Author: Michael

AI Creator Day brings together creators, storytellers, marketers, brands and industry leaders who are actively building with AI and navigating its impact on the creative industries. Conversations, workshops, live demonstrations and creator showcases cover the businesses forming around the technology and the open questions about ownership, ethics and creative rights. The inaugural event serves as the kickoff to TheGrill 2026, TheWrap’s flagship business and technology conference, taking place the following day at the DGA. Who You’ll Hear From: Caleb WardCEO & Co-Founder, Curious RefugeCurious Refuge has trained thousands of artists worldwide and inside every major studio — from Academy Award winners to…

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Hayden Panettiere‘s ex-fiancé, Wladimir Klitschko, honored the late actress with a message Friday on what would have been her 37th birthday, just five days after the “Heroes” star tragically died. Panettiere and Klitschko first dated from 2009 through 2011 and later got back together in 2013. They became engaged that same year but split on amicably in 2018. They share one daughter, Kaya, together, who was born in 2014. “Today is Hayden’s birthday. Instead of celebrating the way we had planned, today we celebrate her life, her spirit and the love she brought into this world,” Klitschko wrote in his…

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It makes sense that Leslie Iwerks would become the greatest documentarian of the Walt Disney Company. Her grandfather, Ub Iwerks, worked closely with Walt, co-creating characters like Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit; and her father, Don, was responsible for a number of innovations at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he pioneered the technology that would drive the Circle-Vision theater attractions and motion simulators like Star Tours and Body Wars. (Don passed away last month at the age of 96.) Earlier this year, “Disneyland Handcrafted” was released on Disney+, which chronicled the frantic, year-long design and construction of Disneyland using…

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The visual-effects artists of Hulu’s “Paradise” spent the first season creating the vast underground town that gives the show its name, making sure the city looked bucolic under its fake sky and plotting out a maze of catwalks above it and subterranean levels below it. In Season 2, they blew up the whole damn thing. “It was kind of a release,” VFX supervisor John Weckworth said, laughing. “It was a catharsis to watch it go.” The destruction of Paradise comes near the end of “Exodus,” the final episode of the second season. It’s the culmination of a season that begins…

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Millions in trust funds, future thrones, and internet exaggeration! Discover how North West, Blue Ivy Carter, and Prince George represent three completely different versions of inherited global power. Like and subscribe to OSSA for more epic pop culture & wealth breakdowns! ✨ #RichKids #CelebrityWealth #PrinceGeorge #NorthWest #BlueIvy 👉 Follow & Watch on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033YvJlwFiDqrezIaq7ro0

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