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May 22, 2026
Boots Riley turns class struggle into comedy with I Love Boosters
Before Boots Riley became the writer / director / musician behind Sorry to Bother You and I'm a Virgo, he was a young community organizer fighting for social justice as part of the Progressive Labo...
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May 19, 2026
The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a season of TV
When The Mandalorian first debuted on Disney Plus, it was a refreshing reminder of how fascinating Star Wars stories can be when they aren't focused on the same handful of well-established characte...
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May 15, 2026
The funniest thing about the Trump arcade game is how good it is
This week, a trio of video game cabinets emblazoned with pixel art of Donald Trump and a number of other government officials' faces suddenly appeared at the DC War Memorial. Looking at the cabinet...
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May 13, 2026
Fighting Trump will make or break Disney’s new CEO
A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company's "digital centerpiece." By last Friday, though, his attention had pr...
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May 7, 2026
The future of Disney Plus is a confused mess
Newly minted CEO Josh D'Amaro says that he wants to turn Disney Plus into "the immersive, interactive digital centerpiece of the company." It used to be that people went to the movies or theme park...
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May 1, 2026
Christian content creators are outsourcing AI slop to gig workers on Fiverr
In the beginning, platforms like Fiverr were places where people could hire freelancers to do specialized creative labor using skills that took years to develop. In the age of generative AI, though...
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April 28, 2026
It’s primetime for conspiracy theorist video creators
In the days since this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner was cut short when shots were fired at the event, there has been a boom of conspiracy theory videos created by people who insist tha...
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April 26, 2026
The plan to quietly kill Coyote v. Acme blew up in David Zaslav’s face
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Hollywood trends and streaming culture, follow Charles Pulliam-Moore. The Stepback arriv...
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April 24, 2026
The person who allegedly leaked Paramount’s new Avatar movie has been arrested
Following Paramount Skydance's move to launch an investigation into how its upcoming Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender animated feature leaked onto the internet, a suspect has been taken into custody...
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April 23, 2026
Brendan Carr’s war on wokeness targets inclusive children’s television
Under the guidance of consummate bully / chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC is taking steps towards cracking down on children's entertainment that in any way explores the complexities of gender identit...
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April 20, 2026
Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers
Though it's very common for entertainment writers to describe some narrative elements of the films and shows that they're covering, a Japanese court has determined that the practice can sometimes b...
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April 10, 2026
The Iranian Lego AI video creators credit their virality to ‘heart’
Donald Trump has spun the recent rescue of a downed airman whose fighter jet was destroyed behind Iranian borders as a resounding success. But the story is very different in one of the many viral, ...
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April 8, 2026
The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery
In Manuel Gonzales' 2013 short story "The Miniature Wife," a woman starts to become a different kind of person after her husband accidentally shrinks her down to the size of a coffee mug. Because o...
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March 31, 2026
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is beautiful but a little too busy
With The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo entered the next phase of its plan to become a different kind of entertainment giant. Though it wasn't the company's first go at putting its iconic plumbe...
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March 29, 2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
In the coming years, HBO wants its new Harry Potter series to become "the streaming event of the decade" as it adapts each of the franchise's seven original books. The show could very well become a...
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March 26, 2026
Webtoon is adding AI localization tools to its comics platform
Canvas, Webtoon's platform for user-uploaded comics, is about to get a major overhaul that's designed to help creators make more money and share their art with a wider audience. Today, Webtoon anno...
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March 25, 2026
Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well
Less than a week into his tenure as Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company's future plans. OpenAI is shuttin...
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March 24, 2026
Pokémon Champions is coming to the Nintendo Switch on April 8th
Right now, Pokopia has everyone busy building houses and beautifying the world, but next month, we'll be making our pocket monster friends fight for sport in Pokémon Champions. Today, Nintendo and ...
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March 21, 2026
The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics
Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the public in 2024. Though she didn't fully understand the technolog...
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March 19, 2026
Tubi and TikTok are partnering to produce long form series
Soon, some of TikTok's biggest personalities are going to be launching new streaming series on Tubi. Today, Tubi and TikTok announced that they are working together to launch a new Creatorverse Inc...
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March 18, 2026
The hits keep coming in Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s first trailer
The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day is finally here, and it looks like Marvel and Sony are about to put Peter Parker through a different kind of existential crisis. Though nobody in Bra...
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March 17, 2026
The messiah rises in Dune: Part Three’s new trailer
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a portentous set of twin babies in the new trailer for Dune: Part Three. Warner Bros. has debuted its first full trailer for Denis Villeneuve's thi...
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March 14, 2026
Prediction markets want the Oscars to be your gateway drug to betting on everything
Though it was weird to see the Golden Globes partner with Polymarket for its most recent awards show, the collaboration wasn't shocking given the way that people have begun using prediction markets...
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March 12, 2026
Bespoke AI models are the next big thing in filmmaking
Though many AI boosters have convinced themselves that the technology can spit out films and television series whole cloth, claims of Hollywood being cooked feel very premature when you see what pe...
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March 10, 2026
A live-action Samurai Champloo is in the works
Though the live-action Cowboy Bebop was a big disappointment, Shinichirō Watanabe is ready to give it another go with one of his other iconic pieces of IP. Variety reports that Watanabe has given h...
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March 10, 2026
Pokopia Pokédex review: a classic, reimagined
Thirty years ago, Nintendo struck gold with the release of the original Pokémon games. Soon, kids across the world were introduced to dozens of magical creatures that they could befriend and learn ...
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March 6, 2026
The AI Doc is an overwrought hype piece for doomers and accelerationists alike
We are in the thick of a massive push to incorporate generative AI into almost every aspect of our lives, but it is still easy to be confused about what it is and how it works. It doesn't help that...
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March 5, 2026
Netflix is buying Ben Affleck’s AI startup
Though Netflix lost the war for Warner Bros., it has just bought an AI startup from the internet's favorite Dunkin' Donuts aficionado. Today, Netflix announced that it has acquired InterPositive, B...
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March 3, 2026
We played Pokémon Pokopia, ask us anything
Pokémon's 30th anniversary is here and Nintendo (and The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Omega Force) are kicking things off with a surprisingly excellent life simulation spinoff game. Pokémon Pok...
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March 2, 2026
HBO Max and Paramount Plus could become one streamer
Now that Paramount Skydance has become the frontrunner to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO David Ellison wants the two studios' streaming services to become one. During a call with investors on Mond...
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