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Oscars' strikes tributes highlight solidarity, and the possible labor struggles to come

Mar. 12, 2024 14:29 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood has been able to put on a show of happiness and something akin to normalcy as it struggles to shake off the effects of the dual strikes and one of the most tumultuous years in industry history. Yet Sunday's Academy Awards didn’t sidestep the labor...

Inside the SAG Awards: A mostly celebratory mood for 1st show since historic strike

Feb. 25, 2024 01:45 AM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Inside the ballroom at the 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards, “Oppenheimer” was front and center literally and figuratively, snagging the night’s top prize along with trophies for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards,...

Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don't want it to replace them

Feb. 19, 2024 05:43 AM EST

If you are battling a video game goblin who speaks with a Cockney accent, or asking a gruff Scottish blacksmith to forge a virtual sword, you might be hearing the voice of actor Andy Magee. Except it's not quite Magee's voice. It's a synthetic voice clone generated by artificial...

In 'The Brothers Sun,' Michelle Yeoh again leads an immigrant family with dark humor — but new faces

Jan. 04, 2024 10:02 AM EST

In 2021, Sam Song Li was cast in an independent film as the ancestor of a character played by a pre-"Shang-Chi" Simu Liu. To the general public, the non-speaking cameo might seem insignificant. But for Li, it was a seminal moment. A producer told him she picked him after looking at...