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Fans of pop culture trivia have a new destination with the launch of Hollywood Iq.

The daily on-the-street show has newly debuted and features questions about film, TV and pop culture. Hailing from Mad Realities, it is available on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram and features such formats as “Guess the Movie From Its Cast” and “What Do They Have in Common?”

Hollywood Iq quietly debuted two months ago and has since surpassed 60 million views across all platforms. Sandy Melara hosts the show, while Talia Schulhof serves as creative producer, and Mad Realities co-founder Alice Ma is executive producer.

“Hollywood Iq is the trivia show of the modern age, designed for our generation and built for the Internet,” says Ma. “Just like crosswords were born from print, Jeopardy! from TV, and HQ Trivia from apps, Hollywood Iq comes from the world of shortform content. With Hollywood Iq, we...

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When EA Sports lost the FIFA moniker and instead moved to the EA Sports Fc branding last year, it came with a few changes. Nintendo players finally got an up-to-date version of the game, albeit one that came with a few major port issues and only just escaped relegation, and there were a handful of other tweaks that didn't create a major shift. However, EA Sports has promised wider changes with EA Sports Fc 25.

EA Sports Fc 25 is the latest in the long...

New Delhi, Sep 6 (Ians) Virtual meeting platform Zoom on Wednesday introduced its generative AI digital assistant “AI Companion” (formerly Zoom Iq), which will be available at no additional cost for customers with paid Zoom user accounts.

According to the company, Zoom AI Companion delivers powerful, real-time digital assistant capabilities to help users improve productivity and work together more effectively.

Users will be able to access AI Companion from within their existing workflows such as within Zoom Meetings, Zoom Team Chat, and Zoom Whiteboard for capabilities such as Meeting summaries, Team Chat compose, and Whiteboard generation with a simple, easy-to-use experience.

“We were founded on doing what’s right for our customers, and we firmly believe that offering Zoom AI Companion at no additional cost to our paid Zoom user accounts delivers tremendous value as we all navigate the challenges facing us today,” Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom, said in a statement.

New Delhi, April 6 (Ians) With the Ipl fever gripping the country, Sportiqo, a blockchain-based fantasy sports platform, has announced the launch of a new digital campaign featuring renowned cricketer Robin Uthappa.

The campaign is aimed at promoting Sportiqo’s sports solutions and engaging with sports enthusiasts worldwide.

The digital campaign, titled, “Khel On. Trade On,” will showcase Robin Uthappa – the brand ambassador of Sportiqo, highlighting the company’s cutting-edge sports technology products and services and how one can learn about financial trading by applying their skills and knowledge of their favourite sport. The digital campaign will include a series of videos on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube videos/shorts and other engaging digital activities to connect with sports fans and promote Sportiqo’s offerings.

Speaking about the new digital campaign, Robin Uthappa said, “As a player, I believe that a well-executed digital campaign has the power to connect,...

Comedian Jonah Ray discusses his favorite year in cinema (1994) with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Airport (1970)

Airport 1975 (1975)

Airport ’77 (1977)

Airplane! (1980)

Basket Case (1982)

Destroy All Neighbors (Tbd)

Satanic Hispanics (2022)

Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022)

Black Christmas (1974) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s franchise power rankings

Tales From The Crypt (1972)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Pooka! (2018)

Pooka Lives! (2020)

Harvey (1950) – Joe Dante’s trailer commentary

Ed Wood (1994)

Black Dynamite (2009)

Bride Of The Monster (1955) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

Glen Or Glenda (1953)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Frankenweenie (2012)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Dumb And Dumber (1994)

Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)

The Mask (1994)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Scream (1996)

Evil Laugh (1986)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Clerks (1994)

The Search For One-Eye Jimmy (1994)

Cabin Boy (1994)

Scary Movie 2 (2001)

Scary Movie 4...

Production designer Stuart Wurtzel will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th annual Art Directors Guild Awards, the guild announced today.

The award comes in recognition of the “exceptional spectrum” of designs Wurtzel has created for film, TV and theater over the course of six decades.

“From…Hannah and Her Sisters to his iconic evocation of New York during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s in Angels in America, Stuart Wurtzel’s contribution to the art of Production Design stands alone,” said Mark Worthington, Art Directors Council Chair.

An Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner, Wurtzel has collaborated throughout his storied career with prominent directors, ranging from Peter Yates to Woody Allen. On the TV side, he recently designed Showtime’s The Loudest Voice, along with HBO’s Divorce.

Additional credits include Enchanted, Stepmom, Hair, Mermaids, Romeo Is Bleeding, Three Men and a Little Lady, Old Gringo,...

HBO’s superhero series “Watchmen” is finally making its premiere on Oct. 20, joining a slew of other television shows and movies being added to the service just in time for Halloween.

