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| NYCC: Nicolas Cage: 'I am not an A.I.-friendly actor' | Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure and Con Air icon Nicolas Cage says he wants to continue to evolve as an artist, but refuses to compromise his integrity in the name of technical progress. "I'm trying to find a way of surviving with film performance in a very different world that is growing exponentially with so much information, so quickly," Cage, 62, told the crowd at New York Comic Con Saturday. "How can you become relevant as things are moving so fast? So, I'm still looking for that and I don't really have an exact answer," he explained. "How do you survive A.I.? Amazon is a very A.I.-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion to OpenAI. I am not an A.I.-friendly actor, so connect those dots. |
| Michelle Yeoh plays a Replicant in 'Blade Runner 2099' trailer | Prime Video released a 2 1/2-minute trailer for its new limited series, Blade Runner 2099, at New York Comic Con this weekend. "Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity," the streaming service said in a synopsis. "Cora (Hunter Schafer), a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse a fragile city." Also starring Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben and Matthew Needham, the sci-fi thriller premieres Nov. 25 on Prime Video. The showrunner/creator/executive producer is Silka Luisa. |
| 'Other Mommy' tops North American box office with $27.5M | Other Mommy is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $27.5 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo announced Sunday. Coming in at No. 2 is Verity with $11.5 million, followed by Resident Evil at No. 3 with $8.4 million, Heart of the Beast at No. 4 with $7.1 million and The Social Reckoning at No. 5 with $5.5 million. Rounding out the top tier are Forgotten Island at No. 6 with $4.5 million, Primetime at No. 7 with $4 million, Digger at No. 8 with $3.2 million, Angel and the Badman at No. 9 with $2.1 million and The Odyssey at No. 10 with $2 million. |
| Famous birthdays for Oct. 11: Emily Deschanel, Matt Bomer | Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include: -- YMCA founder George Williams in 1821 -- Entrepreneur Henry John Heinz in 1844 -- U.S. |
| Willem Dafoe says 'Tenzing' tested his physical limits | Aquaman, Poor Things and Nosferatu alum Willem Dafoe says team work -- on and off the screen -- was integral to his fact-based, mountain-climbing film, Tenzing. Directed by renowned documentarian Jennifer Peedom, the story follows Dafoe's British Army Col. John Hunt, leader of the first team of climbers, including Himalayan Tenzing Norgay (Genden Phuntsok) and New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston), to successfully summit Mount Everest in 1953. "All the actors, all the Sherpas, all the Australian and Kiwi actors were great because we had to help each other," Dafoe, 71, told UPI in a Zoom interview Thursday. "When you're on the mountain, even when you're not climbing, it's tough. The conditions are hard. There's no shelter. |