Author: Michael

In 2021, Bassam Tariq got the opportunity of a lifetime. The filmmaker, born in Pakistan and raised in the United States, only had a pair of features under his belt – a well-reviewed documentary called “These Birds Walk” (directed with Omar Mullick) and a narrative feature called “Mogul Mowgli” starring Riz Ahmed that was also well-reviewed but hardly anybody saw. But he was hired to mount a hugely anticipated Marvel Studios project, “Blade,” based on the half-vampire character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan and immortalized on screen by Wesley Snipes in three movies (and a robust cameo in…

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Simone Biles shares what tennis star Carlos Alcaraz said to her after she watched his US Open match this week, while chatting with ET’s Emily Curl at Kering’s 5th Annual Caring for Women dinner in New York. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from #EntertainmentTonight : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQwITQ__CeH2Y_7g2xeiNDa0vQsROQQgv

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You can’t really get into the Halloween mood until you’ve attended Universal Studios’ annual after-hours event, which is currently operating on select nights until Nov. 1. (You can get Halloween Horror Nights tickets here. And don’t skip. Get the front-of-the-line passes. You’ll thank us later.) This year’s line-up of houses leans heavily into pre-existing IP – everything from Ryan Coogler’s recent Oscar-winning vampire epic “Sinners” to Clive Barker’s classic “Hellraiser” to the latest entry in the “Evil Dead” franchise, “Evil Dead Burn.” It is a little odd that two of the most successful and widely discussed horror films of the…

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Studios and streamers have been under relentless financial pressure for years. Production costs keep climbing, subscriber growth has plateaued and traditional advertising revenues continue to contract. While the public debate remains fixated on generative AI creating synthetic video, the technology’s most immediate financial impact is happening behind the camera. Tools that once required massive post-production budgets are now accessible to virtually anyone.  Yet for major studios, unlocking that value has proven deceptively difficult. While point-solution AI tools can generate assets or speed up individual tasks in seconds, most entertainment organizations are hamstrung by fragmented systems, isolated data silos and manual…

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Maria Bartiromo is hardly the first Fox personality to leave the network with a powerful brand of her own. Bill O’Reilly, Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly all left Fox as major television personalities, with varying degrees of post-Fox success. Yet their departures revealed something about the institution they left behind: None proved indispensable to it. That history gives Bartiromo’s sudden departure last week significance beyond the question of who replaces her. After 12 1/2 years hosting programs across Fox News and Fox Business, Bartiromo now joins a group of personalities whose next acts offer a test of where the power…

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