Horror Report

Category: Hollywood

  • Tim Burton lashes out against AI!

    Tim Burton lashes out against AI!

    In a recent interview with The Independent, Burton reacted in horror to the AI recreations of his trademark style. 

    “They had AI do my versions of Disney characters,” Burton said. “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you. It reminded me of when other cultures say, ‘Don’t take my picture because it is taking away your soul.’”

    “What it does is it sucks something from you,” he continued. “It takes something from your soul or psyche; that is very disturbing, especially if it has to do with you. It’s like a robot taking your humanity, your soul.”

  • Tonight show host Fallon on hot seat over rumors of alcoholism and mental abuse

    Tonight show host Fallon on hot seat over rumors of alcoholism and mental abuse

    The late night wars just got dark..

    Chaos, Comedy, and ‘Crying Rooms’: Inside Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’Sixteen current and former staffers say Fallon’s erratic behavior spoiled their “dream” of working on The Tonight Show YAHOO ENTERTAINMENT 

    It was a particularly tense day on the set of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The host, known for his warm and congenial presence onscreen, was acting especially dismissive and irritable during production meetings, a former longtime employee tells Rolling Stone. Then he stumbled through rehearsal in front of a studio audience, who typically sit in on rehearsals for the late-night show. Employees who spoke to Rolling Stone about their experiences working on The Tonight Show say it’s common knowledge behind the scenes that there are “good Jimmy days” — where Fallon’s wit and charm and creativity are on full display — and “bad Jimmy days.” This was a “bad Jimmy day,” according to the employee.

    There are reports of employees losing weight.. losing hair.. being on eggshells about Fallons temper and willingness to fire someone at a moments notice.

    The Stone piece goes on to detail rumors about Fallon and alcoholism .. it appears to be enough that Fallon is now seemingly a target of a Tonight Show cancellation…

    The Stone piece is a 20 minute read of intensity for Fallon ..

    Developing..

  • WGA West upgrades it battle: Tells government to regulate Disney, Netflix, and Amazon!

    WGA West upgrades it battle: Tells government to regulate Disney, Netflix, and Amazon!

    As Hollywood faces rains from Tropical Storm Hilary, another storm continues to play out: The ongoing writers strike may have just upgraded to hurricane status..

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    The WGA West escalated its fight against the AMPTP in the ongoing writer’s strike by calling on the government to regulate Disney, Netflix, and Amazon for monopolistic practices!!

    Released on Thursday, the report from the WGA West, titled “The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon, and Netflix Will Take Over Media,” said that studios have been engaging in “anti-competitive practices” by “abusing their dominance to further disadvantage competitors, raise prices for consumers, and push down wages for the creative workforce.”

    “Without intervention, these conglomerates will seize control of the media landscape and the streaming era’s advances for creativity and choice will be lost. These new gatekeepers have amassed market power through mergers and other anti-competitive practices, offering an alarming window into the future of media,” the report said.

    The escalations reveals the extreme measures both sides are going to publicly. This appears to be producing a drought of upcoming Hollywood entertainment..

    DEVELOPING..

  • Alec Baldwin may still face charges: Analysis shows he may have pulled the trigger on RUST set!

    Alec Baldwin may still face charges: Analysis shows he may have pulled the trigger on RUST set!

    Actor Alec Baldwin may face charges again in the “Rust” movie set shooting after a second analysis of the gun involved alleges he pulled the trigger. 

    Baldwin has consistently maintained that he did not pull the trigger of the pistol that fatally shot 42-year-old cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set in October 2021. 

    In April, involuntary manslaughter charges against him were dismissed, with prosecutors saying the gun might have been modified before the shooting and malfunctioned. Prosecutors commissioned a new analysis of the gun. 

    A new gun analysis report, dated Aug. 2, assembled for Santa Fe County special prosecutors Kari T. Morrissey and Jason J. Lewis  found that the gun was not modified.

  • They are going to try again!

    They are going to try again!

    The WGA and the AMPTP have agreed to resume bargaining for a deal that could end the guild’s ongoing strike.

    In a message to members Thursday, the guild said that Carol Lombardini, president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, “has asked the WGA Negotiating Committee to meet with AMPTP negotiators on Friday. We expect the AMPTP to provide responses to WGA proposals.”

