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Wonka's The Golden Ticket controversy explained: Netflix revived Gene Wilder's voice with AI
Netflix looked at the wreckage of that 2024 Glasgow "Willy's Chocolate Experience" — the one with the meth-lab bouncy castle and the crying children — and thought: what if we did that, but prestige, and with a dead man's voice? Thus, Wonka's The Golden Ticket, premiering September 23.
September 21, 2026 2:28 pm
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Daniel Okafor
Netflix's Monster returned with the one subject in four seasons that a jury acquitted
September 17, 2026 1:14 pm
Tatiana Santos
Romantics Anonymous star Yuri Nakamura has died at 44, and the news was held for two weeks
September 15, 2026 3:27 pm
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Stephanie Nur did not know Lioness was bringing Aaliyah back, and says she found the clues by rewatching season 1
21.09.2026
TV
Tracker season 4 lands an October release date: what to expect as Justin Hartley picks up the DARPA trail
21.09.2026
TV
Who dies in The White Lotus season 1? The ending explained — the body in the cargo hold has a suitcase to blame
21.09.2026
Movies
Paramount must release 30 films a year or sell Miramax, the label behind its biggest hit of the year
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Stephanie Nur did not know Lioness was bringing Aaliyah back, and says she found the clues by rewatching season 1
Lioness spent eight episodes asking who took Joe McNamara, and answered it in the last two minutes with a face from season 1. The actor attached to that face has now explained how the show kept it from her, and what she still has not been told.
September 21, 2026 4:29 pm
Movies
Paramount must release 30 films a year or sell Miramax, the label behind its biggest hit of the year
Twelve states have signed off on Paramount buying Warner Bros., and the price is a promise about cinemas: thirty films a year, every year. The enforcement mechanism is the part nobody saw coming, because the studio has put up a label most people had stopped thinking about.
September 21, 2026 3:41 pm
Daniel Okafor
Avengers: Endgame Encore has two runtimes, and the cheaper ticket gets three minutes less
September 21, 2026 2:52 pm
Lifestyle
Taylor Tomlinson's first book is a list of opinions she has reversed, and she names the one she never will
Taylor Tomlinson has spent fifteen years telling audiences exactly what she thinks about God, therapy, dating and her own family, with the certainty of someone who has worked the bit out on stage. Her first book is a list of the times she got it wrong, and one position she says she will defend to the grave.
September 21, 2026 1:36 pm
Daniel Okafor
It took five Swedish unions to make Activision Blizzard blink
September 21, 2026 8:47 am
Daniel Okafor
Marathon is turning into Destiny and Bungie should just say it
September 21, 2026 8:16 am
Daniel Okafor
I don't know who funds games like Hyper Light Drifter anymore
September 21, 2026 7:38 am
Daniel Okafor
Build A Rocket Boy spied on its own staff and still couldn't ship
September 21, 2026 7:12 am