Producers

By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — With just a few days to go until the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the show’s producers are feeling good about what they’ve put together. The nominees are some of the best the Oscars have seen, including some true blockbusters like “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie.” Ryan Gosling is singing “I’m Just Ken” during the show. There will be a live orchestra in the theater. And the ever-reliable Jimmy Kimmel is back to host the proceedings for the fourth time. Oscar statuettes are…

Investment in the domestic semiconductor space will increase at least five times to 7.5 lakh crore, making India one of the top five semiconductor manufacturing nations by 2028, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for electronics and IT, communications and railways.Vaishnaw told ET that the government will be focused on execution of India’s first semiconductor fab project, by the Tata group, along with two other chip assembly proposals, in record time.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The producers behind the new Wendy Williams documentary said they wouldn’t have begun filming it if they knew about her mental health diagnosis ahead of time. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Where Is Wendy Williams? producers Mark Ford and Brie Miranda Bryant discussed the news last week that Williams had been diagnosed with new primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. “Of course, if we had known that Wendy had dementia going into it, no one would’ve rolled a camera,” Ford said…

In the last frenzy of major awards-giving before the Oscars, Oppenheimer has won the best theatrical feature prize at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards, while Past Lives dominated the Independent Spirit awards, winning best film and best director.Oppenheimer is the first Christopher Nolan-directed film to claim the prize; Nolan (and fellow producer Emma Thomas) having previously been nominated for Dunkirk, Inception, and The Dark Knight. The win puts it in pole position in the race for the best picture Oscar;…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain American consumers have failed to fully embrace products with less added sugar despite the clear health benefits, according to a new study led by a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The study is believed to be the most comprehensive accounting to date of the evolution of sugar content and intake in the U.S. The findings are published in the journal Agribusiness.…

Right now in Star Wars, if something evil is going on, odds are it’s all part of Emperor Palpatine’s master plan. The Bad Batch has been playing with this idea as it set up its Rise of the Empire-era world across its first two seasons, but season three’s premiere made it even more explicit with the big boss showing up at Mount Tantiss... and a very tantalizing namedrop.Spoilers of the Week May 2-6“Shadows of Tantiss”—the third episode of The Bad Batch’s three-part season three premiere —saw Omega and Crosshair’s plans to…

Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies and fellow Rockstar alumni Matthew Smith and Colin Entwistle, has had to let go of a number of employees across three locations. A statement has been supplied to PCGamesN from the studio following the publication’s report that an undisclosed number of roles were removed in art, quality assurance and publishing. “While we have made great progress developing our products, we are now in a position where we need to make changes to the way we…

In the past few years, gaming and creator culture have become an increasingly prominent part of the rap world. Think of the growing presence of Twitch streamers, or Ericdoa’s viral “Ninja Taper Fade” moment as an illustration of the overlapping Venn diagram between gamers and young rap fans. “Speedrunning,” a term that refers to gamers seeing how fast they can beat a particular game, has even made its way to the rap world, as young producers post videos of themselves recreating popular rap beats in record time.…

Sony Music Entertainment sued the producers of the 2022 Whitney Houston biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody this week, claiming the producers have yet to pay for the use of Houston’s music catalog in the film, over a year after the movie first came out. In the suit, filed on Thursday, Sony Music claimed that the biopic’s producers, Anthem Films, Nybo Productions, and Black Label Media, entered a licensing agreement with the record company on December 5, 2022 and that payments for the use of the…

The Bad Batch has had to, for obvious reasons, spend a lot of time revolving around the characters of its masculine stars—Omega aside, the series must look beyond the rank and file of the former Clone Army for a feminine perspective. But as the third and final season looms, it’s setting the stage to center three very intriguing female foils.What Drew Gillian Jacobs to Invincible? | io9 InterviewOmega, of course, remains a vital part of The Bad Batch, but she and the rest of the team will find themselves brushing up…