backstory

Sama 2.0, the first digital cabin crew member of Qatar Airways, may also be the future of airline customer experiences. Unveiled at the ITB conference in Berlin, the AI assistant is game-like and armed with a range of expressions and simulated breathing—and will provide comprehensive assistance to passengers on various topics, from on-board services to travel information. Qatar Airways calls it “the first digital human in aviation.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo19skH6gVsAnd if like many travelers, you’ve been…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFor many actors, an Academy Award is the final frontier. They are often treated as things to be earned through years of glad-handing and hard graft – a prize to be yearned after for years, even decades. But not everybody has to wait a lifetime. Just ask Tatum O’Neal.It was 50 years ago, in 1974, that O’Neal became the youngest ever Oscar winner, for her performance opposite her father…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere’s nothing quite like It’s a Wonderful Life. The beloved 1946 Christmas film, in which James Stewart plays a despairing man who is shown what the world would look like if he’d never been born, is, to many of us, as treasured and essential a part of the festive period as Santa Claus himself.Yet like so many of the best Christmas stories – including this film’s key antecedent,…

Satire often leans toward one of two directions — a scathing critique where no one gets spared or an outright farce that broadly spoofs the absurdity of a given scenario. Filmmaker Cord Jefferson took a more compassionate path with “American Fiction,” his triumphant adaptation of Percival Everett’s acerbic 2005 novel “Erasure.” In this highly entertaining look at one modern Black American family in the Boston area, and a woke culture that isn’t nearly as woke as Americans like to think it is, Jefferson takes on hot-button…

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One crams a lot into every action set piece. For example, the movie is never content to simply have Ethan Hunt pursuing his target through an airport. He’ll also have to deal with the intervention of an enigmatic lady thief, a US government hit squad out to assassinate him, a mysterious digital ghost and, oh yeah, a ticking miniature nuclear bomb. That director Christopher McQuarrie is able to keep all these plates spinning at once is a testament to his skills, though even in a…

A wild rumor suggests Disney has tapped a director for a live-action Gargoyles movie. Strange New Worlds’ Gia Sandhu talks about bringing more of Spock’s backstory to the screen. Plus, what’s coming on the last few episodes of Secret Invasion. To me, my spoilers!What Drew Gillian Jacobs to Invincible? | io9 InterviewGargoylesAccording to The Belfast Telegraph, Kenneth Branagh is attached to direct a live-action film adaptation of Gargoyles, the popular 1990s animated series for Disney. BarbieDuring a recent interview with…

After being shut down by Disney and resurrected by Netflix, the animated movie adaptation of ND Stevenson’s webcomic-turned-graphic-novel Nimona is now available for streaming — and fans of the comic will immediately notice story and tonal differences. They’ll also notice some new backstory added in, in a story arc that Stevenson says dates back to the 2012 creation of the comic. “There’s one thing I really loved seeing in the movie, because it was a seed of an idea I had with the comic that didn’t really fit in the…

The legendary John Wick is back in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’. In the latest installment of the John Wick saga, Keanu Reeves reprises his most iconic role. Recently, Keanu revealed some interesting details about the ‘John Wick’ series. “It wasn’t just a puppy.” Starting from the death of his puppy, John Wick finds himself at odds with the very world he once sought to leave. Backed into a corner with the assassin world gunning for him, John must successfully complete the High…

Read more... Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please contact us by email – [email protected]. The content will be deleted within 24 hours.

Margot Robbie’s new profile in Vogue is incredible. The article mainly dives into Robbie’s work on the much-anticipated Barbie, but in between some delightful behind-the-scenes anecdotes, it offers insight on how the Barbie film actually came to be.Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Behind The Scenes Clip First, did you know that Robbie herself went to Mattel to get the film rights? In 2018, she approached the toy company’s CEO and pitched her company—LuckyChap—as the production outfit that would do right by Barbie. After she got the…