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‘Fallout’ Nails Video Game Adaptations by Making the Apocalypse Fun
11Apr By adminNo Comments
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‘Fallout’ Nails Video Game Adaptations by Making the Apocalypse Fun

Nolan tasked Fallout showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet with threading that particular needle. The pair chose to center the series around three protagonists, played by Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, and Aaron Clifton Moten, all of whom enter the story at a turning point in their lives. As a cowboy movie star turned ghoul, Goggins’ character is cold and lawless, a set of emotions you have to imagine stems from the loss he’s felt in the 219 years since the first bombs fell. Moten is Maximus, a former orphan who joins up with the paramilitary tech protectors in the Brotherhood of Steel and stumbles his way into a chance at greatness. Purnell is Lucy MacLean, a naive Vault Dweller who sets off into the Wasteland in pursuit of her kidnapped father (Kyle MacLachlan).“All of th...
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Pop Music Is Mad. Social Media Loves It
10Apr By adminNo Comments
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Pop Music Is Mad. Social Media Loves It

Not everyone is buying it. Despite the study’s findings, “I don’t believe hip-hop lyrics are more angry,” says Dame Aubrey, head of A&R for CMG Records and Management, a music label that represents rappers Moneybagg Yo, BlocBoy JB, and GloRilla. If anything, Aubrey says, what changes we do hear are a product of how music has expanded. It’s simple, Aubrey says: more people, more perspectives. The medium is more accessible now because of the technology available. “There’s just a lot more artists with opportunities to be heard because it basically became a trend to make music.”One major adjustment in all of this is the mechanics of how a song gets popular, and what its popularity generates.In the age of social media, that can often translate into more of the same kinds of sounds, althoug...
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The 15 Most Anticipated Shows of 2024
1Jan By adminNo Comments
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The 15 Most Anticipated Shows of 2024

US release date: January 14, MaxDeath and Other DetailsMandy Patinkin goes full Hercule Poirot (minus the pristine mustache) as Rufus Cotesworth, the world’s greatest detective. He’s trapped on a luxury ocean liner with some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, one of whom may be a murderer. It’s up to Cotesworth and his sidekick to figure it all out.US release date: January 16, HuluExpatsNicole Kidman’s first big move to the small screen, in Big Little Lies, was an impressive feat for the Oscar winner. Her more recent television output, including the second season of Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, Roar, and the utterly baffling Faraway Downs, has been more miss than hit. Could this Prime series, based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s bestselling novel, turn it aro...
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Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hollywood Actors Strike Ends With a Deal That Will Impact AI and Streaming for Decades

After 118 days on the picket lines, the longest such strike in Hollywood’s history, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has reached a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Both sides were mum about the terms of the deal Wednesday night, but it comes following a long struggle over the use of artificial intelligence on actors’ performances and actors’ demands for residual payments for shows and films that play on streaming services.A committee from SAG, which represents thousands of film and television actors, approved the agreement Wednesday. The strike itself, which has featured pickets outside the offices of Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and others, will end Thursday morning. It’s expected that the tentative ...
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‘The Black Book’ Is Nigeria’s First Runaway Netflix Hit
22Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘The Black Book’ Is Nigeria’s First Runaway Netflix Hit

Editi Effiong’s excitement is infectious. It’s less than three weeks since his crime thriller, The Black Book, premiered on Netflix, and the movie has already been watched more than 70 million times. “I’ve been in a very happy place,” Effiong says. “You create a thing and watch it go out in the world, it would make [anyone] happy.”The Black Book is one of the most expensive Nigerian movies ever made, with a $1 million budget raised in part from Nigeria’s tech elite, including the cofounder of fintech unicorn Flutterwave, Gbenga Abgoola, and Piggyvest’s Odun Eweniyi. The movie’s success—it claimed the most-watched spot on the platform in South Korea and has been the number-two ranked film in several countries across South America for over a week—makes it one of Nigeria’s rare breakouts on ...
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Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Working—for Now
19Oct By adminNo Comments
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Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Working—for Now

If it’s not the company motto yet, it should be: Never count Netflix out. On Wednesday, the streaming giant beat Wall Street projections by reporting a gain of nearly 9 million new subscribers worldwide and $8.5 billion in revenue for the third quarter of 2023, a nearly 8 percent increase year-over-year. While that might all sound like a bunch of finance bro brouhaha, it’s also remarkable considering the very tumultuous three years the company—and Hollywood—has had.Consider the company’s crackdown on password sharing. The long-planned killjoy campaign rolled out in the US and UK in May 2023. It came on the heels of a topsy-turvy time for streaming, when Netflix was facing increased competition from new streamers like Disney+ and HBO Max (now known as Max) and losing subscribers for the fi...
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Netflix will reportedly turn more of its hit shows into games
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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Netflix will reportedly turn more of its hit shows into games

Netflix is making moves to expand its mobile gaming offerings. Soon, subscribers will see more shows made by Netflix made into mobile games, according to a by the Wall Street Journal, like Squid Game and Wednesday.While mobile gaming is not entirely new to Netflix, it's still trying to find its place in the company’s business model. Right now, the Netflix app prompts users to download and play games like Exploding Kittens: The Game or Ghost Detective on the app store where you can play on the platform. But eventually, Netflix subscribers will be able to play games directly on their . This push into gaming by the streaming giant is preceded by the company’s recent release of a dedicated for iOS devices that lets a player use their phone as a gamepad with a paired TV.From the start, Netfl...
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