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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJake Gyllenhaal has spoken about the creative process of working with British director Guy Ritchie that forced him to “let go”.Gyllenhaal stars as a US army sergeant in Ritchie’s latest film, The Covenant, in which he and an Afghan interpreter take on Taliban forces.During a new interview on the popular YouTube show Hot Ones, the actor was asked whether it was “daunting” or…

The music industry is urging streaming platforms not to let artificial intelligence use copyrighted songs for training, in the latest of a run of arguments over intellectual property that threaten to derail the generative AI sector’s explosive growth.In a letter to streamers including Spotify and Apple Music, the record label Universal Music Group expressed fears that AI labs would scrape millions of tracks to use as training data for their models and copycat versions of pop stars.UMG instructed the platforms to block…

Radcliffe explains why he acted like ‘absolute d**k’ during ‘Harry Potter’ kissing scene(Photo Credit –wikimedia) Hollywood star Daniel Radcliffe acted like an “absolute d**k” during a crucial ‘Harry Potter’ kissing scene. The actor has offered an apology to his castmates Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint after the movie star confessed he wasn’t on his best behaviour when the pair were called on set to film a smooch between their characters Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part…

Image via Marvel Studios After a long, long wait, the official trailer of The Marvels is finally here, and while it is amazing on cosmic levels, it has already solved one of its most pressing mysteries.  By the looks of it, seems like Monica Rambeau, Carol Danvers, and Kamala Khan will manage to be the force that saves the MCU, which has been drowning since Phase Four kickstarted. Trailers are often blamed for leaving little to the imagination by revealing all its cards, but the official peek at The Marvels…

An amateur photographer who goes by the name "ibreakphotos" decided to do an experiment on his Samsung phone last month to find out how a feature called "space zoom" actually works.The feature, first released in 2020, claims a 100x zoom rate, and Samsung used sparkling clear images of the Moon in its marketing. Ibreakphotos took his own pictures of the Moon -- blurry and without detail -- and watched as his phone added craters and other details. The phone's artificial intelligence software was using data from its…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChris Pratt and Charlie Day were asked to change their original voices for The Super Mario Bros Movie because they were “a little New Jersey”.The pair voice Mario and Luigi in the new film, an animated adaptation of the hit Nintendo game.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, the pair opened up about earlier versions of the character they tested before settling on their chosen voices.“We…

Hulu is developing a documentary about Freaknik, the legendary HBCU spring break party that exploded in popularity in the 1990s.Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told will depict “the rise and fall of a small Atlanta HBCU picnic that exploded into an influential street party and spotlighted ATL as a major cultural stage,” according to Variety.Serving as executive producers on the project are Emmy award-winning directors Geraldine L. Porras and P Frank Williams, Jermaine Dupri, Luther Campbell, Peter Bittenbender, Melissa…

Lewisham-hailing rapper KidWild is back with a new video and it’s got all the hallmarks that made tracks like “Popular Loner”, “DND” and “Feeling A Way” so instantly likeable. “If I Told You (Lady)” dropped a couple of weeks ago and it’s just been given some visuals by director Blue Boredom.A sample from turn-of-the-millenium dance-pop hit “Lady (Hear Me Tonight)” by Modjo gives the track its backbone, which KidWild hops and skips over as he serenades the girl of his dreams. Between the recurring guitar lick sample and…

Software maker Fortra told its corporate customers that their data was safe — even when it wasn’t — following a ransomware attack on its systems, TechCrunch has learned. As we have been reporting, the Clop ransomware gang exploited a newly discovered bug in Fortra’s GoAnywhere file transfer software, used by thousands of organizations to transfer sensitive data over the internet. The bug allowed the ransomware gang to hack in and carry out a mass ransomware attack on January 31. The Russia-linked Clop gang claimed it…

It turned into a five-hour showdown between TikTok CEO Shou Chew and US lawmakers, who have found suspicion of TikTok to be a rare source of bipartisan agreement. It comes as US officials told the company they could ban the app if it doesn’t separate itself from ByteDance.As with previous hearings with social media executives, lawmakers pressed Chew for often impossible yes-no answers to complex questions and grew frustrated when he declined to give one. In one exchange, Representative Tony Cardenas asked Chew whether…