Author: Ada Blood

Global entertainment company Lionsgate has closed the deal on buying Hasbro’s Entertainment One (eOne) for $375 million in cash. While this is the same price tag as when the merger was announced in August, it is still subject to certain purchase price adjustments. This includes the assumption that certain production financing loans will come through. So while it’s a done deal, some clerical uncertainties still exist. This acquisition gains Lionsgate 6,500 different film and television titles, making its catalog one of the largest in the world. Not only is the company’s library expansive but diverse as well. eOne produces ABC’s…

Film concept artist Reid Southen (“The Hunger Games”) has been pointing out AI platform MidJourney’s blatant plagiarism for some time now. Late last week, Southen posted some very damning evidence on X (formally Twitter). He shared a collection of screenshots from different users showing AI prompts of famous paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” spitting out almost identical images. Several users wrote these examples off since the paintings are in the public domain, therefore fair game to be replicated. Southen doubled down and showed MidJourney is also doing this with copyrighted work. He shared a prompt of Joaquin Phoenix…

Legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne is having to dispel myths about his demise after finding a YouTube video saying he is dead. The former Black Sabbath frontman recently stumbled upon an in-memoriam video of celebrities who have died this year, himself included. Ozzy was completely shocked to see his own photo in the video! “I put it on and I died!,” Ozzy said during an episode of “The Osbournes Podcast.” “The thing on YouTube, which goes, ‘Celebrities Who Have Died Today,’ and there’s a picture of me.” He then went on to reference “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” quipping, “I’m…

Activision Blizzard’s CEO Bobby Kotick is stepping down, with some reports indicating December 29th as his last day. He previously announced that he’d be leaving at the end of 2023, right after Microsoft acquired the company. On December 20th it was made offical when an e-mail was sent to all employees and later shared with the public. In the announcement, Kotick reminisced about playing the text adventure game “Mystery House” on a borrowed Apple II in college. The game had so much of an impact that Activision Blizzard now owns its publisher, Sierra On Line. He talked about how the…

Whoever first said “love is pain” probably didn’t mean something like this. A24 Films has released the first trailer for their bodybuilding revenge thriller “Love Lies Bleeding,” directed by Rose Glass (“Saint Maud”). The film is set to star Kristen Stewart (“Crimes of the Future”), Katy M. O’Brian (“The Mandalorian”), and Ed Harris (“Westworld”). “Love Lies Bleeding,” centers around Lou (Stewart) a withdrawn gym owner who falls madly in love with bodybuilder Jackie (O’Brian). Jackie is just passing through on her way to Las Vegas, but things go awry when the couple is pulled into Lou’s criminal family. The gun-toting clan…

A Goodwill store in Richmond, Virginia sold a vase in June for $3.99, that was just auctioned off for $107,000. Life-long thrifter Jessica Vincent hits the local second-hand stores with her partner Naza Acosta a few times a week. But during an afternoon outing, she hit the jackpot with a beautiful brightly colored vase.  While browsing, she noticed a bootle-shaped vase with ribbons of aqua green and amethyst purple, that spiraled up its surface like stripes of paint. The only markings Vincent could make out were on the piece’s base and read “Murano” and “Italia.” “I bought it thinking it…

Netflix has just released the trailer for its newest sci-fi drama, “The Kitchen.” The film is the feature-length directorial debut for both Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”) and Kibwe Tavares (“Robot & Scarecrow”). It takes place in a dystopian London dripping with cyberpunk flare, where the working class battle against a brutal ruling upper class. Social housing has been completely eliminated forcing the working class into “The Kitchen.” While the bulk of the two-minute trailer focuses on the new universe scripted by Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh (“The Woman in the Wall”), we do get some sense of the main characters. The story revolves…

We’re sorry to report MAX series “Warrior” will not return for a fourth season. The previous three seasons of the show are headed to Netflix starting in the new year. This arrangement is part of a co-exclusive deal with MAX in Warner Bros. Discovery streamer’s markets. There’s even a chance if it does well enough on Netflix, the martial arts crime drama could be revived for additional seasons. Based on an original concept and treatment by Bruce Lee, “Warrior” is set in the late 19th century during the Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown. The story centers around Ah Sahm…

Actor Christopher Abbott (“Poor Things”) will lead Leigh Whannell’s (“The Invisible Man”) upcoming movie, “Wolf Man.” The past three years of production has not only shifted lead actors, but directors as well. Ryan Gosling was originally set to star, but has stepped back to an executive producer role for undisclosed reasons. [Though we doubt it was him bringing a lack of Kenergy to the part.] While Whannell was the first director attached to this project, he was replaced by Derek Cianfrance in 2021, only to come back on board.  Even with all the pieces coming together, Blumhouse and Universal are…

Apple TV+ is expanding further into the sci-fi genre with its upcoming series “Murderbot,” starring Alexander Skarsgård (“The Northman”). This new show will be an adaptation of Martha Wells’ Hugo and Nebula Award-winning book series, “The Murderbot Diaries.” The series is created by Academy Award-nominated Chris and Paul Weitz (“About a Boy”).  “Murderbot” will be an action-packed 10-episode series, about a self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable “clients.” Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic…