Amy Poehler Slams AI Actress Tilly Norwood on ‘Saturday Night Live’: “You’ll Never Be Able to Write a Joke, You Stupid Robot!”

Amy Poehler Slams AI Actress Tilly Norwood on ‘Saturday Night Live’: “You’ll Never Be Able to Write a Joke, You Stupid Robot!”

Amy Poehler kicked off her Saturday Night Live opening monologue by commemorating the official 50th anniversary of the show’s first episode — while also pointing out some of the major advancements in technology since its debut. The Good Hang podcast host affirmed it was “actually a very special night for the show, not just because…

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Yorgos Lanthimos Jokes He Needs an AI Avatar to Get Out of Promoting His Films: “Do I Have to Say the Same Thing a Thousand Times?”

Yorgos Lanthimos Jokes He Needs an AI Avatar to Get Out of Promoting His Films: “Do I Have to Say the Same Thing a Thousand Times?”

Yorgos Lanthimos might be on board with AI, after all. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, director of movies The Favourite, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, jokingly told BFI London Film Festival attendees on Saturday that he’s willing to send out a computer-generated avatar of himself if it helps him get out of promotional duties. Lanthimos spoke…

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Marco Bellocchio Brings the Fall of Enzo Tortora to the Screen in HBO Max’s ‘Portobello’

Marco Bellocchio Brings the Fall of Enzo Tortora to the Screen in HBO Max’s ‘Portobello’

For Portobello, its first Italian original production, HBO Max is taking us back to 1980s Italy and one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in the country’s history. Legendary Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor, Kidnapped) directed and co-wrote the six-episode series, which tells the story of the downfall and imprisonment of popular TV…

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‘No Other Choice’: First Trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Latest Masterpiece Reveals a Korean Dad Driven to Darkness

‘No Other Choice’: First Trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Latest Masterpiece Reveals a Korean Dad Driven to Darkness

The first official trailer for Korean maestro Park Chan-wook‘s pitch-black comedy thriller No Other Choice has arrived.  Neon dropped the extended look at the buzzy film (below) late Thursday — and it delivers all of the pricky anticipation, dread and virtuosic style viewers have come to expect from the Korean maestro behind Old Boy, The…

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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Unveils Competition Lineup That “Holds up a Mirror to Our World”

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Unveils Competition Lineup That “Holds up a Mirror to Our World”

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) in Estonia unveiled its competition and first feature competition lineups and the international jury for its 2025 official selection on Friday. The main competition for the 29th edition of the festival includes 17 feature films, with 16 world premieres and one international premiere. “This year’s selection follows an impressive number of submissions:…

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Stockholm Fest to Honor Alexander Skarsgård, Benny Safdie

Stockholm Fest to Honor Alexander Skarsgård, Benny Safdie

Alexander Skarsgård and Benny Safdie will be honored at this year’s Stockholm Film Festival, with the Swedish actor receiving Stockholm’s Achievement Award, and the New York director getting the festival’s Visionary Award. Skarsgård’s latest Pillion, in which he stars as a domineering biker who begins a turbulent relationship with the submissive Colin, played by Harry…

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Tech Company Unveils AI-Generated Music Video Hosts

Tech Company Unveils AI-Generated Music Video Hosts

Tilly Norwood was only the beginning. FastStream Interactive, a group that designs tech for interactive TV channels, on Tuesday unveiled its new line of AI-generated TV presenters. The computer-generated images will be placed on FastStream’s interactive TV music channel, ROXi, mimicking MTV-style presenters by introducing musicians and clips. The interactive free-TV channel airs on Nextgen…

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