firm as an advisor to help provide for his family and that Scorsese “doesn’t give a fuck” since he thinks AI will “fall on its face anyway.” The “I […]