    “Our committee returns to the bargaining table ready to make a fair deal, knowing the unified WGA membership stands behind us and buoyed by the ongoing support of our union allies,” the guild said.

  • Steeeeerikeeee … human fight back against AI in Hollywood

    Steeeeerikeeee … human fight back against AI in Hollywood

    One of the biggest tech advances is a major issue in the Hollywood strike..

    Striking SAG Actors in Disbelief Over Studios’ Dystopian AI Proposal

    During SAG-AFTRA negotiations, the studios allegedly demanded the ability to use AI on background actors for a day rate, owning their image

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    And their concern was justified, as chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland laid bare the AMPTP’s so-called “groundbreaking AI proposal,” which holds the potential to wipe out an entire pathway to breaking into the industry, as well as a reliable source of income for many. The reported proposal hinged on the ability for background actors to be “scanned, get paid for one day’s pay” and for that company to “own that scan of their image, their likeness, and to be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation.”

    “It literally was all of our worst fears confirmed when we heard that,” actress Jamie Miller tells Rolling Stone. “It’s kneecapping people from the start.”

    Just imagine if the studios win on this!! Solidarity with the unions!

    Picture it.. people like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, extras in their early career, would have been sold off after just one appearance. NO other extras for them. The studio would own their face and likeness. No chances for more movies. No chances to go to another studio. Just the same old face.. same old story. All without advancement at all.

    There are tons of issues at stake in this contract and strike. But the AI thing? that seems big.

  • Harrison Ford defends de-aging tech in new ‘Indiana Jones’

    Harrison Ford defends de-aging tech in new ‘Indiana Jones’

    Speaking at a press conference on Friday (May 19th), Ford defended using the technology. “I know that that is my face,” he said, per Entertainment Weekly. “It’s not a kind of Photoshop magic – that’s what I looked like 35 years ago. Because Lucasfilm has every frame of film that we’ve made together over all of these years.”

    He continued: “This process, this scientific mining of this library, this was put to good [use]… It’s just a trick unless it’s supported by a story, and it sticks out like a sore thumb if it’s not honest, it’s not real… I mean, emotionally real. And so I think it was used very skillfully.”
    — Read on faroutmagazine.co.uk/harrison-ford-defends-the-use-of-de-aging-new-indiana-jones/

  • Weinstein verdict in

    Weinstein verdict in

    Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of three of seven charges against him, including rape, Monday in a Los Angeles sexual assault trial in which prosecutors said he used his Hollywood influence to lure women into private meetings and assault them. 

    Jurors found Weinstein not guilty of one count of sexual battery by restraint against another woman. They were a hung jury on one count of sexual battery by restraint, one count of forcible oral copulation and one count of rape related to two other women – including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, first partner to California Governor Gavin Newsom.

    The three charges he was convicted of – rape, sexual penetration by foreign object and forcible oral copulation – were all tied to one of his accusers, a model and actress who testified the movie mogul assaulted her in a Beverly Hills hotel room in February 2013.

  • The Saudis ban Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    The Saudis ban Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Doctor Stranger was set to be released on May 5 in some Middle Eastern countries while American distribution would begin May 6..

    Until America Chavez came around..

    Actor Xochitl Gomez is playing the character.. Although it is not known how extensively America Chavez features in the film.

    The character is Marvel’s first Latin-American LGBTQIA+ character to appear in an ongoing comic book series – which is a major deal for representation.

    Other Gulf countries are also following and not allowing the film to be seen..

    Saudi Arabia has a history of banning movies for similar reasons. Marvel’s “The Eternals” was banned in Saudi Arabia, over its same-gender couple romance and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first gay superhero..

    DEVELOPING..

  • The sad decline of Bruce Willis

    The sad decline of Bruce Willis

    A few weeks ago we reported on circulating rumors that Bruce Willis was going to give up acting due to cognitive decline..

    That sadly now has become true..

    And it was almost getting dangerous according to some reporting.

    Bruce Willis, who is stepping away from acting amid cognitive difficulties caused by aphasia, alarmed movie staffers two years ago when he misfired a gun loaded with a blank — and last year perplexingly asked what he was doing on a film set, according to a report.

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    The 67-year-old “Die Hard” star, whose family announced Wednesday he had received the brain disorder diagnosis, had been exhibiting signs of decline on set in recent years, nearly two dozen sources concerned about his well-being told the Los Angeles Times.