In the new series “Shogun” succeeds increasingly rare ● The second season of the series “Rings of Power” is planned to be released this year ● “Fourteen Days”, a book by 36 popular authors ● Elon Musk also got mad at Windows ● Wikipedia no longer considers CNET a reliable source ● Paramount is making a new film, The Naked Gun, with Liam Neeson ● The Terminator franchise is expanding with another title

In the new series “Shogun” succeeds increasingly rare

This Tuesday, when the first two episodes aired at the same time, the new series started Shogun the American television channel FX managed something rare these days, to reconcile both the goat and the cabbage, that is, to receive wide appreciation from both film critics and viewers. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 99% from specialists and 94% from the general public.

On the new Metacritic Shogun it has a score of 84/100 from critics and an average rating of 8.9/10 from general audiences, while on IMDb, where everyone can vote equally, the rating is 9.3/10. Shogun it’s the real TV epic you’ve been waiting for,” USA Today headlined in its review when the first series in the 1980s was a huge success in the United States.

While the Nielsen ratings, which measure US audiences, haven’t yet been released for the past week, specialty site Flix Patrol shows that, online at least, Shogun quickly became Disney’s most popular series. The series airs on Disney+, as FX television is owned by the entertainment giant founded by Walt Disney 100 years ago.

The success of the new series is likely to be a huge relief for Disney, as the American company has been accused in recent years of making “woke” movies and series, its struggling Marvel superhero franchise and an increasing number of mainstream Hollywood productions fails or is brutally rejected by the public, although praised by film critics.

“I think that’s what the public can really expect from Shogun tell an epic story. I think we’re very serious about asking viewers to watch a 10-hour story, and I promise viewers that we’re going to take them to places they’ve never been before,” said Justin Marks, one of the two creators of the new series. , in an exclusive interview given to HotNews.ro before the premiere of the series.

The second season of the series “Rings of Power” is planned to be released this year

And since I kept mentioning about productions that were radically different from viewers and film critics, the other day those from THR wrote that the next season of the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power The premiere is scheduled for this year. While Amazon has yet to officially confirm this information, THR’s sources almost certainly know what they’re talking about.

When I say this, I’m not only basing it on the fact that THR (The Hollywood Reporter, so I’m not just using the acronym) has proven over the years to be one of the most reliable sources in the American film industry, but also because this year’s issue will be as natural as possible: filming for season 2 wrapped last summer, so there is plenty of time for post-production.

However, Amazon has confirmed to THR that Patrick McKay and JD Payne, the show’s American directors, have signed a new contract to create a third season of the show. Rings of power. Until that too is released, I’ll just remind you that the first season didn’t disappoint fans with only a 38% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though critics were much more impressed.

“Fourteen Days”, a book by 36 popular authors

“A week after the beginning of the quarantine due to COVID-19, residents of an apartment building in Manhattan began to gather on the roof and tell stories. Each night, more neighbors bring chairs, cardboard boxes and overturned buckets [pentru a sta pe ele]. Gradually, residents become real neighbors, although some of them hardly spoke to each other before.”

This is what part of the book description sounds like Fourteen days, signed by no fewer than 36 popular authors, from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham. Each writer was responsible for writing the story of one of the characters, although you’ll have to skip to the end of the 592-page novel, which is now available on Amazon, to find out which writer is behind which character.

Although there are probably many who would like to forget personal trials during the quarantine, the American writer Douglas Preston, one of the editors of the book, points out that “we tell stories to try to find meaning in tragedies, in war, in violence.” and in a pandemic.” “We tell stories to try to find meaning in a terrible and senseless world. And this is exactly what the book is about,” he insists.

You pay a penny, but you buy a good thing, as one local classic said (PHOTO: Stephen Parker / Alamy / Profimedia Images)

Elon Musk also got mad at Windows

For some time now, the South African billionaire has seemed like the kind of person who doesn’t feel good when he’s not arguing with someone, and this week, in addition to suing Sam Altman and OpenAI, he also ousted CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft. Reason? Musk tried to install Windows on a new laptop and failed, which he himself reported on the “X” network, which he owns.

