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Legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick spent a lifetime trying to make his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, a reality. He had been struggling to make it from the moment he began making feature films, some 75 years ago. When he finally did, 25 years ago in 1999, it killed him. The plot centres on a physician (Tom Cruise) whose wife (Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair a year earlier. He becomes obsessed with having his own sexual encounter. When he discovers an underground sex group, he attends one of their masked orgies. Having not made a film in 12 years since Full Metal Jacket in 1987, Eyes Wide Shut was hotly...... Read Full article on HadNews

Prompt: Hollywood loses its minds over an advanced new generative AI model called Sora that can create lifelike, movie-trailer quality videos from a few short lines of text in minutes. That scenario unfolded last week when OpenAI, the San Francisco-based tech company behind the text-generating app ChatGPT and the image-generating tool DALL-E, teased its latest project, text-to-video AI model Sora. (The name is a Japanese word meaning sky that the creators chose because it “evokes the idea of limitless creative potential.” Or maybe they’re “Kingdom Hearts” fans). After seeing what Sora could do, Tyler Perry was the biggest name to sou...... Read Full article on HadNews

How Well Do Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos Really Know Each Other? The video "How Well Do Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos Really Know Each Other?" is a playful and entertaining look at the friendship and working relationship between actress Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos. The two engage in a game of trivia, answering questions about each other's lives and careers. The questions range from what film Yorgos repeatedly watches before starting on a new project to how many Academy Awards Emma Stone has been nominated for. The video also reveals some fun facts about both of them, such as Yorgos' childhood sports injury and Emma's tattoos an...... Read Full article on HadNews

Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things” was one of the biggest arthouse hits of 2023 and remains a frontrunner in several major Oscar categories. But as the film‘s award season run comes to a close, Lanthimos might already be looking ahead to his next directing gig. According to a new report in Variety, Lanthimos is planning to direct a remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2005 sci-fi satire “Save the Green Planet” for Element Pictures, which also produced “Poor Things.” The genre-bending film, which has long been a source of inspiration for cinematic provocateurs like Ari Aster, follows a man who captures and tortures a pharmaceutical executive that he b...... Read Full article on HadNews

OpenAI, the company behind the large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT, has announced Sora, a new text-to-video AI. Sora can “create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions,” according to OpenAI and it’s already got the internet talking. Reactions online have been highly varied, with some X users being very enthusiastic, whereas some are a lot more wary. Tech vlogger and reviewer Marques Brownlee, said in a Tweet with some videos from Sora “If this doesn’t concern you at least a little bit, nothing will.” Gabor Cselle, who was a Director at Google for over six years, prepared a comparison between...... Read Full article on HadNews