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Keanu Reeves’ AI & Deepfake Criticism Makes It Feel Like The Matrix Is Real

Keanu Reeves has opened up about his distrust of artificial intelligence, comparing the innovative technology to the sinister simulated reality of his groundbreaking franchise The Matrix. The Canadian actor cemented himself as a Hollywood veteran, starting his acting career with theater productions and television films before making his feature film debut in 1986’s Youngblood. Once transitioning into more mature roles with movies – including Point Break and My Own Private Idaho – in 1999, the actor achieved global stardom for his lead role as Neo in the critically acclaimed science fiction film, The Matrix, which follows Reeve’s computer programmer protagonist as he discovers that most of human civilization is trapped inside a simulated reality created by artificial intelligence machines.
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Over two decades since the release of the original The Matrix, Reeves criticized the use of AI and deep fake technology in the film industry during an interview with Variety. While rhetorically questioning the increasing popularity of art made by artificial intelligence, Reeves reveals that he has a clause in all of his film contracts banning editors from digitally manipulating his performances. Check out what he had to say below:

“I don’t mind if someone takes a blink out during an edit, but early on, in the early 2000s, or it might have been the ’90s, I had a performance changed. They added a tear to my face, and I was just like, ‘Huh?!’ It was like, I don’t even have to be here. What’s frustrating about that is you lose your agency. When you give a performance in a film, you know you’re going to be edited, but you’re participating in that. If you go into deepfake land, it has none of your points of view. That’s scary. It’s going to be interesting to see how humans deal with these technologies. They’re having such cultural, sociological impacts. People are growing up with these tools: We’re listening to music already that’s made by AI in the style of Nirvana, there’s NFT digital art. It’s cool, like, Look what the cute machines can make! But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the non-value. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?”

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Affecting The Film Industry

Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny looking de-aged in a train scene

Though the popularity of artificial intelligence seems to have only gained cultural traction in recent years, the advanced technology has already started to reshape the film industry in unexpected ways. From assisting editors in developing compelling trailers to algorithmically promoting upcoming movies and television shows, AI is not new to the post-production process of marketing a film. However, it is becoming all the more common for AI tools to be used when it comes to the actual writing, filming, and development of a film.

As Reeves points out, AI is being implemented to digitally alter performances as it is a cheaper alternative than visual effects or CGI. Hit films including Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman famously developed artificial intelligence systems to make their lead actors appear decades younger to enhance the storytelling during certain scenes. Perhaps most jarringly, AI has even been used to resurrect the image of actors who have passed away, with virtual-reality filmmaker Travis Cloyed even attempting to use archived footage to create a digital version of James Dean as himself in an upcoming drama.

While some are optimistic about the possibilities that AI allows for in the movie industry, the technology has also drawn its fair share of critics who believe that it is diminishing the value of artistry. Prevalent criticism, including from prolific filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki points out that if films are meant to explore the human condition, removing humans from the process of filmmaking negates the possibility of a truly moving outcome. As AI is still relatively new to the movie industry, only time will tell if it merely enhances the quality of upcoming films or if Reeves is right, and we are heading for a Matrix-like society in which the rapidly growing technology renders humans obsolete from Hollywood.

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Source: Variety

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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