“Previously, there was an option to ‘skip’ creating a Microsoft account,” he complained, claiming that signing up for the Microsoft platform would “give access” to the artificial intelligence on his computer. But his followers pointed him to the “Community Notes,” Microsoft’s rulebook, which states that there is a way to skip this step, although it’s not as obvious as it used to be.

“Community notes don’t work here. Such an option no longer exists,” Musk replied in a new post. Finally, a Microsoft employee himself answered, and with the help of his instructions, Musk was able to install Windows on his laptop without having to create an account on the Microsoft platform, as he reports to Business Insider, after disconnecting from WiFi.

But Musk raised the issue in a complaint directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. “Satya, I don’t want to be annoying, but please allow people to install Windows on a new PC without creating a Microsoft account,” Musk wrote to Nadelli in a post announcing a new partnership between Microsoft and MistralAI, a French company that sells products and services , related to artificial intelligence

He also complained that “what if you want to register [cu un cont Microsoft], it won’t let you if you’re using a work email address, and I only have work email addresses.” Of course, it’s unlikely that Musk really believes that you’re giving your computer access to AI if you sign up for a Microsoft account, and his comment is more of a new blow to the tech giant’s partnership with OpenAI.

Wikipedia no longer considers CNET a reliable source

And speaking of artificial intelligence, it led to the shutdown of CNET, one of the world’s largest technology sites. Of course, this is not the fault of the company itself, but Red Ventures, a digital marketing company that bought the site in October 2020. At the beginning of last year, a huge scandal broke out around CNET when the first evidence appeared that it had started publishing articles created by AI.

Reason? As with Microsoft’s MSN news aggregator, the articles were found to be full of errors, misinformation and plagiarism. CNET only discovered it had started using artificial intelligence to create content after two separate investigations by The Verge and futurism.com. futurism.com has now published a large x-ray on the subject.

The scandal sparked heated debate, particularly on Wikipedia’s forums, over content moderation and the classification of trusted sources, ultimately leading to the decision to downgrade CNET’s trust rating. The erroneous articles have since been corrected and Red Ventures has assured that they adhere to quality standards for editorial content, etc.

Paramount is making a new film, The Naked Gun, with Liam Neeson

Returning to the cinema for a while, Paramount confirmed this week that it is developing a “remake” of the film A naked gun from 1988, a comedy classic thanks to the performance of the late actor Leslie Nielsen. Paramount also announced a July 18, 2025 release date for the new film, and that it will be produced by Fuzzy Door, Seth MacFarlane’s production company.

But this is not the most exciting news, because the main role of the upcoming feature film will be played by the Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson, who fans of “Star Wars” could recently see in the new series. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Deadline, which has been reporting on Neeson’s talks with Paramount since October 2022, said at the time that the actor would have agreed after being approached by MacFarlane.

They worked together on such films as Ted 2 and A million ways to die in the Westand to science fiction series orville, which MacFarlane recently said is not dead, but that negotiations for a new season have been complicated by last year’s double whammy in Hollywood. The news of the new film is even more exciting as Neeson has floated the idea of ​​retiring at the end of 2022.

The Terminator franchise is expanding with another title

But for now, it’s not a new movie, despite persistent rumors about it and James Cameron saying he’s working on a new title, but a video game created by Nacon and Milan studios. The two game studios announced this Thursday that they have also set a release date for the title game Terminator: Survivor: October 2024.

This is because the project has been announced since 2022, but in the meantime we have learned very little about it. What is certain is that we now know that the new title will be ambitious, it will be an open-world “survival” game, and Nacon’s creative director Marco Ponte has also announced that he will also have a co-op mode. -op for up to 4 people, in addition to the single player version.

History Terminator: Survivor events will take place in 2009 and will be based on the first two films of the franchise. This means that players will have to survive in a world 4 years after the apocalyptic event called “Doomsday” and before the formation of John Connor’s resistance group. Ponte interestingly claims that at the beginning of the game, the character that gamers will play will not know about the robot uprising.

Obviously, things will change quite quickly. The story of the game “takes place in an as yet unexplored time span in the universe finished, with an original story featuring both familiar and new characters, and where you’ll learn about the beginnings of John Connor’s resistance movement,” said Marco Ponte, as quoted by IGN. Even better news is that we now have a trailer, albeit a short one:

If you’re also interested in reading last weekend’s Nerd Alert column, you can find it here:

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