The Home Box Office is also debuting “Catherine the Great” starring Helen Mirren on Oct. 21, and the sixth and final season of “Silicon Valley” on Oct. 27.

A handful of shows will have their season finales this month — on Oct. 13, Season 2 of “Succession” and Season 1 of “The Righteous Gemstones” have their season finales. Season 1 of “Our Boys” ends Oct. 7, and the third and final season of “The Deuce” comes to an end Oct. 28.

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Leaving HBO throughout the month are films like “A Time to Kill,” “Bruno,” “The Danish Girl,” and “Waking Ned Devine.”

Here’s the full list of everything new to and leaving HBO in October:

Oct. 1

Kin, 2018

Diego Maradona

Abuela’s Luck,...

The legacy of Albert Einstein cannot be overstated — even when we take the scientist’s accomplishments for granted, he’s one of our planet’s most famous pop culture figures, recognizable across generations. The way he’s been depicted on screen has ranged from well-researched takes on the man’s life, such as Nat Geo Channel’s new anthology series “Genius,” premiering today, to, shall we say, somewhat more out-there fare.

Read More: ‘Genius’: Albert Einstein Undergoes a Heated Interrogation in Exclusive Sneak Peek — Watch

Below are some of the most notable examples we found featuring the great scientist depicted in a less-than-serious state. What’s interesting about looking at all of these examples together is how on the one hand, Einstein as an icon has been utilized for the sake of comedy for decades now. But when film or TV choose to engage with the reality of the man himself,...

As The Fate of The Furious enters theaters, a ranking of its 1st Assistant Director’s oeuvre.

Friday brings us the release of The Fate of the Furious, the eighth film in The Fast & The Furious series. Thus, there could be no better time to look back and rank the previous works of one of the films most notable craftsmen, a man whose name is legendary. I speak of course of First Assistant Director Frank Capra III.

Capra III is the grandson of director Frank Capra, a Hollywood legend whose work includes It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It’s a Wonderful Life. How did that pedigree fare two generations removed? This exhaustive look at Mr. Capra III’s 1st Ad career will tell the tale.

While the film’s director often gets the lion’s share of the credit, the First Ad is one of the most critical positions on set. In...

2016 has been a hard year, and over the past several months, quite a few iconic celebrities have said good-bye. Today, the Ghostbusters family has lost one of their own as the sad news was announced that Alice Drummond has passed away. She was 88 at the time of her death.

A veteran stage actress, Alice is perhaps best known as Alice the librarian in the original 1984 Ghostbusters. Though she only had a very small part, her scene kicks off what would become one of the most iconic movies of that generation. And she is a fan-favorite, getting the movie off to a rousing start as she comes face-to-face with the movie's first terrifying ghost.

Drummond reportedly died at her home in the Bronx, New York, this past Wednesday. She succumbed to complications that result from a fall she had survived over two months ago. The news was reported by the New York Times.

Early in Steve Jobs, the Aaron Sorkin-scripted, Danny Boyle-directed biopic about the mercurial Apple co-founder, the hero does something so right yet so peculiar that you understand why a cult sprung up around him. It's 1984, a few weeks after the legendary SuperBowl commercial heralding the arrival of the Apple Macintosh. The official public unveiling is minutes away. The crowd, which has been kept waiting as its creator dithers and tinkers backstage, has begun muttering and stomping its feet. Jobs is a serenely confident pill of a man, micromanaging everything,...

In a time where most romantic movies are emotionally manipulative and cringe-inducing to sit through, Words and Pictures is a real treat. Directed by Fred Schepisi, the man who also gave us Roxanne and I.Q., the film stars Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche as rival teachers at an advanced public school and artists whose passion for their work seems to have disappeared.

Jack Marcus (Owen) is an English teacher who has a great love of words that just enthralls his students, but he has not written a book in a long time and instead finds himself getting drunk on a regular basis. Dina Delsanto (Binoche) is the new art teacher who does not go easy on her students, and her worsening rheumatoid arthritis keeps her from completing any new paintings. When these two meet, they try to one up the other to the point where they start up a competition...

"I don't like to go down the same road with films, I don't like to repeat myself," director Fred Schepisi told us recently over the phone from Australia. Indeed looking over his filmography, one can't deny the diversity of his work in a career that has spanned more than four decades. From bracing drama ("A Cry In The Dark") to a John Le Carré based thriller ("The Russia House") to comedy ("Roxanne," "I.Q.," "Mr. Baseball"), Schepisi has worked with talent ranging from rising actors that would go on to become worldwide superstars (Will Smith in "Six Degrees Of Separation") to bonafide legends (Paul Newman in "Empire Falls"). And for his latest, "Words And Pictures," which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, Schepisi is once again trying something different. Starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche, the film tells the story of former literary star turned prep school English teacher Jack Marcus,...

