Steven Spielberg's new sci-fi film "Disclosure Day" debuted at number one at the US box office, grossing $44 million. Globally, it earned $92.9 million in its opening weekend, with a production and marketing budget of $195 million. The film's success relies on sustained audience interest and international performance.
Elon Musk plant einen Börsengang seines Raumfahrtunternehmens SpaceX an der Nasdaq. Das gesammelte Kapital soll die Mars-Missionen finanzieren und Investoren die Möglichkeit geben, daran teilzuhaben oder Risiken einzugehen.
Elon Musk frequently references Nikolai Kardashev's 1964 scale for classifying extraterrestrial civilizations by their energy consumption to justify SpaceX's ambitious goals, aiming for Type II status by harnessing the sun's full energy. Musk cites the scale in SpaceX's IPO prospectus, suggesting humanity is currently Type I, and proposes AI data centers powered by solar energy in space as a step towards this goal.
Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor who played a crucial role in shaping "Star Wars," has died at 80. Despite her significant contributions, she often downplayed her role, attributing the film's success to George Lucas's imagination. She also worked on "Taxi Driver" and "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
Bertrand Mandico's fourth feature film, Roma Elastica, presented at Cannes, offers a lighter, Fellini-esque vision after his darker trilogy. Featuring Marion Cotillard and Noémie Merlant, the film creatively uses sets and visual collages to evoke Rome.
Behaviour Interactive und PHI Studio arbeiten an einer immersiven, multisensorischen Blade-Runner-Installation. Das Projekt soll 2027 starten und neue Formen der Unterhaltung jenseits klassischer Spiele bieten.
Ein Science-Fiction-Horror – nur in Alt: SPIEGEL TV durfte im ehemaligen Kontrollraum von Block 4 drehen. Augenzeugen erinnern sich an die Nuklearkatastrophe.
„Aphelion“ überzeugt durch eine atmosphärische Science-Fiction-Geschichte und beeindruckende Grafik, enttäuscht jedoch spielerisch durch repetitive, technisch veraltete Kletter- und Action-Elemente, die an eine weniger präzise Version von „Uncharted“ erinnern.
Being financially equipped to retire feels like a fantasy. And yet plenty of people who could do so are avoiding it“Retirement.” A word I can hardly spell anymore, it seems so abstract and impossible – like a science-fiction concept from a tattered old novel. In the classic film Blade Runner, “retirement” is the term used to describe the brutal ritual of future cops executing rogue androids called replicants (which auto-correct just tried to turn into “Republicans” against my will, though maybe Google Docs has a Freudian slip function now).The Blade Runner version of retirement strikes me as more feasible for modern humans – getting blasted by a jackbooted assassin with a phallic-looking blaster – than the traditional process. Actual retirement – cocktails on the beach in between golf games – is as distant as the farthest known star. As glamorous as my life must seem to you, dear reader, it is not that at all. Like most creative types who never bothered to learn to code, I scrape by every month, white-knuckling until the next heaven-sent direct deposit. Continue reading...
