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Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
Someone get these agents out of here.

This single-serving site, IMAXXING, lets you punch in your closest theater, a few parameters, and a notification window to get an email alert when seats to The Odyssey are available — theoretically a handy, low-stakes use of AI agents. (You’ll just have to ignore the image of Clavicular as Odysseus and the repeated incorrect usage of “frame mogging” on the webpage.)

Does it work? I signed up, so we’ll see if I can get a ticket for the Lincoln Square AMC in the next month. Similarly, OpenAI has a social video about how to set up an agent to check for tickets too.

IMAXXING The Odyssey

[IMAXXING The Odyssey]

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
The pause on Paramount’s $110 billion WBD deal has been extended for another fortnight.

US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a decision Thursday extending her temporary restraining order to a total of 28 days, report The Wrap and Variety. The mega media merger is paused for now due to lawsuits by a group of state AGs and the Writers’ Guild of America, as the judge plans to “hear the two motions for preliminary injunction on the same schedule” and has scheduled a hearing for August 3rd.

Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Meet the new Avatar.

Though Avatar: Seven Havens was originally slated to debut some time in 2027, Paramount has given the series a new October 9th premiere date — which is previously when Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender was going to drop before it leaked onto the internet — and released a tantalizing new teaser.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Hunter hunting.

Amazon’s Blade Runner streaming series has been in the works for ages, but it’s starting to feel a little more real. Entertainment Weekly just dropped the first images from the show, featuring stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, while also confirming that Blade Runner 2099 is expected to come out this year.

A still image of Hunter Schafer in Blade Runner 2099.
Image: Entertainment Weekly / Amazon
Marina Galperina
Marina Galperina
Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary is nearly here and almost four hours long.

The acclaimed documentarian who’s taken on Enron, Elizabeth Holmes, and so many more is finally showing Musk. It almost wrapped up in 2025, but then… Premiering at the 83rd Venice Film Festival in September, the “hit piece” (according to Elon Musk in 2023) clocks in at 232 minutes. There’s a lot of ground to cover. Absent from the VFF line-up: Luca Guadagnino’s film about Sam Altman, Artificial.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
The Morning Show heads off into the night.

Apple announced that one of its biggest early hits will be coming back for a fifth and final season in 2027. The Morning Show premiered alongside Apple TV as one of its prestige plays, with a notably star-studded cast. The news comes the same day Apple announced a new dating series.

A still photo from the TV series The Morning Show.
Image: Apple
Meredith Haggerty
Meredith Haggerty
Merriam-Webster tags in.

The internet’s favorite dictionary just dropped a new word game, Tagline — and, surprisingly, there’s not a definition in sight. The game consists of three increasingly difficult clues with hangman-style answers to guess. The twist is that all the solutions are made up entirely from the same seven letters.

The new Halo remake is a reminder of what Xbox used to be

Halo: Campaign Evolved is excellent, but it’s launching at a very awkward time.

Andrew Webster
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
All rise.

The final Coyote vs. Acme trailer underlines how much the movie’s really about consumer safety — a very topical subject that David Zaslav apparently didn’t think would resonate with audiences. The movie’s out August 28th.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Apple TV’s first date.

The streamer announced its first dating show, called The Last Person on Earth, which it describes as an “eight-episode dating documentary series” about how opposites attract. No word on when it will release, but it’s part of a steady push from Apple to make its streaming service more mainstream.

Apple TV wants to go big

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Splat!

That’s the sound of the Splatoon series exploring a new genre with Splatoon Raiders, which is Nintendo’s take on looter shooters. I quite enjoyed my time with the game, but you can check it out for yourself now, as it launches today on the Switch 2.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Amazon leaked a buildable Halo Warthog from Mattel, not Lego.

Mattel’s older Mega line of building sets included a couple of Halo sets featuring the Warthog, but Amazon Australia leaked a larger and more detailed 935-piece buildable UNSC M12 Warthog that’s part of Mattel’s recent Brick Shop line. There’s no pricing, but the model includes working independent suspension and customizable detailing.

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1/3Image: Mattel
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Welcome to Raccoon City.

It’s already been a pretty great year for horror, and that looks to continue with the new Resident Evil, helmed by Weapons director Zach Cregger. The latest trailer makes the movie seem both like a new twist on the franchise, and also like it’s pulling inspiration from the most recent games.

The sci-fi movie that imagines AI isn’t so dystopian after all

An interview with ‘Sheep in the Box’ director Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Robyn Kanner
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Artistic intent.

Sure, it’s just a poster, but should Ryan Gosling’s “La La Hand” been kept as it was?

.catalyst_:

I know it doesn’t matter, and he has expressed that he’d like it changed, but in a world where AI can change anything you want in a second, it feels like an actor’s intentional choice at the time of production is important. That hand being wrong takes away from the moment that this piece of art was made in.

Again probably doesn’t matter, I’m sure all parties are consenting. It is okay to make a mistake and have that mistake live and breathe, it makes the art just a little more human, and that is so important.

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