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Fumi Kitahara, a widely respected animation publicist who helped steer award-winning campaigns for studios including DreamWorks, Aardman, Laika, Netflix, and Disney, passed away on Monday due to complications from a rare form of blood cancer, her family announced. She was 56. “Dear Friends of Fumi-,” the family wrote, “We’re devastated to share that our dear […]
STATESVILLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man is wanted by N.C. State Highway Patrol after being accused of passing a stopped school bus on a motorcycle in Iredell County. Troopers say the incident occurred at 3:56 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, on Wallace Springs Road at Cara Lane. That’s when a motorcyclist traveling north on Wallace Springs reportedly passed a bus with its warning lights activated and stop-arm extended as children were getting off the bus. The motorcyclist almost struck the children and continued north. Video: Iredell County student jumps back as motorcyclist speeds by stopped school bus A person…
Apple is working on a fix for its text-to-speech feature, which momentarily transcribes the word “racist” as “Trump.” “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation, and we are rolling out a fix today,” an Apple spokesperson told Deadline. The bug happens when an iPhone user uses the Dictation […]
“We would like to convince all the major studios that they should keep movies in theaters longer,” the CEO of the nation’s largest exhibitor said today, noting that, yes, windows have shortened since Covid, but where they could ultimately wind up is is still “a very live debate right now.” As Hollywood experimented during and […]
Fox News showed big gains across the board in the past month, in what it said was its highest rated February in its history. Rivals MSNBC and CNN were well behind, but they did show improvement from a post-election fall off. During the first full month of the Trump administration, Fox News averaged 3.09 million […]
In what it called “a strategic change of direction,” Warner Bros. Games is scrapping a planned Wonder Woman game and also closing three development studios. The Warner Bros. Discovery division confirmed the moves to Deadline in a statement. “We have had to make some very difficult decisions to structure our development studios and investments around […]
Though no major studio ever planned this, the Oscar ceremony over the last three years post Covid fell on a weekend when there’s was a No. 1 film to brag about at the box office. Last year Oscar weekend had Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 opening to $57.9M, while 2023 had Paramount/Spyglass’ Scream VI […]
EXCLUSIVE: It appears a round of applause may be in order for Bravo, which has recently noted several audience wins across its unscripted series Southern Hospitality, Summer House and Below Deck Down Under. Southern Hospitality is leading the charge, averaging 1M seven-day cross-platform viewers per episode through the first six episodes of Season 3, per […]
Roberto “Bob” Gaston Orci, a writer-producer who worked on some of the biggest action-adventure and sci-fi movies and television shows from the first two decades of the century, died at his home in Los Angeles today, Feb. 25, after a battle with kidney disease. He was 51. Born and raised in Mexico City, Orci moved […]
Slamdance is nearing the final day of its 2025 edition, a historic one for the festival founded in 1995 as a scrappy alternative to Sundance. The cinematic showcase has made a new home for itself in Los Angeles after spending its first three decades in Park City, Utah, very much in the shadow of Robert […]