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Looks like when you sit down to watch the 96th Oscar Awards ceremony this time, seekers of a little controversy will not have to wait for one with bated breath as Alexander Payne’s widely celebrated and praised The Holdovers is already attracting the wrong kind of attention. In a shocking expose by Variety, it has been revealed screenwriter Simon Stephenson (who penned Luca) accused Payne, the director of The Holdovers, of plagiarising the unproduced script he wrote, titled Frisco. Based on the email evidence revealed by…

Madame Web may be an even bigger critical and financial disaster than Morbius, but let’s give it something: At least it’s not boring. While it was hard to remember anything that happened in, say, Aquaman 2 — and other mediocre superhero movies of that ilk — five minutes after seeing it, the sheer mind-numbing oddness of Sony’s deranged attempt to ignite a franchise lingers in the memory, whether you want it to or not. We’ve seen endless comic book films, and yet no others feature Dakota Johnson yelling at Ebeneezer…

An event based on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory made international news over the weekend after a promised world of imagination turned into a full on disaster. “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” in Glasgow, Scotland was promoted with elaborate AI-generated images of lollipop forests and jellybean waterfalls. But when families arrived, they were greeted by a filthy, barely decorated warehouse, prompting parents to call the police (see the photos here). Now, Gizmodo has a copy of the event’s unhinged AI-generated…

Parents, children, and now disgruntled actors are in an uproar over a catastrophic Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland that went viral over the weekend. The “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” ended with police sirens when families enticed by fantastical AI-generated images arrived to find a filthy, barely decorated warehouse. Now, actors who joined in on the fiasco are speaking out. The deeper you go into this world of imagination, the worse it gets. Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox ControllerPaul Connell, who said he was one of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCillian Murphy has revealed the encouraging and heartfelt words Christopher Nolan wrote on the cover of his Oppenheimer script. The Irish actor, 47, who is still on an awards campaign tour for Nolan’s Oscar-nominated atomic bomb epic, appeared on a recent episode of CBS’ popular news show 60 Minutes.During the segment, Murphy showed a copy of his script, which had the words: “Dearest…

Cillian Murphy recalled the unique pressure he faced working with Christopher Nolan's first-person script for Oppenheimer.The Irish actor, 47, stars in the lead role in the Interstellar director's biographical thriller about the "father of the atomic bomb."Speaking from the 2024 Baftas red carpet on Sunday (18 February), Murphy - who was nominated for best actor at this year's awards - recalled the pressure of working with an unconventional script for the biopic.1:34"I have never encountered it... It puts a lot of…

A Star Wars script left in a London flat by Harrison Ford has been sold at an auction for £10,795.The fourth draft of the screenplay for the first Star Wars movie, originally titled The Adventures of Luke Starkiller, had an estimated selling price of £8,000-£12,000 and was bought on Saturday by an Austrian private collector.The script, dated 15 March 1976, was used by Ford and then left in a London flat that he was renting while he filmed at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.It is incomplete and unbound, with…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDakota Johnson has made it clear that her new film, Madame Web, underwent “drastic changes” after she had signed on to play the title lead. Sony’s new superhero blockbuster, which is an adaptation of Marvel’s Spider-Man universe, has been branded an “embarrassing mess” in early reviews.Speaking to TheWrap ahead of its Valentine’s Day (14 February) cinematic release, Johnson, who leads…

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Jacob Roach / Digital Trends MSI and Asus are stepping up their monitor game. Both companies are now offering burn-in protection as part of the warranties on their OLED displays, which is a welcome layer of security considering how many displays both brands have launching this year. Although we’ve had OLED gaming monitors for close to two years, most brands have paid very little attention to the risk of burn-in. In January, we took a look at the burn-in protection that the largest brands offered on their OLED…