Inspiration

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images. After it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslov said he was looking to Kevin Feige and the Marvel Cinematic Universe as inspiration for mapping out the next decade of DC films, Marvel and DC fans alike were expressing a lot of thoughts about the development. Though reports have surfaced that Zaslov has canceled the straight-to-stream HBO Max original film Batgirl, despite the film being nearly complete, due to an apparent renewed focus on theatrically-released…

JC Olivera/Getty Images This article contains plot details/spoilers for Nope Jordan Peele’s Nope is slated to land in theaters this Friday, and the inspiration behind the film is both simple and multifaceted. Of course, there’s the extraterrestrial involvement, but there’s also a deeper message.  In a round table with EW, director Peele stated that the idea at the film’s core was simple: “I believe there are aliens out there.”  For the rest of the plot details, he’s keeping his cards close to his chest, but he…

Boost your model performance via multimodal masked auto-encodersPhoto by Pablo Arenas on UnsplashSelf-supervised pre-training is a main approach to improve the performance to traditional supervised learning, in which large amount of labeled data is necessary and costly. Among self-supervised learning methods, contrastive learning is popular for its simplicity and efficacy. However, most contrastive learning methods use global vectors in which the details of pixel-level information is lost, which leaves room of improvement…

Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi has revealed the unlikely source for one of the movie’s scenes. The newly released film, which is a sequel to 2017 film Thor: Ragnarok, stars Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Natalie Portman.To the delight of Marvel fans, the trio are accompanied in the film by a few screaming goats.In a new interview with Insider, Waititi explained where he got the idea to include the animals and the unexpected source of their unique sound.“The goats were always going to be in there…

Microsoft Edge is building what seems like a mini version of Pinterest inside its browser. Its Collections window will soon start displaying a feed of recommended content based on the topics you’ve saved. As someone who has used Edge since the browser first came out, I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I never really knew much about Collections (until now, at least). So if you’re anything like me, here’s a quick rundown. Collections lets you save and organize webpages, text snippets, and images you find on the web. You…

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one billion people around the world are living with a disability. It’s not an insignificant number, but the vast majority of people in that demographic still don’t feel seen.It’s something Keely Cat-Wells set out to fix with C Talent.C Talent is a talent management and consultancy agency working with deaf and disabled entertainers. As someone living with a disability, Keely wanted to make navigating the creator economy and Hollywood more equitable and inclusive—and…

Donna Mills, star of American soap opera Knots Landing, has claimed the character of Sandy in Jim Jacobs’s musical Grease was inspired by her. Mills, 81, posted a video on Instagram on Monday (20 June) in which she appears dressed up as Sandy. The actor sports two looks – a feminine pink sweater with pearls, and a black leather jacket over a lacy top like the character’s “female greaser” attire. Then, she says: “Did you know I went to school with Jim Jacobs? Jim Jacobs who wrote Grease? Jim Jacobs who used me as his model…

via Universal There’s a Wolverine hiding amongst the dinosaurs of Jurassic World Dominion. DeWanda Wise, who plays pilot Kayla Watts in the last installment of the Jurassic World trilogy, told The Hollywood Reporter that she was inspired by the 2017 R-rated Marvel film Logan. “I saw Logan and I recognized that there was room in the action space for characters who had a little more depth of personhood, of lives, of personality—even if it doesn’t necessarily show up in the exposition on screen, you can still feel…

Atlanta rapper Trouble has been fatally shot in Georgia, according to officers. He was 34 .Trouble, whose real name was Mariel Semonte Orr, was shot at an apartment east of Atlanta while visiting a female friend, according to a Rockdale County Sheriff’s spokesman. He was found on the ground at 3:20 a.m. Sunday and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the sheriff’s office.No arrests have been made, but the sheriff’s office said it has issued an arrest warrant for a suspect identified as Jamichael Jones. The…

Apple’s WWDC event is set to take place next week. The company reveals new software enhancements at this conference and according to a new report, it’s set to introduce a big change for the iPad. According to the report, the iPad’s software will get a major overhaul as part of iPadOS 16. The company is said to be focusing on improving the multitasking experience on the iPad, something that Samsung has been able to refine on its flagship Galaxy tablets. The iPad is about to get better at multitasking iPadOS 16 is said to…