The digital avatar’s rollout feels like a stunt meant to normalize gen AI’s creep into Hollywood.
While the six-minute-long Pokémon Legends: Z-A overview Nintendo just posted doesn’t feature all that much new information, it does give us an even better look at many of the game’e snazzy new character customization options.
Fortnite wasted no time cooking up its KPop Demon Hunters collaboration that will see the Huntr/x girls squadding up to slay monsters in a movie-inspired version of the game’s Horde Rush mode running from October 2nd to November 1st. Naturally, Rumi, Zoey, and Mira skins will also be coming to the Fortnite Shop.
Noah Hawley talks about turning Alien into a TV series following the season 1 finale.
President Donald Trump’s nebulous plan / threat to impose an 100% tariff on movies produced outside of the US never materialized when he trotted it out earlier this year. But Trump has begun banging that drum once again, which could mean Hollywood is in for a new way of production-related headaches.
[The Hollywood Reporter]
AI startups want to brute force their way into the movie business, even though the tech isn’t ready for its closeup.
Lionsgate has been hyping up generative AI ever since it partnered with Runway to build a model trained on the studio’s IP. But TheWrap reports that the companies have been struggling to get the model to generate anything usable because the “Lionsgate catalog isn’t enough to create those kinds of large-scale projects.”
Deluxe Pack ex, the newest Pokémon TCG Pocket expansion, will feature reprinted cards from multiple previously-released sets. But this time around, many of the cards will feature fancy new artwork, and each Deluxe pack will include at least one high-rarity card. The expansion will be available from September 29th to October 29th.
Avatar: Fire and Ash’s villanous Na’vi clan believes that Eywa has forsaken them in the movie’s latest trailer, but all the shots of Pandora’s bioluminescent creatures rising up in revolt make it seem like the planet’s collective consciousness isn’t gone — it has just been waiting to make a move.