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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeStar Wars actor Daisy Ridley has opened up about the “divisive” response to The Rise of Skywalker, explaining why she found it so “upsetting”.Ridley, who will soon return to the sci-fi franchise, played Rey in three films, starting with JJ Abrams’s The Force Awakens in 2015, and concluding with The Rise of Skywalker in 2019.While The Force Awakens received praise from audiences, 2017…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePercy Jackson author Rick Riordan has sent fans of his book series into a spin after sharing a withering take on the “bad” film franchise.The writer is best known to many for writing the six-novel series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, which centres on Percy, an adolescent demigod, and his battle to stop the Titans from taking over the world with his friends.Though the books are…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOne of the year’s most divisive films has been added to a UK streaming service just one month after release.As of Friday (22 December), Prime Video subscribers will be able to watch the Golden Globe-nominated film Saltburn, which is the latest release from Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell.Saltburn is set on a luxury estate belonging to the aristocratic Felix Catton…

Another policy tug-of-war could be emerging around Big Tech’s content recommender systems in the European Union where the Commission is facing a call from a number of parliamentarians to rein in profiling-based content feeds — aka “personalization” engines that process user data in order to determine what content to show them. Mainstream platforms’ tracking and profiling of users to power “personalized” content feeds have long raised concerns about potential harms for individuals and democratic societies, with…

By now, the buzz around Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s sweaty, lascivious sophomore feature about a middle-class interloper in a vacuously rich family, has begun to settle into two camps. On one side, viewers and the plurality of critics who find the film, which had one of the most successful limited releases this year in the US before expanding nationwide last weekend, to be a flashy, self-satisfied mess of empty provocations. And on the other, those who see Fennell’s remix of Brideshead Revisited and the The Talented Mr…

What a week it’s been for Disney. From celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Disney Channel to landing 42 Emmy nominations at Hulu (or 64 depending on who you ask) to the one and only Bob Iger seemingly falling on the wrong side of the SAG-AFTRA debate — you can’t say it hasn’t been an eventful one.  The fallout over Iger’s words has not lost its sting for some Disney alumni, including a Marvel veteran who was seemingly told nearly a decade of his life’s work was not anything “significant,” to the sister of a Star Wars…

A number of conventions have pulled out of Florida over state policies that organizers describe as hostile to LGBT people and minorities. A number of conventions have pulled out of Florida over state policies that organizers describe as hostile to LGBT people and minorities. 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…

The company said it swung to a $54 million quarterly loss, primarily because of charges associated with legal-settlement costs. The company said it swung to a $54 million quarterly loss, primarily because of charges associated with legal-settlement costs. 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…

Image via 20th Century Fox The last few days have been hectic and running high on emotions in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The front-runner has undoubtedly been rumors of Mila Kunis in talks to play The Thing in Fantastic Four triggering mass outrage, followed by a three-time Emmy nominee soothing the ire by being the ultimate choice. But now, in her attempts to side-step the drama, Kunis has sparked a new controversy — by confirming that she knows who is going to play one of the main characters.  Kunis…