Independent film production, financing, and sales company XYZ Films, based in L.A., knows genre fare better than most, “elevated genre” that is. Founded in 2008 by Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin, and Nick Spicer, it has made a name for itself with its focus on such international genre movies as Gareth Evans‘ cult classic The Raid and Panos
Year: 2024
PETA Activists Protest Pharrell Williams ‘Piece By Piece’ Press Screening at Toronto Film Festival
PETA activists protested a press screening for Piece by Piece, the animated documentary about singer, songwriter and record producer Pharrell Williams, on Saturday morning at the Toronto Film Festival. The protesters brandished posters reading “Fur Is Dead” and “Pharrell: Stop Killing Animals for Fashion” as they urged Williams, who is also Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director, to stop
Planes Targeting Trump Fly Over College Football Stadiums, Telling Voters to Sack Project 2025 (Exclusive)
College football fans who were tailgating at several universities this weekend were in for a surprise when planes carrying Election 2024 messages flew over their respective parking lots and stadiums. On Saturday, the second week of the 2024 college football season, planes carrying banner messages specific for three universities flew across the sky, courtesy of
BYD Launches New IP “Xia”, with A Model Set to Be Released This Year
On August 30th, BYD‘s new IP ‘Xia’ was officially launched at the Chengdu Auto Show. The model with the same name, the Dynasty’s first mid-to-large flagship MPV ‘Xia’, made its global debut. The new car is built on BYD’s new generation plug-in hybrid vehicle platform and adopts the Huama Longyan design language. It boasts six
MiniMax Releases Its First Text-to-Video Model
On August 31, MiniMax quietly launched its first video-generating large model and released a 2-minute video titled ‘Magic Coin’ generated by the MiniMax large model. It is worth noting that MiniMax has not yet disclosed the specific parameters and technical points of the model. On that day, MiniMax founder Yan Junjie stated during a media
DTM Sachsenring: Aitken claims dominant win, Bortolotti regains title lead
Emil Frey Ferrari driver Jack Aitken led the opening race at Sachsenring from start to finish to claim his third victory of the 2024 DTM season. Having inherited pole position as a result of Thomas Preining’s five-place grid penalty, 28-year-old Aitken had no trouble fending off his rivals as he took the chequered flag with
Crazy video shows thousands of sharks asleep on the seafloor, and experts are baffled
Published Sep 7th, 2024 9:01AM EDT A video captured by an underwater robot has scientists scratching their heads. The video, which was captured in Beagle Marine Park in Australia, shows thousands of female sharks sleeping on the seafloor. Scientists aren’t exactly sure what to make of the crazy shark video, with the researchers describing it
16 new titles hit Netflix over the next week – this is the one everyone will be watching
Published Sep 6th, 2024 8:18PM EDT In the weeks since Netflix released the first half of Emily in Paris‘ fourth season, the streamer’s weekly Top 10 data shows that the dreamy, fan-favorite romantic drama racked up almost 20 million views in just its first four days of streaming availability. The show saw 14.9 million the
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 61 Palestinians as UN pursues vaccinations
GAZA: Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 61 Palestinians in the space of 24 hours, local medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led fighters in the territory, Reuters reports. An Israeli air strike on the Halima al-Sa’diyya school compound serving as a shelter for displaced people in the Jabalia urban
Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner returns to Earth after troubled mission
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday after a three-month troubled test mission marred with technical issues that have left National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) astronauts stranded in space till next year. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first crew to fly Starliner in June, remain