
The Verge - 1 hour 19 min ago
Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT , the studio plans to let users of OpenAI's Sora AI video generator create clips featuring hundreds of Disney-owned characters. Sora AI users will be able to generate as much uncanny Pixar / Marvel / Star Wars slop for themselves as they want, and Disney will share some of it in a special section...

The Guardian - 1 hour 56 min ago
The media company is investing $1bn in OpenAI and allowing its characters to be used in generated videos Users of OpenAI's video generation app will soon be able to see their own faces alongside characters from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and Disney's animated films, according to a joint announcement from the startup and Disney on Thursday. Perhaps you, Lightning McQueen and Iron Man are all dancing together in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Sora is an app made by OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT,...

Engadget - 2 hours 52 min ago
This morning Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement: Starting in 2026, ChatGPT and Sora can generate images and videos incorporating Disney IP, including more than 200 characters from the company's stable of Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel brands. To say these companies make for strange bedfellows is an understatement. The agreement brings together two parties with very different public stances on copyright. Before OpenAI released Sora, the company reportedly notified studios...

Nerdist - 4 hours 46 min ago
Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI, allowing users to make video content utilizing characters from Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney animation. The post Disney Investing $1 Billion in OpenAI appeared first on Nerdist .

Screen Rant - 5 hours 28 min ago
Marvel has announced that, alongside the upcoming Star Wars: Maul Shadow Lord animated series, Darth Maul will also be getting a new prequel.

Brutal Gamer - 7 hours 5 min ago
Darth Maul is back, in something of an origin story. But before the show debuted on Disney+, there’s a Marvel comic prologue. The Shadow Lord, Darth Maul returns One of the breakout stars of the first Star Wars prequel, Darth Maul seemingly died at the close of The Phantom Menace. But, of course, that wasn’t … The post Marvel’s upcoming Star Wars: Shadow Of Maul to serve as lead-in for Disney+ show appeared first on BrutalGamer .

Rolling Stone - 7 hours 12 min ago
Deal will allow users to create short-form videos featuring Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters...

UPI - 7 hours 29 min ago
Sora users can create content featuring over 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars beginning next year in the three-year deal.

Huffington Post - 7 hours 43 min ago
The painting that introduced the movie "Star Wars" to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million on Wednesday.

ABC News - 9 hours 4 min ago
Documents that detail Lawrence Kasdan's career have been donated to the University of Michigan, the writer and director's alma mater...

Engadget - 9 hours 38 min ago
It looks like Disney wasted no time delivering on CEO Bob Iger's promise to bring AI-generated content to Disney+. On Thursday, the company announced the start of a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 of its beloved characters, including those from Star Wars and Pixar, to the Sora app and ChatGPT. With the deal in place, OpenAI users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to generate images that tap into Disney's intellectual property, with costumes, props, vehicles...

The Guardian - 9 hours 50 min ago
Agreement comes amid anxiety in Hollywood over impact of AI on the industry, expression and rights of creators Walt Disney has announced a $1bn equity investment in OpenAI, enabling the AI start-up's Sora video generation tool to use its characters. Users of Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that draw on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters as part of a three-year licensing agreement between OpenAI and the entertainment giant. Continue reading...

Deadline Hollywood - 9 hours 58 min ago
Disney has put its chips in on AI. The Hollywood giant has signed a major deal with OpenAI, investing $1B in the artificial intelligence giant and handing over characters from Frozen and Star Wars to generative AI app Sora. The three-year licensing agreement will allow Sora users to create bespoke fan videos with the likes […]...

Screen Rant - 10 hours 22 min ago
DC's new Superman, David Corenswet, just shared a major career update that could finally lead to an exciting Star Wars movie being revived.

Newser - 11 hours 21 min ago
The painting that introduced Star Wars to the world nearly 50 years ago and was reproduced in an iconic movie poster sold at auction on Wednesday for $3.875 million. The acrylic and airbrush painting by the artist and movie poster designer Tom Jung first appeared in newspaper ads on...

ABC News - 22 hours 25 min ago
The painting that introduced the movie "Star Wars" to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million...

TechRadar - 22 hours 52 min ago
The Endor Collection drops December 11...

NY Post - 23 hours 21 min ago
Disneyland is gearing up for its annual refurbishment season in early 2026, and it's shaping up to be a total gut punch for people hoping to experience the park's biggest thrills.