Grok Imagine posted the opening installment of its Odyssey series on Friday evening, a seven-minute AI-generated short created with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. Elon Musk shared the clip the same night with a simple caption noting the tool behind it. The post invited comments on whether viewers wanted a full technical breakdown of the process.
Robert Downey Jr. drove away from the final scene of 2012’s The Avengers in a low, open roadster finished in a deep red close to Iron Man’s armor, wearing a New York plate that read STARK 33. That exact car now sits on Cars & Bids with no reserve, and every dollar of the winning bid goes to a charity chosen with the buyer. American Honda will also cover the platform’s buyer’s fee once the sale closes on October 31.
Adam Savage sits down with Lorne Peterson, one of the original model makers hired at Industrial Light and Magic in 1975, and the conversation quickly turns to the practical choices that gave the ships their worn, functional look. Peterson shows off a rare Darth Vader service award he received after forty years with the company, then explains how he and a friend arrived for their interview carrying a dusty Kennedy toolbox instead of the cardboard boxes most freelancers used.
Nokia announced the 8110 on 9 September 1996 as the first handset in its high-end 8000 series, a business-oriented model that measured 141 by 48 by 25 millimetres and weighed around 152 grams. Sliding covers defined its form from the start, protecting the keypad in a pocket and extending downward so the microphone sat closer to the mouth while the same motion answered an incoming call.
Decades after Toy Story 2, the multi-layered chest that appears when the cleaner restores Woody continues to pull makers who want those drawers and compartments to exist outside the animation. Chris Borge, a maker from South Australia focused on digital fabrication and 3D printing, took the idea on as a prototype for a mobile workshop. The project started during a trip to the Flinders Ranges while he worked on a camera build, when the need for a portable setup made the film’s design feel worth testing against real constraints.
Prime Video unveiled the full trailer for its limited series Blade Runner 2099 at New York Comic Con on Saturday, introducing a Los Angeles rebuilt fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049. Replicants have won an uprising that had been building across the films, leaving humans as second-class citizens in a city no longer shaped by their hands. All eight episodes arrive together on the streamer November 25.
Nineteen feet and eight inches separates the nose of this car from the trailing edge of its rear fins, and almost none of that length came from a single factory chassis. Custom builder Carl Casper and his shop, Hollywood Productions, cut two Chevrolet Impala frames apart and joined them into one long backbone, then wrapped the result in a hand-shaped fiberglass body finished in gloss black. That body still wears the paint it carried when cameras rolled on Tim Burton’s 1992 film Batman Returns. Julien’s Auctions calls this example the number one hero car, screen-matched to most of the driving scenes Michael Keaton shot, and says it has never been offered at auction before.
Midtown foot traffic slowed this week in front of an arcade cabinet tall enough to stand inside. Paramount parked it in Times Square to sell the new Street Fighter movie, and the usual field of pixels had been swapped for two people. Stunt performers in Ryu and Ken costumes took their marks behind the glass and waited for someone in the crowd to pick a side.
Cody Rhodes posted the Street Fighter clip yesterday and immediately made the whole thing look inevitable. He wears a tall blond plastic flattop on his head, the exact silhouette Guile has carried since the early Street Fighter games, and talks about it the way old luxury car ads used to talk about leather and wind resistance. “It’s ergonomic and it’s aerodynamic. And it can be yours,” he says, while Noah Centineo and Callina Liang reach up and pull popcorn out of the hollow where the hair should be.
Neon put the first official teaser for Artificial in front of viewers this morning, and Andrew Garfield already looks settled into Sam Altman’s skin. Luca Guadagnino directed the 140-minute film from a screenplay by Simon Rich. It covers the five days in November 2023 when OpenAI’s board removed Altman as chief executive and then brought him back while the company sat at the center of a race to control the technology that would soon sit on every phone and laptop.