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Digital Trends
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
3 underrated Amazon Prime Video movies you should watch this weekend (June 6-8)
For as long as Prime Video has existed, the streaming service has been home to plenty of great movies. The problem for users is when they log in, they receive the same recommendations repeatedly. If you're looking for some underrated gems, that's where we can help. We've pulled together this list of titles, each of which is well worth your time and has a totally distinct sensibility: Recommended Videos We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best movies on Amazon Prime Video, the best movies on Max, and the best movies on Disney+. September 5 (2024) A tight, short procedural about people doing their jobs, September 5 follows ABC's sports crew at the 1972 Olympics in Munich as they find themselves in the middle of a hostage situation after members of the Israeli team are held captive. As they work to figure out exactly what is happening and begin telling the story live, they scramble to use their limited resources to get to the truth. September 5 is tense, filled with great actors who seem like real people, and a reminder that journalism at its best can deliver truth when no one else is around. It's also a smart look at a moment in history with eerie echoes today. You can watch September 5 on Amazon Prime Video. 25th Hour One of Spike Lee's best and most under-discussed movies, 25th Hour follows a man preparing for a lengthy prison sentence in the days after 9/11. In addition to being a remarkable chronicle of the city in the wake of unimaginable tragedy, it's also the study of a man who is reevaluating everything about his life in light of his sentence. As he spends time with his friends and girlfriend in the hours before he has to report to prison, we come to see the life he's leaving behind and all the choices he made that led him to where he is now. You can watch 25th Hour on Amazon Prime Video. Bottoms (2023) Like a strange combination of Clueless and Fight Club, Bottoms follows two gay best friends who decide to start a fight club at their high school to meet girls and eventually lose their virginity. As the club moves from self-defense to an excuse to wail on one another, the girls find themselves losing control and struggling to remember what the club was for to begin with. Anchored by two remarkable central performances from Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms is outrageously funny and the kind of teen comedy that we should be getting at least four of every year. You can watch Bottoms on Amazon Prime Video.
Time of India
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
What is New York Knicks' celebrity fan Spike Lee's net worth? His income from movies explained
What is New York Knicks' celebrity fan Spike Lee's net worth? His income from movies explained (Image Source: Getty) Reputed Hollywood celebrity Spike Lee is quite famous for his writing and direction skills. One of the most celebrated faces in the world of artists, Lee is a bonafide New York Knicks fan. With the Knicks diverting all the spotlight currently, Lee is back to the stands rooting for his favorite team. Not many people know that the veteran filmmaker Spike Lee has an old connection with the NBA. Reportedly, Lee represented the New York Knicks back in the 1990s as a front-and-center forward. With his fair share of stint with the NBA and Hollywood, here is everything you need to know about the Oscar winners' net worth. New York Knicks reputed fan Spike Lee's net worth in 2025 and income from movies With the New York Knicks taking the front seat during the ongoing NBA season, it's difficult to miss out on the talented filmmaker Spike Lee, all thanks to his connection with the team and the much-hyped spat with the former Indiana Pacers star Reggie Miller during the early 90s. According to the Celebrity Net Worth, the total net worth of Spike Lee is around $60 million. He came to prominence during the 1980s as a filmmaker, producer and writer. With sheer brilliance and dedication towards the art of filmmaking, Lee even went on to register an Academy Award under his name. He has even served as a professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts based in New York City. According to the media outlet, Celebrity Net Worth, Spike Lee went on to make around $3 million from the 1992 released Malcolm X. It is quite understandable that he had secured $3 million as a salary and even made much more from movies including Inside Man, 25th Hour, Summer of Sam and Love & Basketball. In his over multiple decade-long Hollywood career, Spike Lee won an Academy Award for the BlacKkKlansman, in the best director category. Recently, Lee directed a Netflix-based movie Da 5 Bloods, which even ranks on the third highest position on the Rotten Tomatoes platform. Also Read: 'This man is a firefighter' — New York Knicks stan Ben Stiller showers praise for Tyrese Haliburton's heartfelt gesture for Indiana Pacers fan after viral incident Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Round One of ‘Blade Runner 2049' Legal Battle Over AI Images Goes to Warner Bros. and Elon Musk
