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“The Marvels” is a flop. Narratives as to why greatly differ. Yet when male-directed and led films like “Napoleon” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” perform even worse with similar budgets, they&#82…

Carl Erik Rinsch spent millions that Netflix gave him for his sci-fi series on bets in the stock and cryptocurrency markets, The New York Times reported.

Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

In this article, I address the topic of content generation by artificial intelligence and its impact on the publishing market and, more broadly, on the quality of information available to readers. I present concerns about the quality and authenticity of AI-generated content in the context of disinformation and potential spam.

Do we really need fake images of the war?

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Why does one of the editors of the new anthology Critical Hits from Graywolf Press seem to think that there is no home for writing about video games from the personal, emotional perspective?

Stories of extensive evil, in which the threat is not a single villain, nor even a man-made pollution monster, but systemic structures of harm in which we are all complicit, offer tools to think th…

Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

“I see you, and you are as a mirror, and I see myself in you.”

The shocking story of how Count Von Count learned to count

"The Witcher" creator Andrzej Sapkowski, who wrote the original novels, says Netflix "never listened" to his ideas for the Henry Cavill series.

The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.

"There is a danger, these days, that if things only exist in the streaming version they do get taken down, they come and go," the director added.

Video game companies have laid off thousands of workers this year

Dave Filoni is now Lucasfilm's chief creative officer for Star Wars.

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that.

Doctor Who is getting what looks like a soft relaunch

Star Trek has always explored the desire for justice, but one 'Deep Space Nine' episode revealed just how complicated that desire can get.

At best, modern pop culture misremembers the 80s as a set of cultural signifiers to be repackaged as purchasable kitsch. At worst, it acknowledges things were bad back then only to assure viewers that things are much better now.

The filmmaker and comic book writer edited Greatest Hits, a new Ellison anthology arriving next year.

Everyone can be a hero these days, and that's something studios are keenly aware of.

The multitalented star of The Marvels discusses writing Ms. Marvel for Marvel Comics, with a little help from history and... Billy Joel?

Disney's self-admiration, a subpar script, and uninspired animation bog down Wish. It's not what anyone wishes from such a good idea.

In the annals of dystopian YA, perhaps none defined the subgenre so well as The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The films were largely successful by adaptation standards, being an effectiv…