In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...
Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” — but the late directors’ estate is calling bull. In a ...
Beatrice Welles, daughter of the legendary director Orson Welles, has said she is “angry and disgusted” by an AI company’s plans to reconstruct 43 minutes of destroyed footage from his 1942 drama The ...
On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to re-create the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Why is a startup that ...
Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of “A Better Tomorrow II” (1987), John Woo’s sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic “A Better Tomorrow” ...
An AI firm is looking to recreate the lost footage of an Orson Welles film. Credit: Central Press/Getty Images An Amazon-backed AI firm is looking to recreate the lost footage of a Hollywood ...
Just over a year ago, Amazon invested in a company named Fable, which calls itself the “Netflix of AI” and is led by Edward Saatchi, a former senior executive at Meta’s Oculus division. Saatchi ...
The Orson Welles estate objects to AI startup Fable Studio‘s plans to “reconstruct” lost footage of the director’s 1942 feature “The Magnificent Ambersons,” which had 43 minutes cut from its released ...