Nicolas Winding Refn Tried To Use AI To Help With Writing A Script But The Tech Told Him To “Seek Professional Help”

EXCLUSIVE: North America’s largest genre festival, Fantasia, is currently in full flow, but amid two Hollywood strikes, its staff are speaking out about what they deem to be horror conditions.

While it’s many musicians’ dreams to do a collab with Tim McGraw, his dream song partners have no interest in singing with him.

Tim McGraw has some thoughts on one big McGraw collaboration for his next album.

TIFF has announced the ten titles in its Platform programme, a sidebar which will be teed off by the A24 Kristoffer Borgli comedy Dream Scenario starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage. This year’s Platform includes movies from 12 countries across three continents, all of which are making their world premiere at TIFF.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby told Empire magazine they made a pact to shock each other while filming Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” in order to ensure the film did not feel like a boring, overly-planned biopic. This agreement led Phoenix to slap Kirby during the filming of a heated divorce scene between their characters, Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empire reports. “We were using the real words from their divorce in the church,” Kirby said.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ridley Scott told Empire magazine that Joaquin Phoenix felt clueless two weeks before cameras were set to start rolling on their historical epic “Napoleon.” The film marks a long-in-the-works reunion between the director and the Oscar-winning actor, who worked together over two decades ago on “Gladiator.” Phoenix is headlining the film as the French emperor opposite Venessa Kirby as his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. “He’ll come in, and you’re fucking two weeks’ out, and he’ll say, ‘I don’t know what to do’,” Scott said about Phoenix. “I’ll say, ‘What?!’ ‘I don’t know what to do.’ Oh God.

Lady Gaga is remembering her friend, Tony Bennett, in a touching tribute.

So what’s Nicolas Winding Refn been up to lately, besides advocating for WGA and SAG guild members to “burn it all down”? He’s hard at work in the UK shooting his next TV series after “Copenhagen Cowboy.” And it’s a strange project for Refn to do, to say the least. The Danish director is adapting Enid Blyton‘s “The Famous Book” children’s book series for the BBC.

Catherine Tyldesley's latest sensational appearance has left fans floored as the former Coronation Street showed her 'divine beauty' in a string of black and white snaps. Fans best know the actress for appearing in the ITV soap but she couldn't have looked further from her days on the cobbles.

Recently, we talked about a mysterious new film that Travis Scott was working on alongside Harmony Korine. While there is now more information about the film (it’s called “Aggro Dr1ft” and is set to premiere at Venice), that’s not the only project these two have been working on together.

Nearly four decades after Back to the Future hit movie screens, the original cast reunited to celebrate the film’s brand-new stage adaptation.

Naman Ramachandran Casting for the beloved “Famous Five” stories of Enid Blyton, which are being reimagined for the BBC and ZDF by Nicolas Winding Refn, has been revealed. Diaana Babnicova is playing the role of George, alongside Elliott Rose as Julian, Kit Rakusen as Dick, Flora Jacoby Richardson as Anne, playing George’s cousins who come to stay at Kirrin Cottage. Making up the fifth member of the “Famous Five” is Kip, the Bearded Collie Cross playing Timmy the dog.

Nicholas Winding Refn’s ‘Famous Five’ Adaptation Sets Cast

Travis Scott has confirmed details of his new album and an accompanying movie. Circus Maximus is the title of the film, which Scott confirmed he made alongside "some of my favorite directors." A poster for the movie lists Gaspar Noé, Nicolas Winding Refn, Harmony Korine, Valdimar Jóhannsson, and Kahlil Joseph among collaborators on the project.

Paul Simon has said that he has tried to practice with his live band with the hope of returning to touring.The legendary announced his retirement from touring in 2018, playing his final ever concert in Queens, just minutes from where he grew up.During the final gig, Simon hinted that he would be “open” to playing “one-off” performances in the future, and appeared at Newport Folk Festival last summer in a surprise return to the stage.Now, he’s spoken to Mojo about his retirement, and how he has tried to work past the hearing loss that has stopped him from returning to touring.Discussing new music, Simon said: “I have three songs in motion. One of them is finished.

A bachelorette party at a remote desert house is suddenly terrorized by home invaders.

John Krasinski had quite the reaction after finding out Matt Damon had turned down 2009’s “Avatar”.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Amid deep concerns about the risks posed by artificial intelligence, the Biden administration has lined up commitments from seven tech companies — including OpenAI, Google and Meta — to abide by safety, security and trust principles in developing AI. Reps from seven “leading AI companies” — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — are scheduled to attend an event Friday at the White House to announce that the Biden-Harris administration has secured voluntary commitments from the companies to “help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology,” according to the White House.

With 'heavy hearts', doctors took to the streets to demand better pay and conditions - warning the NHS could face a 'bleak' future if a deal isn't struck. Scores of medics took part as the 48-hour strike began on Thursday (July 20). It's the first walkout of its kind in a decade.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “Decorado,” the awaited next animated feature film from Alberto Vázquez, director of 2015’s “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” and last year’s “Unicorn Wars,” has been boarded by Le Pacte.     One of France’s most important independent film companies, a distributor in France of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” and Ken Loach’s “I: Daniel Blake” among its biggest foreign hits, Le Pacte, headed by Jean and Alice Labadie, has acquired rights to “Decorado” for distribution in France and international sales. “We picked up ‘Decorado’ because we were in love with ‘Unicorn Wars’ and ‘Decorado is even crazier,” said Jean Labadie. “We love animation and bold projects which are out of boundaries.”