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Today, December 22, the artificial intelligence (AI) space is asking us deep, philosophical questions, as new developments point towards its innovative use cases and its internal nature. A talkative robot called ElliQ, created by Intuition Robotics, is helping senior citizens in the US combat loneliness by offering them companionship. AI for companionship is a hotly explored space, and it is something even Elon Musk has talked about. In other news, a coalition of scientists is raising serious questions about the AI…

Let’s say I want to take myself to see Magic Mike’s Last Dance on Friday at the AMC 34th Street theater in Manhattan. Could happen! And if it does, I have two options: I can buy a regular ticket for $26.88. Or I can pick a seat in the middle of the theater and pay … $1 more. If this was a Knicks game or a Broadway show, this would be no big deal: Consumers are very familiar with the idea of paying more, or less, for seats based on desirability and demand: Front-row tickets for Taylor Swift cost thousands of dollars;…

Image: AMCOn Sunday, the world was reintroduced to Anne Rice’s vampires. The AMC pilot of the reconstructed Interview With the Vampire stars Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac, Sam Reid as Lestat, and Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy. (Also, Bailey Bass as Claudia, but she’s not going to show up for a few episodes.) In short, this pilot is an incredible testament to both Rice’s work and the reinvention of the series. Lush, provocative, gory, and seductive, “In the Throes of Increasing Wonder” gives you a little bit of…

Image: AMCAnne Rice, as an author, is obsessed with the ways that love is a singularly horrible experience. It tears you apart, it destroys you, it eats you alive. In the newest adaptation of her work, AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, love is placed at the center of a reconstructed version of her seminal twisted fantasy, resulting in a sweeping, Southern Gothic romance where two vampires make a fool of death with their inescapable, never-ending, horrific love.You may think you know the story of Louis de Pont du Lac and…

AMC Entertainment has embarked on a meme-friendly experiment to give a token reward to its retail investor base while also creating a backdoor way to raise more cash down the line.The theater chain's new preferred share class — called "APE" units — begin trading on Monday after being distributed to shareholders as a dividend last week.  "APE" stands for AMC preferred equity.The special dividend seems to be in keeping with CEO Adam Aron's aggressive marketing efforts to appeal to the retail investors who call themselves…

Movie theaters across the U.S. and worldwide were dealt a massive blow over the past two years.The domestic box-office numbers plummeted from 2019's box office of $11.15 billion to $3.8 billion in 2021. That's mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which kept people in their homes.Film studios scrambled to reshuffle movie release dates and secure deals for other distribution avenues, and movies intended for the big screen ended up on streaming sites.As the pandemic escalated, film studios tried solidifying their streaming…

Krysten Ritter attends MOCA Gala 2022 at the Geffen Contemporary on June 04, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Robin L Marshall (Getty Images)While OG Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is busy getting big and green for Marvel’s She-Hulk on Disney+, the next chapter of AMC’s clone-fascinated series has announced its star, and she happens to have her own Marvel connections: it’s Jessica Jones’ Krysten Ritter.Ritter will star in and executive produce Orphan Black: Echoes, according to Deadline; we’ve known it was in the…

The television remake of Interview With The Vampire by the late Anne Rice has a trailer and a release date. Taking a pretty clear departure from the source material, and doing its best to stand out from the atmospheric 1994 film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Kirsten Dunst, the new show looks like a sexy supernatural thriller rather than a horror/drama.SDCC Trailer: Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire | New Series October 2The show will at least partially take place in 1910 New Orleans, following businessman Louis…