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“It Ends With Us” actor and director Justin Baldoni’s legal battle with Blake Lively hit a roadblock Monday when a federal judge dismissed his $400 million countersuit. Baldoni and production company Wayfarer Studios sued Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for defamation in January.He sought at least $400 million for damages that included lost future income. It also named publicist Leslie Sloane as a defendant.Baldoni filed his lawsuit about two weeks after Lively sued him and others tied to the film, alleging harassment and that a coordinated campaign was launched to ruin her reputation after she came forward about allegations…
Disney and Universal joined forces in a lawsuit against artificial intelligence image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement.It is the first AI copyright lawsuit from Hollywood giants.The lawsuit claims that the company used and distributed AI-generated characters from the movie studios like Star Wars, The Simpsons and other films and alleges that Midjourney disregarded requests to stop.The studios included numerous examples in the suit of AI-generated images of characters from Cars, Toy Story, Shrek, The Avengers and the minions from Despicable Me.Disney and Universal are demanding a jury trial, arguing that the actions threaten to “upend the bedrock incentives of U.S.…
It wasn’t exactly the verdict that Harvey Weinstein accuser Kaja Sokola had hoped for, but it was the verdict she said women determined to fight against sexual predators needed. Sokola, a former runway model from Poland, was one of three women who accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting them more than a decade ago. On Wednesday, a Manhattan jury found Weinstein guilty of assaulting former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley but not her. And it deadlocked on a third-degree rape charge against Weinstein in the alleged sexual assault of former actor Jessica Mann. “It’s not ideal for me,” Sokola told…
The Schwartz will be with us again.Mel Brooks will reprise his “Spaceballs” role as Yogurt in the upcoming sequel to the hit 1987 “Star Wars” spoof that will be released in theaters.The comedy legend, 98, hyped the new movie in a post on X on June 12.“I told you we’d be back,” Brooks captioned the post.The clip features words scrolling on the screen, “Star Wars”-style, with music underneath.The video begins by poking fun at how many “Star Wars” movies have been made in the years since “Spaceballs” came out in 1987. It goes on to joke about the high volume…
When Celine Song wrote the script for her debut feature film, “Past Lives,” she was inspired by a conversation she had at a New York bar with her husband and her childhood sweetheart, who was visiting from South Korea.While translating between Korean and English for these important men in her life, she discovered that she was also translating “two parts of myself,” Song explained in an interview with BAFTA.The romantic drama, starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, showcased a love triangle — but one that Song has previously described as the past, present and future of her life and the…
LOS ANGELES — Across Hollywood, talking about it publicly can sometimes be taboo. Using it without disclosing that you did could make you the center of controversy. And protesting its use has been the norm. But even amid widespread vocal pushback against generative artificial intelligence, industry leaders say its use in film and TV is slowly becoming mainstream. More filmmakers are using evolving AI tools, and studios are partnering with AI companies to explore how they can use the technology in content creation. “It’s being used by everybody that doesn’t talk about the fact that they’re using it,” Michael Burns,…
MONTREAL — When they began working together on the new “F1” movie, Formula 1 living legend Lewis Hamilton was pleasantly surprised to see that Brad Pitt knew what he was doing behind the wheel of a race car.“He had a bit of a feel for it already. It wasn’t completely alien. I worked as a driver coach when I was a kid just to make a bit of money on the side, and I had some pretty bad drivers along the way!” Hamilton, a seven-time world champion who races for Ferrari and is a producer for the movie, told NBC…
Actor David Hekili Kenui Bell, who appeared in Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” live adaption that released last month, has died, according to his family and a representative. He was 46.His sister, Jolene Kanani Bell, announced his passing on Facebook on Sunday. “It is with a heavy heart I share that my sweet, generous, talented, funny, brilliant and handsome little brother David H. K. Bell will spend today in the company of our Heavenly Father,” she wrote.”I’ve been waiting for the words and mindset to properly express the joy of a human, and Prince of a Man he was, but fate…
Jeremy Allen White is showing the world he does a pretty good Bruce Springsteen as he stars as the iconic singer in a new trailer for the upcoming biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”The film “chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 ‘Nebraska’ album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past,” 20th Century Studios said in a statement.“Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his…
A federal judge denied Blake Lively’s request to keep some of her private text messages with Taylor Swift from Justin Baldoni, a major legal victory for the embattled “It Ends with Us” actor and director. U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman deemed in a court filing Wednesday that Baldoni’s requests for some messages between Lively and Swift were permissible.Baldoni’s legal team will have access to text messages only about “It Ends with Us,” the judge ruled. Lively and Baldoni starred in the 2024 film, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling romance novel “It Ends with Us,” which is at the center…