A federal judge has narrowed the scope of a lawsuit from a production company for Blade Runner 2049 accusing Tesla of feeding images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials and Warner Bros. Discovery of facilitating the partnership. U.S. District Judge George Wu on Monday dismissed allegations that Alcon Entertainment's trademarks were violated while allowing some copyright claims to proceed. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'SNL' Mocks Trump's Tariff Plan and Mike Myers Returns as Elon Musk to Joke About "Self-Vandalizing" Teslas 25th Hour: Why Cory Booker's Speech Was the Screen Performance of the Year Long Before Cory Booker, Patton Oswalt Delivered an Epic Star Wars Filibuster on 'Parks and Recreation' Tesla's partnership with WBD to promote its robotaxi at a glitzy unveiling, which was done from a studio lot, last year sparked the lawsuit. At the presentation, Elon Musk reached the stage in what he called a 'cybercab' before showing an image of a male figure wearing a trench coat who's surveying the abandoned ruins of a city bathed in a misty, orange light. Alcon alleged that the image was intended to be understood as an actual still from Blade Runner 2049's sequence of Ryan Gosling's character exploring a ruined Las Vegas. Among the novel questions the case asks is whether the creation of a visual by an AI image generator by copying a portion of a copyrighted work without a license constitutes copyright infringement. Tesla argued that the claim shouldn't be advanced because Alcon's allegations are only based 'on information and belief.' In Monday's order, the court said that it'd be premature to dismiss the claim. It pointed to Tesla's attempt to get permission to use Blade Runner 2049 for its event, which was denied just hours before the presentation was set to begin, as well as 'several similarities' between the promotional materials that Tesla used and stills from the movie that were allegedly infringed upon. 'Given the tight timeframe Musk and Tesla were working with in light of their last-minute request – and the resulting last-minute denial – to make use of BR2049, it is not at all implausible for Plaintiff to allege on information-and-belief that they made use of an AI image-generator to come up with the finished product,' Wu wrote. While most copyright claims against Tesla were allowed to proceed, those against WBD were dismissed except one for contributory infringement, which accuses the studio of inducing the alleged misconduct. The court agreed with the company that wasn't responsible for overseeing Tesla's work in relation to the presentation. 'There is nothing indicating that Warner had such a supervisory/controlling position or role vis a vis Tesla and Musk,' stated the order. And in a win for Tesla and WBD, the court dismissed a claim for an alleged violation of the Lanham Act, a federal trademark law that bars false association. Although Musk said 'Blade Runner' during his presentation, he didn't mislead viewers as to the source of the movie, according to the ruling. Wu also stressed that Tesla and Alcon aren't competitors. 'Tesla and Musk are looking to sell cars,' the judge wrote. 'Plaintiff is plainly not in that line of business.' The court said it'd likely allow Alcon to fix its copyright claims but not those alleging violations of the Lanham Act, finding that such 'amendments would be futile.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Tariffs Timing Couldn't Be Worse for Hollywood
President Trump on Wednesday afternoon declared what he called 'Liberation Day': Announcing wide-ranging tariffs that he argued will rebalance the global trade order, and in his words make America rich. Many entertainment executives were surely watching what happened closely, and they aren't feeling rich. More from The Hollywood Reporter 25th Hour: Why Cory Booker's Speech Was the Screen Performance of the Year Kid Rock Says Meeting He Brokered With President Trump and Bill Maher 'Could Not Have Been Better' Long Before Cory Booker, Patton Oswalt Delivered an Epic Star Wars Filibuster on 'Parks and Recreation' The media business might not be built on imported physical goods, but many of its largest advertisers are, and the ad business is already beginning to feel the pain, multiple sources on the buy side and the sell side tell The Hollywood Reporter. Some major advertising categories, including automotive, consumer packaged goods, and food and drinks, are beginning to reexamine their spending as they crunch the numbers to figure out how the looming tariffs — and the possibility of an all-out trade war — will impact their businesses. At the same time, a potential decline in tourism from Canada and Europe has the potential to weaken the travel sector, where airlines and hotels compete for consumer dollars. 'It really is a perfect storm of bad news,' one high-level media source says, noting that while current scatter pricing is OK for now, the outlook isn't looking as hot for the remainder of the year. The tariffs affect every country, with everything from grocery staples and cars to electronics and raw materials set to be impacted when the tariffs go into effect. Stock market futures plummeted after Trump announced the moves. In just the past couple of weeks, the influential advertising analyst Brian Wieser and the media intelligence firm Magna have each lowered their advertising growth forecast for 2025. Wieser lowered his 2025 outlook to 3.6 percent, down from 4.5 percent in December. Magna lowered its outlook to 4.3 percent, down from 4.9 percent previously. Yes, they expect the ad business will grow, but it will mark a sharp downward swing from 2024, and essentially all that growth will be coming from tech giants like Google and Meta. 'In December, we wrote about 2025's uncertainty in the wake of a U.S. federal election that produced what appeared to us as a negative outcome for the advertising industry given the incoming administration's articulated policy preferences,' Wieser wrote. 'By now, nearly three months into the year, what we can see is a certainty of additional negative factors, including volatility around trade policies and a more extreme threat to supply chains and corporate decision-making than we previously expected.' 