• Tim Robbins will star in and direct the dramedy Man Under, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Chloe Moretz on board to play members of a family who deal with the repercussions of a photograph of them getting displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Though he recently directed a couple episodes of HBO’s Treme, this will be Robbins’ first time helming a feature film since 1999′s Cradle Will Rock. Ann Cherkis penned the script. [Variety]

• Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans) has joined, and Benedict Cumberbatch (i.e. Benny Batch) is in talks to join, Absolutely Anything,...

When one thinks of the word “genius,” the first image that pops into most people’s heads is that of scientist Albert Einstein and his unique hair style. Considered a pioneer of human knowledge, Einstein quickly became one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century. No major film autobiography has ever been made of him, but Walt Disney Pictures almost did make one in the 1980s, starring Richard Dreyfuss as the famous physicist. However, Dreyfuss was more interested in playing another famous figure of the 20th century. As Disney insider Jim Hill says,

“This was a film that was supposed to be done right after Tron. Richard Dreyfuss came in and signed a deal with Disney…. They were going to do the film autobiography of Albert Einstein…. They were actually going to use the CG graphics that were done for Tron to explain Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theories.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Australian director Fred Schepisi was something of a big deal. The 73-year-old filmmaker got his start back in Oz with 1976's "The Devil's Playground," made his U.S. debut with the underrated Western "Barbarosa," and went on to make acclaimed, successful pictures like "Roxanne," "A Cry In The Dark," "The Russia House" and "Six Degrees Of Separation," as well as a few that didn't quite connect in the same way, like "I.Q." and "A Fish Called Wanda" semi-sequel "Fierce Creatures." The filmmaker's been relatively quiet in the last ten years, with 2003's Michael/Kirk/Cameron Douglas disaster "It Runs In The Family" and 2005's acclaimed HBO drama "Empire Falls," which featured Paul Newman's final live-action performance, as his only output.

But with his latest film "The Eye Of The Storm," a return to Australia that stars Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis and Sam Neill, given...

Remember that movie from the mid-90s called I.Q.? One of the last movies of Walter Matthau's career, the Oscar winning actor portrayed Albert Einstein in a romantic comedy with Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan. It was a silly little film and critics didn't go nuts over it, but it was an interesting feature film version of the most famous theoretical physicist of all time. You know what would be even weirder, though? If you had Robin Williams star in a movie about Einstein. Laugh all you want, it's something that the comedian wants to do. Bang Showbiz (via Digital Spy) recently spoke with Williams, and during the interview the actor expressed his interest in playing both the inventor of the theory of general relativity  as well as our 26th president. "At some point I would love to play Einstein," Willaims said. "I would love to play him at...

Michael York dashes onto the cinematic scene as the blundering but very enthusiastic D'Artagnan in Richard Lester's hugely enjoyable period comic romp. The late great Roy Kinnear is the long-suffering vassal of aristocratic swordsmen Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Frank Finlay, whilst Raquel Welch and Faye Dunaway shine as heroine and villainess, respectively. Producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind filmed the following year's sequel back-to-back with this more successful first part, which approach they would revisit shortly for Superman and Superman II. Dumas with wit, energy and integrity.

Notable Quotable: "That man in his time has insulted me, broken my father's sword, had me clubbed to the ground, laid violent hands on the woman I love! He is inconvenient. "

Martin Anderson

Mike Nichols and Buck Henry achieve what seemed impossible, at least on the evidence of an earlier attempt: to transliterate the pitch-dark war humour of Joseph Heller into a cohesive,...

Ron Bass (who’s wrote both Rain Man and Entrapment, so there’s that) has written an Albert Einstein biopic, and the hit-or-miss Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Last Holiday) will direct it. The project’s titled Einstein for now. Because, you know, it’s about the German mathematician.

Paul Schiff will produce the film for Hollywood Studios International while Hsi CEO Steven Saxton will executive produce, as will Eric Christenson, the Hsi Films President. Koldo Eguren of Hero Pictures is executive producing also, as well as Golan Ramras of Go Long Productions, who’s on as producer.

Here’s the film’s trajectory via press release [Deadline]:

“[Einstein] chronicles the true inspirational story of the trials, tragedies and vindication of the single-most celebrated scientist of the 20th century. Torn between the burdens of a family and his restless pursuit of unlocking the mysteries of the universe, he not only achieved...

