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As things have turned out, Mike Mitchell and Stephanie Ma Stine's Kung Fu Panda 4 and Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two make a surprisingly great box office pair. Both movies are based on highly popular IP and have drawn big crowds, but the reason they work well together is because there isn't too much overlap in their respectively targeted audiences. Because of this, the former just had a terrific opening in its big screen debut, and the latter only had a relatively tiny weekend-to-weekend drop in its second…

On March 12th, Overwatch 2 is bringing Cowboy Bebop to the game, and you’ll be able to unlock skins for the Bebop crew: Spike Spiegel as Cassidy, Faye Valentine as Ashe, Jet Black as Mauga, Ed as Sombra, while the adorable corgi Ein gets a Wreckingball skin. The detail that went into these legendary skins is blowing my mind. Cassidy’s gun is modeled off Spike’s iconic Swordfish ship. Ashe’s Faye skin transforms her robot companion (and ultimate ability) B.O.B. into Faye’s ship, the Redtail. In addition to the skins, there…

Fast approaching the 96th ceremony, the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, are the most prestigious accolades in show business. They reward artistic and technical achievement across filmmaking, music, and acting, but the top awards have remained consistent for many years.  Most headlines are saved for the Best Picture, Best Director, and actors and actresses in both lead and supporting roles. While an increasing number of entertainment awards have embraced gender-neutral categories, there’s no sign the Oscars will change…

I believe most of us have heard people saying, “Make sure you make a good first impression.” It’s definitely a very important moment influenced by implicit attitudes of which we are unaware, like age, race, culture, language, gender, physical appearance, accent, posture, voice and many other factors. Yet what if that first impression has already been set in stone a long time ago before we even have a chance to appear? That’s exactly what happened to a sweet pit bull puppy named Gigi.More info: InstagramLouis took home…

Meryl Streep is to the Oscars what peanut butter is to jelly — inseparable. You might like your peanut butter better with yogurt or on fruit, but the world will always associate it with jelly first. Streep, who has been acting since the 1970s, is the single most nominated actor, male or female, in Oscars history — her 21 nominations putting Jack Nicholson’s 12 to shame. These numbers are not surprising when you consider the legendary actress’ illustrious career, which has included classics like The Deer Hunter, The…

The lawyers who won the case against Elon Musk and Tesla over his CEO compensation plan want over $5 billion in Tesla stocks for their own compensation. In January, a judge sided with lawyers representing a Tesla shareholder alleging that Tesla’s board misrepresented Elon Musk’s CEO compensation package worth $55 billion when presenting to shareholders. It’s a complicated issue, but in short, the judge found that Tesla’s board and Musk didn’t play by the rules of a public company when it presented the…

Tiernan Ray/ZDNETSometimes, the best way to examine something is in the context of stuff you already know a little bit about. Or, at least, think you do.In that spirit, I recently tested Google's Gemini chat bot, formerly Bard, against OpenAI's ChatGPT-4. This test was part of a discussion of a key element in modern deep-learning forms of artificial intelligence (AI). This element is the kind of AI that underlies both ChatGPT and Gemini. That element is called 'stochastic gradient descent' (SGD).Also: ChatGPT vs.…

There are many interesting games going on in Julius Taranto’s How I Won a Nobel Prize, a novel about art and politics that seeks to skewer the prim puritans of radical wokery and the sweaty dinosaurs of the right. Part of the joke is that it is written very clearly in the style of, and in deep engagement with, a canon that literary America is doing its best to forget: Roth, Bellow and Updike are the obvious models. What’s more, as if snubbing his nose at those who will be looking for reasons to take offence, Taranto, a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAny belief that the Oscars award the right films, directors and performances has faded over the years.While every ceremony has a smattering of correct decisions – trophies handed to the right people for the right films – more often than not, the pervading feeling is one of pessimism caused by a deluge of undeserving recipients.The Oscars are a far cry from what they claim to be – a…

DUBAI —  An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by First Lady Jill Biden has been sentenced to more than three years in prison over his anthem supporting the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. Shervin Hajipour posted on Instagram on Friday, the same day that Iran held its parliamentary election, what appeared to be part of the judgment against him. It said Hajipour received a three-year, eight-month sentence on charges of “propaganda against the system” and “encouraging people to protest.” The court…