U.K. Writers Guild, Music Union Set Out AI Concerns

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 press tour on a high note. For the VIP photo call following the European movie premiere, Robbie swapped her luxe fur stole-adorned Vivienne Westwood gown for a slinky red mini dress, and it just might be her best red carpet look yet.You might be thinking: What about the glittering black Solo in the Spotlight Barbie replica dress Robbie wore to the LA premiere? Or the pink Day-to-Night Barbie look she wore in South Korea? But there's something magical about a simple, sexy mini dress that blows the other looks out of the water.

J-hope, a member of boyband BTS, has opened up about his plans for 2024.J-hope recently appeared on an episode of the online talk show Suchwita, hosted by his BTS bandmate Suga. The episode was filmed prior to J-hope’s enlistment into the South Korean military in April this year. He’s expected to be discharged from military service in October 2024.During his appearance on the show, J-hope opened up about his plans for the future of his career, revealing that he has a documentary and an accompanying soundtrack in the works.“There’ll be new content about my life called Hope on the Street.

The new music video from NewJeans features some A-list talent!

Lights, camera, solidarity.

UK actors union Equity is to rally in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA later this week in London and Manchester.

K-pop girl group STAYC are currently preparing to make a comeback next month.On July 17, South Korean news outlet Hankook Ilbo reported that the six-member girl group are in the final preparations of their next comeback in August. Later that day, their agency High Up Entertainment confirmed the news, telling EDaily: “STAYC is preparing with the aim of releasing an album on August 16.”At the time of publishing, the title and format of STAYC’s upcoming release has not been revealed.

After AMPTP called their AI proposal to SAG-AFTRA yesterday “groundbreaking”, the actors’ union National Executive Director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, still begs to differ.

Well, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav already put his foot in his mouth responding to the WGA writers’ strike, so now it’s Bob Iger‘s turn.

British acting union Equity will “stand in unwavering solidarity” with its counterpart SAG-AFTRA over the looming actors strike.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Despite reports over the years that Warner Bros. was courting the likes of Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Ryan Gosling to play Willy Wonka, it was only Timothée Chalamet who got the offer to lead director Paul King’s prequel musical “Wonka.” And Chalamet didn’t even have to audition. King recently told Rolling Stone that he was a Chalamet “stan” and thus knew the actor had the singing and dancing chops required to play Wonka. “It was a straight offer because he’s great and he was the only person in my mind who could do it,” King said. “But because he’s Timothée Chalamet and his life is so absurd, his high school musical performances are on YouTube and have hundreds of thousands of views. So I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he could sing and dance really well.”

In a joint statement today, unions IATSE, Teamsters, the DGA, and the WGA East and West extended “unwavering support and solidarity” with SAG-AFTRA in the ongoing contract negotiations with producers.

Just like their U.S. counterparts, British writers fear an A.I. future.

Saying that the production and presentation of Canadian programming “is in a state of collapse,” the Writers Guild of Canada revealed today that during the past five years, the aggregate earnings of its Canadian citizen members have declined by nearly 22% when adjusted for inflation.

The Writers Guild of America East canceled all of its scheduled picket lines for today, citing “the high heat index” on a website for the union’s ongoing strike against film and television producers. 

Perez’s parents escaped communist Cuba. We will always be pro-capitalism! Video via @sports8.

Two young owls were found nesting under the famous Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury during Guns N' Roses' headline set, an animal charity has revealed.

Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz has discussed the band’s updated version of Billy Joel‘s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ and why it doesn’t reference COVID.This week, the band shared a new and updated version of the iconic hit, featuring lyrics from between its original release in 1989 and the present day.In the original track, the lyrics included: “Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray / South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio / Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television / North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.”These have been swapped out in the Fall Out Boy version for: “Captain Planet, Arab Spring, LA riots, Rodney King, deep fakes, earthquakes, Iceland volcano, Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs.”Now, Wentz has shared his explanations on the lyrics, and reasoning behind one big omission. “Dude, honestly, this idea has been brewing for so long,” Wentz told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “I’ve been trying to get somebody to do this for so long because it just seems so perfect.

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has expressed his intention to manage a top European club in the future.

“There’s something I have to tell you:” As an 18-year-old undergraduate at Harvard, Ted Hall was recruited to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team develop a weapon that would alter the course of human history. When the Atomic Bomb was detonated twice the following year, over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hall did not share in his colleagues’ enthusiasm for the Manhattan Project.