There is a new biopic of Albert Einstein coming along, and Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) is now set to direct from a script by Ron Bass (Rain Man, My Best Friend's Wedding). No casting has been decided at this point, so actors, it's time to break out your wild white fright wigs. Deadline [1] has the press release for Einstein, which announces that the film will be shot in Germany and Europe, and that casting will be undertaken in the next few weeks. Sales are going on at the European Film Market in Berlin right now. (And this is a different project from a previously announced Einstein biopic, which was being written [2] by Stephen Schiff. Competing Einstein films? Of course! Maybe in one, he can team up with Snow White.) The film will chronicle "the true inspirational story of the trials, tragedies and vindication of the single-most celebrated scientist of the 20th century.

Hollywoodnews.com: Tim Robbins, who broke up with longtime partner Susan Sarandon at the onset of the year, has been hanging out with actress Meg Ryan – a lot.

However, according to Ryan’s rep, “Meg and Tim have been great friends for many years and remain so.”

Page Six has been spotting them around Los Angeles, at the Actors Gang nonprofit theater where Robbins served as a member early on in his career.

Rumors surfaced that Ryan and Robbins had a long-term affair during his relationship with Sarandon. Both actors have denied the scuttle bucket.

Ryan and Robbins appeared in two films together, 1986’s “Top Gun” and the 1994 romantic comedy “I.Q.” with Walter Matthau playing Albert Einstein.

Leading character actor Lou Jacobi appeared in numerous productions on stage, film and television during his long career including several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

He was born Louis Jacobovitch in Toronto, Canada, on December 28, 1913. He performed on stage from his youth and began his film career in England in the 1950s. One of his early film roles was as Blackie Isaacs in the 1956 fantasy A Kid for Two Farthings, about a young boy and the sickly, one-horned goat he believes is a magical unicorn.

He made his Broadway debut in the acclaimed drama The Diary of Anne Frank in 1955 as Hans Van Daan, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. Jacobi was also seen in the 1966 spy spoof The Last of the Secret Agents? with comics Marty Allen and Steve Rossi. He was also featured in Woody Allen’s comedy Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...

On October 23, actor Lou Jacobi passed away in his Manhattan home at the age of 95.

Born in Toronto, Jacobi began acting as a boy, but really kicked off his career in the '50s, playing Captain Noakes in Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary in 1953 and soon making his Broadway debut in 1955 as one of the attic dwellers in The Diary of Anne Frank. Only a few years later, he brought his role as Mr. Hans Van Daan to the big screen opposite Shelley Winters in 1959 and followed it with a long career as a character actor, filled with notable film and television roles.

Cinematically, he played Uncle Morty in My Favorite Year, a plant store owner in Arthur, Herb in Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Gabriel Krichinsky in Avalon, and even Kurt Godel in I.Q. -- his last film. But perhaps his most notable character was Sam Musgrave in Woody Allen...

Actor Lou Jacobi has died at the age of 95.

The Canadian star - real name Louis Harold Jacobovitch - passed away in his home in Manhattan, New York on Friday, reports the Associated Press.

Jacobi made his debut on Broadway in 1955 with a role in The Diary of Anne Frank before starring in nine other Broadway plays, including 1959's Tenth Man and Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn in 1961.

He also starred in a number of movies, including Arthur with Dudley Moore, Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * (*But Were Afraid To Ask), and I.Q. alongside Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins.

Jacobi is survived by his brother, Rabbi Avrom Jacobovitch, as well as sister Rae Gold.

By Wrap Staff

Character actor Lou Jacobi, who worked extensively in television and appeared in several key films, has died at the age of 95.

The Canadian-born actor's long list of TV appearances included "St. Elsewhere," "Cagney & Lacy," ''The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "Love, American Style," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" and "Playhouse 90." He was a regular on "The Dean Martin Show."

His film credits included "Avalon," "Arthur," "My Favorite Year" and "I.Q." He appeared in both the film...

Two scores by Jerry Goldsmith licenced from Paramount Pictures – the 1966 sci-fi thriller Seconds and the 1994 comedy I.Q. – is being put out on a new CD from La-La Land Records, limited to 3000 copies. The CD begins shipping on October 16 and features nearly 70 minutes of music, 38 minutes from I.Q. and 31 minutes from Seconds. The last-mentioned is presented in mono only since no stereo ...

In anticipation of the home entertainment debut of J.J. Abrams' thrilling reinvention of the Star Trek franchise, Paramount Home Entertainment will give audiences the chance to revisit where it all began with a galaxy full of new DVD and Blu-ray releases. Docking on September 22, 2009 are the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection on DVD, which includes the first six "Star Trek" films and loads of special features; the Star Trek: The Next Generation Film Collection on DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray, featuring the four "Star Trek" films starring the Next Generation crew with new special features, plus a bonus disc with over an hour of additional content; Star Trek: The Original Series Season Two on Blu-ray in high definition for the first time ever; plus Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and...