'The current — hopefully temporary — dip in confidence has already dampened the dynamics of the ad market, prompting U.S. to revise our growth forecast for 2025,' wrote Vincent Létang, Magna's executive vp global market intelligence. 'While total ad spend is still expected to grow in the mid-single digits, digital media ad sales will continue to experience high-single-digit growth. In contrast, most traditional media channels may face stagnating ad revenues this year.' Even tech giants, however, are not immune. MoffettNathanson's Michael Nathanson wrote in a March 31 note on YouTube that even the king of ad-supported streaming video will likely see its growth moderate. 'While the platform's expanding reach among older demographics enhances its monetization potential, we think the growing supply of impressions across the broader CTV ecosystem could exert downward pressure on ad pricing, offsetting those gains,' Nathanson wrote. 'Additionally, a softer macroeconomic environment may put pressure on ad budgets industry-wide. As a result, we now project YouTube's advertising revenue to grow in the low double digits over the next few years.' For many traditional media companies (like the entertainment giants), however, ad anxiety seems to be all the rage right now, and low double-digit growth would be a dream come true. Despite the gloom and doom from executives and advertising analysts, JPMorgan's David Karnovsky noted in a March 28 report that there has been 'no softness observed so far' in the ad market, with local TV being a notable exception given the heavy reliance on automotive ads. Still, if there is a silver lining for traditional media companies, it is that sports programming — which they are all leaning into heavily — should feel a degree of protection from any chaos, given continued strong demand. Both buy and sell side sources say that demand for live sports continues unabated. 'Sports remains robust while streaming video is still managing through the impact of increased supply in the market,' wrote Bank of America analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich in a March 28 report, adding that in streaming the market is still grappling with Amazon's decision last year to turn on ads for Prime Video, causing inventory to explode. 'For advertising, executives highlighted continued robust demand for sports on linear and streaming, while news also appears to be strong where ratings are higher, with pre-emptions the only constraint on growth,' Karnovsky wrote. 'Linear entertainment was described as fine with scatter holding above upfront pricing. In general, dollars appear to be moving from cable entertainment to news/sports for reach and CTV for targeting. The latter has seen depressed CPMs as a result, though this seems to have bottomed.' Still, the timing of the tariffs and downturn couldn't be worse for entertainment companies, which will begin their upfront conversations with media buyers in the coming weeks. The upfronts are when advertising commit billions of dollars in spending to secure the best rates and best programming. One entertainment advertising executive says they believe this year's presentations will lean in hard to sports and live events to try and mitigate the broader concerns in the market. They also expect to secure commitments from buyers to spend on some entertainment programming (at least on streaming) in order to guarantee prime inventory on the best sporting events. NBC, for example, will be selling next year's Super Bowl, Winter Olympics and the return of the NBA on NBC. A buy-side source, meanwhile, says that clients are beginning to think about where they will prioritize buys should the economy further deteriorate, or if tariffs impact product offerings. Sports are likely to stick, with entertainment spend likely becoming more focused and targeted. Given the trajectory of the economy (Goldman Sachs raised the 12-month risk of a recession to 35 percent on March 31), some brands may take the risk of moving more of their budgets to the scatter market, where prices and inventory are more fluid. And while it has not come to fruition yet, executives are still crossing their fingers that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s long-promised threat to ban pharmaceutical advertising does not become a reality. Karnovsky writes that the executives he spoke to 'didn't sense any concern' on the issue, 'with some noting that lobbying pushback on a ban would be intense, and in a worst-case scenario there would be replacement demand (especially for sports).' Of course, sports alone cannot carry a media company through an economic downturn, and as the buy-side source noted, when times get tough, advertising budgets are the first thing to get trimmed. And it is likely to be the less tech-savvy entertainment companies that will feel the pinch first. Best of The Hollywood Reporter How the Warner Brothers Got Their Film Business Started Meet the World Builders: Hollywood's Top Physical Production Executives of 2023 Men in Blazers, Hollywood's Favorite Soccer Podcast, Aims for a Global Empire Sign in to access your portfolio
Washington Post
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Legendary British funk band Cymande is back, with new stories to tell
Even if you think you've never heard Cymande's music, you almost certainly have. Maybe it was as key samples in De La Soul's 'Change in Speak' or the title track to the Fugees' album 'The Score.' Perhaps it was in Spike Lee's post-9/11 masterpiece '25th Hour,' or during a party scene in the acclaimed film 'The Worst Person in the World.'
