The Creator of ‘Andor’ Is Fired Up About the Streaming Wars
Frank D. Gilroy, the father of Andor creator Tony Gilroy, went on strike in 1960. The elder Gilroy, a Bronx-born screenwriter who would later win a Pulitzer Prize for his …
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The Anticlimactic Death of the Streaming Wars
Maybe A League of Their Own was doomed to strike out. A passion project in all senses of the word, it was a reboot hell-bent on showing the queer lives …
How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
For bookworms, reading a headline like “School District Uses ChatGPT to Help Remove Library Books” can be blood boiling. As Vulture put it earlier this week, it creates the sense …
Marvel’s VFX Workers Have Moved to Unionize—and It’s a Huge Deal for Hollywood
One of the many knock-on effects of Marvel making post-credit scenes a feature of the studio’s cinematic universe is that fans get a glimpse of just how many “below-the-line” workers …
Meeting Sinéad O’Connor in a Cracker Barrel Parking Lot, 1998
Sinéad O’Connor was seated amongst the Amish folks. Whoever gave her that table most likely knew what they were doing. It was 1998, the suburbs of Indianapolis, and O’Connor was …
The Shocking Success of ‘Barbie’
Barbenheimer—the one-two punch releases of Barbie and Oppenheimer—will go down in history as an astonishing success. Together, Variety reports, the films made more than $244 million in their opening weekend, …
The Hollywood Actors Strike Will Revolutionize the AI Fight
You know it’s bad when the cocreator of The Matrix thinks your artificial intelligence plan stinks. In June, as the Directors Guild of America was about to sign its union …
Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet
Today is the day the internet feared. Maybe it wasn’t an active fear, not a doomsday everyone knew was coming, but still one that almost seemed inevitable: The magic of …
White Gladis and Her Killer Whales Are Getting Revenge—30 Years After ‘Free Willy’
Future generations will know the legend of White Gladis. In late May, as America was struggling with the demise of HBO Max, social media picked up on another story: a …