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John Woo's 1997 hit Face/Off stands out as one of the quintessential action movies, embodying the best of the 90s cinema. In 2019, Paramount Pictures excited fans with news of a new Face/Off movie in the works, and by 2021, it was confirmed to be a sequel, not a remake. Fans of Nicolas Cage have been eagerly anticipating Castor Troy and Sean Archer's return to the silver screen, and now the film’s helmer has an update. Adam Wingard has been attached to write and direct and has recently explained the reasons behind the…

Swedish music streaming company Spotify is rolling out full-length music videos in a limited beta launch for premium subscribers, venturing into an arena that YouTube has dominated for nearly two decades.Music videos will be available to premium users in the UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Kenya, in beta starting on Wednesday, the company said, as it attempts to grow its user base.While it aims to reach 1 billion users by 2030, Spotify's new plan faces…

Investors in edtech firm Byju’s parent Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd who have called today’s extraordinary general meeting (EGM) have raised concerns over the management's failure to enforce the company’s rights related to the acquisition of Aakash Educational Services Ltd (AESL), besides agreeing to “onerous” and “prejudicial” loan terms with Davidson Kempner (DK), among other matters.They have demanded the ouster of founder Byju Raveendran and his family from leadership roles in the edtech firm, accused the company of…

Cast your minds back, if you will, to 1983. The year of Return of the Jedi and The A-Team. It was also the year of a showdown in the sometimes dangerous and always hotly contested world of rally racing. The 1983 World Rally Championship saw the German Audi Quattro A2 team, led by Hannu Mikkola, fighting it out against Walter Röhrl and the Italian Lancia 037; it’s a rivalry that this dramatisation depicts as a David v Goliath battle, pitting the technologically advanced Germans against the scrappier and more strategic…

On a grey, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby.The use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology -- which creates biometric facial signatures before instantaneously running them through a watchlist of suspects -- led to 10 arrests for crimes including threats to kill, bank fraud, theft and possession of a crossbow.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

India's software giants are preparing for a bruising face-off over massive contract renewals that are due in the next six months. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ Bellatrix’s propulsion systems ready for lift-off■ MNCs outside US set to expand GCC base in India■ FY23 numbers of Cashfree, Uni CardsFor IT, $16 billion deal feast on the table India's top software exporters are gearing up for an intense fight with local and foreign competitors for a significant chunk of…

Image Source : YOUTUBE: MADE BY GOOGLE #BestPhonesForever: Snow Phones (Google Ad) Google is playfully teasing Apple in its latest ad, showing the Pixel 8 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro taking a break and enjoying snowy fun. The ad highlights the Pixel's recent updates, including the Gemini Nano AI model and a Feature Drop. In a lighthearted exchange, the iPhone comments that…

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: legendary Hong Kong director John Woo has a new film coming out in December – Silent Night – and any movie from the GOAT of action flicks is a real gift. So why not revisit the movie that is arguably the most popular, and inarguably the most bonkers, of his career?Face/Off sees John Travolta as FBI agent Sean Archer, who is tracking the notorious terrorist Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage. But when Troy tries to kill him and kills Archer’s son instead, Archer becomes…

via Buena Vista Director Adam Wingard may be pre-occupied with the MonsterVerse for the time being as he puts the finishing touches on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire ahead of its release next summer, but the following project for the filmmaker after that could be the long-awaited sequel to undisputed action classic Face/Off. While the horror veteran has also been given the green light to begin developing childhood passion project Thundercats as well, the fact Nicolas Cage is talking up the interesting conceit…

When writer Benjamin Percy and artist Juan José Ryp cranked up the heat on the inevitable clash between Wolverine and a breaking-the-sound-barrier-on-the-slippery-slope Beast, I thought to myself: Oh, man, this is going to be brutal. Wolverine justice is always of the guts-and-blood variety, after all, and currently in Marvel Comics, Beast has an army of lobotomized Wolverine clones for an army and an advisory board of his own equally intelligent clones. What I didn’t expect: Hank’s crimes against nature are pure…