Tag: Westworld
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Westworld Season 3 Had Serious Problems with Its Character Arcs
The third season of Westworld really hammered home that showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy lack the nuts-and-bolts storytelling to deliver on the big ideas their series reaches for. It’s fine to make a show about free will, predestination, privacy, and security, but what carries a dramatic series like this forward is investment in the…
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X-Men: The Last Stand Almost Forced James Marsden To Choose Between Two Superhero Movies
Does James Marsden’s agent have something against him? For the majority of his career, Marsden has played characters that are the equivalent of tapioca pudding. He was the nice guy who Rachel McAdams dumps for Ryan Gosling in “The Notebook.” Then he was the nice guy Lois Lane hooked up with while Superman was away…
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Amazon Prime Video Cancels A League Of Their Own And The Peripheral After Previously Renewing Them
While we won’t know how the negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Writers Guild of America (WGA) turn out until we hear directly from the union, Amazon Studios is now the first to specifically cite the strikes as the justification for canceling, I’m sorry, un-renewing a show. The Chloë…
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Zahn McClarnon’s ‘Westworld’ Episode Is Still the Show’s Best
HBO’s Westworld has always been interested in exploring grand ideas — about consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence and the like. While these ideas are always interesting to ponder, the show at times felt detached from human emotions, and often came off as a host yet to solve the maze of sentience. It’s this very obsession…
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This Is What Putting HBO Shows on Netflix Means for the Future of Streaming
As if June 2023 wasn’t already a chaotic enough month for WarnerDiscovery between the gutting of Turner Classic Movies and The Flash becoming one of the biggest box office flops in history, this conglomerate faced further blowback with the news that it was planning to sell off HBO shows to rival streamers. While certain HBO…
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‘Black Mirror’ Season 6: This Is the Best Part of “Beyond the Sea”
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Black Mirror is at its best when it’s holding a mirror up to current society and its technological anxieties. However, this season of
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Mark Dacascos-Starring ‘Glass Dragon’ Picked up by MPI Media (Exclusive)
Mixed martial arts thriller “Glass Dragon” has been picked up for international sales by MPI Media. The company is launching the title at the Cannes Market.The film, now in post-production, is produced by Asia-facing Los Angeles company Eleven Arts and Re:Anime, a firm that adapts beloved anime series into captivating live-action films.“Glass Dragon” stars Miki…
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Sundance Debut ‘Starling Girl’ Acquired for International Sales by Architect (Exclusive)
New sales agent and financier Architect has come on board to represent international sales on writer-director Laurel Parmet’s Sundance-premiering “The Starling Girl.”The film was acquired for North America by Bleecker Street in a deal negotiated by UTA and WME, and will release in cinemas later this year. Architect will launch international sales at this week’s…
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Evan Rachel Wood, Josh Gad & Anthony Carrigan To Star In Alex Winter’s ‘The Adults’
“Westworld” may have come to an abrupt end, but Evan Rachel Wood is staying busy. The three-time Emmy nominee is set to star in Alex Winter’s “The Adults,” a project looking for financing at the European Film Market later this month. The project will also star Josh Gad and Anthony Carrigan.Read More: HBO cancels “Westworld”…
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The Never-Ending ‘Seinfeld’ AI Shows Signs of Becoming Self Aware: ‘Why Are We Here?’
That unending “Seinfeld” AI show is starting to seem more like “Westworld.”“Nothing, Forever” currently streams on Twitch in a 24-7 loop. In one-minute doses, the show uses AI tools like Gpt-3 and Dall-e, all trained on classic ’90s sitcom scripts to generate miniature scenes of four different characters, each modeled loosely off the look and…