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Image: LucasfilmIt’s not just the future of Star Wars TV we might get a glimpse of at Celebration, but its past as well—one mysterious Disney+ project we’ve seen very little of is The Acolyte, Leslye Headland’s dark, Jedi-infused mystery series set during the final days of the High Republic era. We know there’s a very intriguing cast attached to this series, including Amandla Stenberg, Dafne Keen, Lee Jung-jae, and more, and we know it’s going to examine the lingering specterof the Dark Side as the Republic and the…

Christina Darby/ZDNETLife imitates art, or does art imitate life? With OpenAI's DALL-E 2, art can imitate just about anything. The trending text-to-art platform allows users to generate images, but with their words instead of art supplies. The concept sounds almost too simple (and futuristic) to be true: Type your idea into a search bar and voila! But for the best results, you'll want to follow these tips and tricks to get the most realistic and accurate representations of your desired searches. Also: The best AI art…

Screenshot: LucasfilmWhen Star Wars: Visions debuted in 2021, it was justly celebrated for how it allowed some of Japan’s greatest anime studios carte blanche to create their own, well, visions of how the Star Wars galaxy could look. The results were frequently stellar, but season two will be made beyond just Japan. The next series has been announced, and its nine shorts will come from around the world.Nine different international studios from nine different countries will be offering their, er, ahem, visions of Star Wars…

It’s been little more than a year since Star Wars: Visions’ first season touched down on Disney Plus and immediately stunted on the rest of the franchise with its inspired visuals and genuinely fresh stories. There have been other Star Wars projects in the interim, but none of them have really come close to touching Visions in terms of making the fictional galaxy feel like a wild new place full of promise. Thankfully, the wait for more Visions is almost over.Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Visions is set to…

Star Wars: Visions is returning for a second 'season,' this time with a more international scope — including a studio you might not have expected. Disney has announced that Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 will premiere May 4th (aka Star Wars Day) with shorts from nine countries, including one from UK stop-motion legend Aardman. Details of the project ("I Am Your Mother") aren't available, but it's directed by Wallace & Gromit veteran Magdalena Osinska. Other titles come from 88 Pictures (India), Cartoon Saloon (Ireland),…

Former Day6 vocalist and K-pop idol eaJ (real name Jae Park) has released ‘Visions’, a collaboration with online video game Valorant and artist development company Safari Riot. eaJ’s newest release, which came out earlier today (January 6), was accompanied by a video featuring Valorant agents Sage and Omen battling robots during a training exercise while Astra and Harbor unlock the gates to a forgotten city. “Sometimes, I’m trapped inside / And I don’t know what I’m gonna do / But to take on the world / Is the only…

As you prepare to be in India to speak at the Jaipur Literature Festival, what are some of the thoughts running through your mind? Have you been to Jaipur, or other parts of India before? I am very excited! I have never been to Jaipur, but so many friends have told me about how beautiful it is. When I was a college student, I spent a year travelling through Asia. This included several months in India, visiting Calcutta, Varanasi, Agra, and Delhi. I was 19 years old then, so this was a very long time ago but I have never…

Star Wars: Visions delivered on its promise of bringing a galaxy far, far away into the world of anime. Season two is on the way in 2023 with a focus on global animation studios, but one fan has got ahead of the curve and imagined everyone’s favorite original trilogy characters (plus George Lucas!) in anime form. The images come courtesy of Redditor ideal-typical (aka @SneakyGecko), who previously dazzled us with a collection of prequel-era animefied characters. Check out the new set: Visions aims to tell stories…

via Marvel Studios It didn’t take long for those rumors of a Marvel Cinematic Universe series for Paul Bettany’s synthezoid to bear fruit, with Vision Quest being confirmed barely 24 hours after murmurings began sweeping the internet. In a meta turn of events that would make the subjugated residents of Westview proud, WandaVision showrunner Jac Schaeffer has now created a universe within a universe, given that Vision Quest has joined Agatha: Coven of Chaos in emerging from the aftermath of the superhero…

For 20 years, MIA has existed at the intersection of vilification and vindication. The Sri Lanka-born, London-raised rapper and singer has spent her entire career fighting perceived injustices in the world, from the underreporting and whitewashing of the Tamil genocide to the incarceration of her friend, the WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange. She also has terminal foot-in-mouth disease, and is prone to flippant, occasionally outright offensive trolling in the press and on Twitter.At the heart of it all has been the…