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Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic In 1973, Ron Howard starred in the George Lucas hit American Graffiti. In 1977, he went to see Lucas’ new film — a movie you may have heard of called Star Wars — during its opening weekend. What Howard said he did afterward shows how big of an impression the film made on him. In the 3rd episode of the 2022 Disney Plus docuseries, Light & Magic, Howard briefly describes the moment. Earlier in the series, the future director admitted that when he was cast to play Steve…

Lazing in his Ibiza garden one afternoon last spring, Ben Howard experienced what he calls “a strange interlude”. Without warning, for an hour, the Brit award-winning singer-songwriter completely lost his ability to speak.“All my other senses became really heightened,” he says, via video call from the dressing room of the Coliseu do Porto, where he’s playing later. “It was an overload of information, like the whole world was pouring in at once. I felt really hypersensitive to everything: the light, and the sound of the…

A few weeks ago Critical Role debuted its newest campaign: Candela Obscura. io9 had a chance to talk with Matt Mercer, Candela Obscura’s Game Master, and two players—Laura Bailey and Robbie Daymond—about the game, the production, and what’s next for the game at hand.A Guide to Giving Sustainable GiftsCandela Obscura is the first original tabletop roleplaying game from Darrington Press, Critical Role’s publishing arm. It is a Forged in the Dark-style game written by Spenser Starke and Rowan Hall using the Illuminated…

Jena Malone (Sucker Punch), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Terrence Howard (Iron Man), and Tom Everett Scott (La La Land) have been signed on for the film, titled The Movers. Writer-director Giorgio Serafini said, “The Movers is a paranoid supernatural thriller in constant motion. Always unsettling, its action is dictated by a nerve-racking countdown right up to the end.” Interestingly, the casting of Howard in the movie comes around five months after he announced that he was retiring. Back in 2019,…

Screenshot: Disney+After an internet uproar, Howard—the 2018 documentary chronicling the indelible legacy of lyricist Howard Ashman, the queer icon who gave The Little Mermaid a voice—will stay on Disney+. Deadline shared the update that that the title was no longer on a list of films being removed from the streamer.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesThe Don Hahn-directed homage to Ashman almost had a twisted fate, as the film was originally slated for removal the same day…

In 2010, writer and musician Howard Fishman went to a Christmas party at a friend’s house where, not knowing many people, he took to scanning the bookshelves to quell his anxiety. As he did so, a song called Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains) came on the stereo that, he recalls, “swallowed me. The party froze. The room disappeared.” Set against a backdrop of gentle guitar picking, it was sung by a woman, plaintively and without affectation, about “a place they called Lonesome” where everything, from the nearby brook to…

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “One Heart, Lost and Found” by Kat Howard. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGHTSPEED’s website. Enjoy!Why Hollywood Writers Are Striking Over AI | Future TechOne Heart, Lost and FoundI came to the city to find an egg. A robin’s egg, to be precise, an oval of pale, perfect blue that echoed the spring sky. Inside, not a robin, but an emerald.…

Lil Durk is proving why he’s a so-called Voice of the Heroes, as the Chicago rapper has teamed up with Amazon Music to launch a college tuition program called Durk Banks Endowment Fund.The fund has awarded two students, who participated in Durk’s Neighborhood Heroes HBCU College & Career Readiness Cohort Program, scholarships to Howard University, while also donating $250,000 to Howard’s financial aid program GRACE Grant.Over the weekend, Durkio took to Instagram to celebrate the donation. “I’m the voice this the part…

Howard Stern usually isn’t at the center of hot-topic conversations anymore, but the notorious shock jock has inserted himself into America’s culture war over LGBTQ visibility by challenging Kid Rock and other conservatives to explain why they are so incensed about transgender star Dylan Mulvaney’s partnership with Bud Light. During the Monday episode of SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show,” the radio host said he was “dumbfounded” over the strong backlash aimed at Anheuser-Busch, which produces Bud Light, over Mulvaney, a…

No human, that is — maybe the generative-AI chatbot should be benched, as critics like Elon Musk suggest We’ve already seen ChatGPT proclaim its undying love to the New York Times’ columnist Kevin Roose, only to pull back like a jilted lover. If Musk is worried, then maybe we should be. Let’s not forget that he provided OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, with its initial funding, on top of attempting to deploy AI in Tesla cars. So he knows how the sentient sausage is made. Here’s my very…