Anthony Bourdain’s AI-Faked Voice in New Documentary Sparks Backlash

FX has ordered new installments in the New York Times Presents franchise, which is behind such acclaimed documentaries as Framing Britney Spears.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOak View Group — the venue-development, advisory, and investment company for the sports and live entertainment industries founded by Irving Azoff and Tim Lieweke — has announced a long-term partnership with Ticketmaster, the Live Nation-owned largest ticketing company in the world, covering six of OVG’s new arenas.

EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony is moving into podcasting.

Anthony Bourdain say words he never spoke has drawn criticism amid ethical concerns about use of the powerful technology.The movie “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” appeared in cinemas Friday and mostly features real footage of the beloved celebrity chef and globe-trotting television host before he died in 2018.

The filmmakers behind "Framing Britney Spears" are speaking out about the documentary’s impact on the pop star’s ongoing conservatorship court battle.  The documentary from the New York Times debuted on FX on Hulu in February and shined a light on the situation that the "Toxic" singer has been putting up with for the past 13 years under her father’s legal conservatorship.

For movies, the best thing to happen last week was documentarian Morgan Neville’s flip response to The New Yorker’s query about his having covertly used artificial intelligence to voice some of Anthony Bourdain’s lines in the film Roadrunner.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticI first learned that “Roadrunner,” Morgan Neville’s documentary about the life and death of Anthony Bourdain, contains three sentences spoken by Bourdain that he never actually spoke out loud in the same way that you learn about a lot of things these days: by seeing an eruption of outrage about it on Twitter.

Anthony Bourdain say words he never spoke has drawn criticism amid ethical concerns about use of the powerful technology.The movie “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” appeared in cinemas Friday and mostly features real footage of the beloved celebrity chef and globe-trotting television host before he died in 2018.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, has been released in the US.

according to an interview with The New Yorker. Neville pored over hundreds of hours of footage of Bourdain to stitch together voice-overs for the film, which hits theaters Friday, he told the outlet.When he couldn’t find an existing narration to match an email he wanted read in the film, he made it up, according to the report.“There were three quotes there I wanted his voice for that there were no recordings of,” Neville reportedly said.

A new documentary about Anthony Bourdain is being labelled “grotesque” and “upsetting” for using AI technology to recreate the voice of the late celebrity chef. 

The New Yorker published Thursday, documentarian Morgan Neville explained his decision to use AI to recreate the voice of the late Bourdain. Writer Helen Rosner asked Neville “how on Earth” he nabbed a recording of Bourdain reading a particularly sensitive email aloud.

Hallmark Channel has set its first Christmas movie.Jordin Sparks will star in for Hallmark alongside Michael Xavier, the network announced Tuesday.

Framing Britney Spears, the New York Times documentary that brought renewed attention to the pop singer’s conservatorship, earned an Emmy nomination today for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.

Britney Spears about representing her in her conservatorship battle, and plans to attend a hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to reports in the New York Times and TMZ over the weekend.

Jamie Lynn Spears, 30, wants fans to know she’s not dependent on her sister Britney Spears, 39, for money. The former Nickelodeon star took to her Instagram story to respond to a headline summarizing Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino‘s recent report in the New Yorker that alleged Jamie Lynn, along with older brother Bryan Spears, mom Lynne Spears, and her dad (and conservator of Britney’s estate) Jamie Spears have been supported by the pop star.

Setting the record straight. Jamie Lynn Spears spoke out about a report that claimed she is the only member of her family not on sister Britney Spears’ payroll amid the pop star’s conservatorship battle.

Courtney Love is showing her support for Britney Spears.