The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — but that how it’s used could.

That seems fair.

The Brutalist used AI to improve Hungarian accents, which seems a reasonable use for it. They also used it to generate photographs of fictional buildings, which has done someone out of a job. However, someone else has to come up with the prompts and sift through the results, it just feels a bit… Cheap? Low effort?

As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.

And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.

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And a general one: !starwarstelevision@lemmy.world

Let’s not forget: !thegoodplace@lemmy.world

And there is the Community community !communitytv@lemmy.world

I have some in the sidebar of !britishtelly@feddit.uk:

British TV shows on Feddit.uk:

• !gbbo@feddit.uk - Great British Bake Off
• !montypython@feddit.uk
• !peepshow@feddit.uk
• !reddwarf@feddit.uk
• !taskmaster@feddit.uk

And elsewhere in the Fediverse:

• !doctorwho@lemmy.world
• !doctorwho@startrek.website
• !reddwarf@lemmy.world

I’d guess that, while this is heading to the cinema, Amazon would be looking to start a TV series too.

Poop and shower? Waffle stomp?

The hose clamp is for fixing your undergarments.

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It was badly conceived, planned, cast, executed and then undermined by studio interference. It failed at every single level and I don’t think Covid can take the blame.

Strong central performances save a plot with some pretty contrived plot developments. Worth a watch but you have to suspend belief. So a lot like the Church.

It’s a dovecote and outbuilding behind a large mansion house.

I ran through a few permutations but “cock-up” and “low-ball” just didn’t work.

I have no wish to know about your privy passage, sir!

If I lost the wife and kids in a freak combine harvester accident

🤔 Seen this?

Turn one of the two bollocks into a home office and have the other bollock for a bedroom. Just not sure if I’d want to sleep in the top bollock or the bottom bollock, though.

Depends on your bladder. Bottom bollock bedroom gives quick privy access.

Hope this helps:

Yeah, I really enjoyed it. If you liked the first two, then you’ll also like this.