9 h. ago James Cameron says he’s ‘struggling’ to start new Terminator film

‘I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events’ said the director

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37 h. ago James Cameron can't write his new Terminator film as AI is already here

James Cameron is struggling to write a new Terminator film because we're "living in a science fiction age" and he doesn't want his ideas to be "overtaken by real events"

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4 d. ago Pep Guardiola: I’m desperate for Phil Foden to feel happy and play with joy

The England international has struggled with injury at the start of the season.

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1 week ago California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Toronto film festival: the actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be AmericanAt the start of the century, a struggling Scottish rap duo decided to overhaul their image in extreme fashion: they began posing as two Americans from California, and managed to secure themselves a record deal with a label in London. Eventually the hoax was revealed, and one of them released a memoir about the charade. That wild story has now been adapted into a film, California Schemin’, which marks the alternately confident and unsteady directorial debut of actor James McAvoy.McAvoy is a son of Scotland himself, and perhaps feels some kinship with rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who found the cultural tastemakers of the south to be indifferent or even hostile to Scottish artists. Though McAvoy has fared just fine as an actor, Bain and Boyd – who would come to be known as Silibil N’ Brains – had a much tougher go...

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2 w. ago Man Utd sent Ruben Amorim sack message as claim about 'dressing room fights' made

Rio Ferdinand has weighed in on the calls for Ruben Amorim's sacking as Manchester United struggle to start the season, expressing optimism that the club's fortunes will improve soon

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2 w. ago ‘I turned down $20m to do Terminator 3. I can’t be bought, dude’: Ridley Scott on directing, Daleks and ... cherry jam

The Blade Runner and Alien film-maker on his run-ins with critics, the space suits he keeps in his cellar in France – and his love of swearingYou’ve explored worlds of dystopia, historical epics and perplexing moral aspects of the universe. What idea or question has haunted you the longest? RemyNaylorWho’s up there. He’d better show himself shortly, because we’re getting into a terrible mess down here. I mean, we are the fucking plague, 7.5 billion people, we can’t handle the planet. As you get older, you do wonder: is it going to be a guy with a long beard and long, flowing white robes, or is it just going to be a void? I don’t dwell on it. It’s weird. I feel like I’m still 21. It’s odd and strange.Did you score a lifetime’s supply of bread for directing the Hovis adverts back in the 70s? TeeDubyaBeeNo. But I ate enough Hovis as a kid in Stockton-on-Tees, with cherry jam and butter, toasted – holy shit. I did five Hovis commercials. They were all classics. The most famous is the bo...

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3 w. ago James Cameron on two decades of making 'Avatar' and the future he sees for movies

James Cameron first began developing “Avatar” more than 30 years ago

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3 w. ago ‘I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals than going to Hollywood parties’: Taylor Kitsch on fame, flops and Friday Night Lights

After the notorious box office bomb John Carter, the actor became the movie star who wasn’t. Now back on TV, he’s redefining what it means to be a leading manThere is a moment in every actor’s career when they must confront their early dreams and their present reality. For Taylor Kitsch, that reckoning has been more painful than for most. “If you start marrying yourself to these phantom outcomes that don’t exist, man, you’re gonna go crazy,” he says.Kitsch is talking from New York, thousands of miles from his home in Montana, where he has carved out a different life from his Hollywood years. “I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals with my camera than going to clubs or bars or Hollywood parties,” he says. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Sean Dyche slams Ruben Amorim's philosophy and tells Man Utd he'd win more games as boss

Ruben Amorim has had an incredibly tough start to life as Manchester United manager, with the squad struggling to get to grips with the Portuguese coach's tactical demands

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last month Carlos Alcaraz wins Cincinnati Open as Sinner retires from final with illness

Italian trailing 0-5 when he decided to pull outAlcaraz confident rival is ‘going to come back stronger’Carlos Alcaraz has won the Cincinnati Open for the first time in his career after the world No 1, Jannik Sinner, his great rival, was forced to retire from their highly anticipated final with illness while trailing 0-5 in the opening set.Sinner, who had looked under the weather from the start of the match, explained later that he had been struggling with illness since Sunday. “I’m super sorry to disappoint you,” the Italian said. Continue reading...

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last month The AI future is too scary even for James Cameron. Where can the Terminator franchise go from here?

He complains tech is moving faster than he can write a script, but the director who invented machines thinking for themselves is still more creative than themJames Cameron has a confession: he can’t write Terminator 7. And it’s not because Hollywood won’t let him, as he’s too busy making the new Avatar – it’s because reality keeps nicking his plotlines. “I’m at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,” Cameron told CNN this week. “I’m tasked with writing a new Terminator story [but] I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science-fiction age right now.”It’s an understandable quandary for the veteran film-maker. Back in 1984, when the first Terminator movie came out, there was genuine shock value in the idea of a killer robot travelling through time from a future in which the wretched dregs of humanity survive in a chrome-plated hell scape dominated by their robot overlords. These days, the only far-fetched part o...

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