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Kevin Spacey had a “weird and unusual” acting process on the set of American Beauty, his co-star Mena Suvari has claimed.Suvari appeared in the 1999 film as the best friend of Spacey’s teenage daughter, who Spacey’s character begins having elaborate fantasies about.The actor has now said that she “trusted” Spacey throughout filming, but remembered one “unusual” moment in which the pair prepared for an intimate scene on camera.In a side room on the set, the pair “lay on the bed very close to one another”, Suvari told…

LCE: Local Cascade EnsemblePhoto by David Bruyndonckx on Unsplash.Over the past years, Random Forest and XGBoost have emerged to be the best performing machine learning methods in addressing many challenges of classification and regression. Practitioners are faced with the recurrent question: which one should we choose for our given dataset? Local Cascade Ensemble (LCE) is a new machine learning method which proposes to answer this question. It combines their strengths and adopts a complementary diversification…

How and when to use themPhoto by Rodion Kutsaiev from PexelsIn the age of big data, data scientists are using datasets that possess more and more features. This leads to a very well know effect: the curse of dimensionality. When the number of features increases, after a certain point, the performance of the model will decrease. This is due to the fact that the density of the data points is going to decrease as the dimensionality increases (without adding any samples). One of the main consequences to this, is that it…

The first trailer has dropped for the new Kevin Spacey film Peter Five Eight. It is the first footage of the actor in a project for nearly five years.Peter Five Eight is one of Spacey’s first roles since he was accused of sexual assault by dozens of men, including actor and singer Anthony Rapp, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal that rocked Hollywood in 2017.After the allegations surfaced, Spacey was fired from his hit Netflix show House of Cards.Ridley Scott also replaced his scenes with Christopher Plummer in…

Image via Lucasfilm / Star Wars: The Last Jedi Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, has addressed rumors about Marvel boss Kevin Feige helming his own project in the Star Wars franchise. It seems only natural to try and bring the visionary behind the comic book franchise of films, which has made its own foray into the cosmos in recent years, into the galaxy far, far away, since both Marvel and Lucasfilm are owned by parent company Disney. And while Kennedy did not outright rule out the possibility, she…

Blumhouse’s latest horror film, They/Them, has received a release date for its premiere on Peacock, and there isn’t too long a wait. The slasher flick centered around a conversion therapy center will arrive on the streaming service on Aug. 5. Starring Kevin Bacon, the film that is being billed as an LGBTQIA+ empowerment tale will see the iconic star portray the director of the camp according to Variety. “Bacon stars in the film as Owen Whistler, the director of a conversion therapy camp named Whistler Camp, which…

Kevin Spacey is making a comeback in a new movie that will be available to buy at Cannes. The Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to take place from 17-28 May. While journalists will be available to watch the premiere of new films, including David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, there will also be a selection of unmade films seeking distribution as part of Cannes Market.One such film will be 1242 – Gateway to the West, a historical drama set to star Spacey. Principal photography on the UK,…