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Screenshot: A24, Paramount, Image: Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Mondo, Marvel StudiosThis weeks news brought with it a whole sandworm’s worth of Dune Part 2 coverage, from reviews to interviews, but that wasn’t all: we’ve got Cate Blanchett serving in the messy-looking Borderlands movie, a very cool X-Men figure, and a critical re-appraisal: Madame Web? Good, actually! With several asterisks. Check it out! — James Whitbrook Screenshot: A24, Paramount, Image: Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Warner…

Though many doctors today get help from robots for procedures ranging from hernia repairs to coronary bypasses, those are used to assist surgeons, not replace them. This new research marks progress toward robots that can operate more autonomously on very intricate, complicated tasks like suturing. The lessons learned in its development could also be useful in other fields of robotics. “From a robotics perspective, this is a really challenging manipulation task,” says Ken Goldberg, a researcher at UC Berkeley and…

It’s never too late to follow a dream or for a second chance in life. That’s the message of this aggressively sentimental Australian drama about a woman in her 80s who walks out on her emotionally abusive partner and starts over as a fashion designer. It’s a movie with all its edges filed down and a soundtrack that doesn’t so much tug at the heartstrings as yank them. But 89-year-old actor Maggie Blinco gives a performance of such gentleness and dignity she pulls the quality up from its Hallmark level.Blinco plays Liebe,…

Image: DisneyThe Little Mermaid is only the newest of Disney’s animated adaptations. As live-action takes on Moana, Hercules, Lilo and Stitch, and Snow White are all churning their way through the Mouse House production factory, the man leading the “reimagination” is Walt Disney Pictures president Sean Bailey, who has at least 50 more projects waiting in the wings. Don’t Mess With Luthen and His Fricking Lasership | Andor ReviewThis figure comes courtesy of a new profile in the New York Times. Bailey—whose “division makes…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images), Pascal Le Segretain (Getty Images)Universal Pictures’ upcoming live-action remake of Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon animated franchise has found its leading actors. Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DThe Hollywood Reporter has announced that Mason Thames, who starred in Scott Derrickson’s The Black Phone, has been cast as Hiccup, a young Viking prince who befriends a injured dragon and becomes its protector in a world that wants to wipe the creatures out of…

Image via Walt Disney Pictures A video shared on Twitter has given fans a sneak peak of the live-action Lilo and Stitch, and boy is it creepy. You might be tired of the frequent live-action remakes released every year, but Disney isn’t tired of money. Filming has clearly begun on its latest do-over with real people, as the cast and crew were spotted filming in Hawaii. Someone was even able to capture a video of one particular scene being filmed. Yes, it does feature Stitch, and no, they haven’t cast a…

Images via Disney/Walt Disney Animation The Little Mermaid remake is just about to swim to the surface — although, by the looks of it, maybe it’s more accurate to say it’s floating to the surface upside-down. In a tale as old as time (or, at least, about 10 years ago, when these live-action reboots started happening), Disney die-hards were initially excited about this new take on the 1989 animated original before the trailers arrived and introduced us to terrifying new versions of all your underwater favorites…

Image: LegoTo help celebrate Disney’s 100th anniversary, Lego’s latest minifigure collection features 18 of the company’s most iconic animated characters now sporting claw-shaped hands. The Disney 100 assortment includes “Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, The Queen, Stitch 626, Pocahontas, Cruella de Vil & Dalmatian puppy, Miguel & Dante, Ernesto de la Cruz, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Robin Hood, Prince John, Tiana, Dr. Facilier, Queen of Hearts, Mulan, Aurora and Baymax.” They’ll all be…

via Disney Disney hasn’t been having the best of times since announcing that a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch was on the cards, with the completely unnecessary do-over coming under fire for whitewashing one of its biggest roles. While the furor has died down somewhat after Courtney B. Vance’s casting as Cobra Bubbles assuaged any doubts that the blockbuster retread would be omitting one of the animated original’s most beloved characters, the film has nonetheless been forced to recast a major role…

Throughout the month of April, Disney’s been gradually rolling out casting information for its incoming remake of Lilo & Stitch. We’ve got our Lilo in newcomer Maia Kealoha, a Nani in Sydney Elizabeth Agudong, and Billy Magnussen. All that’s missing is Stitch—or rather, he was missing before now. If An AI Reworks Copyrighted Images, Is It Art? | Future TechPer the Hollywood Reporter, Disney’s currently in final talks to bring back Stitch’s original actor, Chris Sanders, to reprise the role for the remake. Along with…