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Neil DeGrasse Tyson turned his sights on the biggest movie of the year Top Gun: Maverick, and he’s getting help from Elon Musk.The particular issue that Tyson has decided to tweet about is the scene at the beginning of the movie, where Tom Cruise’s Maverick is test piloting a supersonic jet. In the end the plane breaks apart and Maverick has to eject. However, according to Tyson, Maverick would never have survived the ejection.Maverick has exceeded the speed of sound by a factor of 10, and it’s not hard to believe that an unprotected human body is going to have trouble moving at that speed, and then stopping suddenly, which is essentially what happens when Maverick pulls the ejection handle. Even jets themselves can have trouble with those speeds, which is something Tyson explains in a follow-up tweet. Elon Musk had a similar feeling, as he replied to one of Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s tweet’s to suggest a different mechanism should have been used for ejection, as it might have meant actual survival...

Madame Tussauds New York is now showcasing its first Loki wax figure. The famous wax museum, was founded in 1835 and has different museums around the world that display various, extremely detailed wax figures of popular film and TV characters, as well as famous figures throughout history. The New York branch of the museum has over 200 wax figures and is the most famous wax museum in the worldThe Loki variant wax figure is in the section of the museum called the Marvel Hall of Heroes, that features other Marvel wax figures such as Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, the Hulkbuster, Nick Fury, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and Captain America...

As is repeated ad nauseam in any film school, Kurosawa took inspiration from American Westerns to make his samurai films which, in turn, inspired the makers of a new generation of American Westerns. Kurosawa is not quoted in any particular source on this, however — it is merely a generally agreed-upon critical consensus. One can find any number of non-Japanese filmmakers, though, transposing Kurosawa's stories into other genres. The master's "Yojimbo," for instance, became both Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" as well as Walter Hill's "Last Man Standing. The Magnificent Seven," as stated above, was not a hit upon its release, but did eventually expand in popularity to the point where sequels could be made. "Return of the Seven" came out in 1966, followed by "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" in 1969 and "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" in 1972. The film itself was remade by Antoine Fuqua in 2016 with Denzel Washington.  Kurosawa never made a sequel to "Seven Samurai"...

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) today announced the establishment of its first LED virtual production stage, located at Sony Innovation Studios in Culver City. With LED virtual production transforming the way film and television are made, the new stage is the world’s largest using Sony’s high brightness and wide color gamut Crystal LED display panels. The panels were created in collaboration with top engineers at SPE for use in virtual production. The establishment of this LED stage allows Sony Innovation Studios (SIS) to expand its virtual production workflow across various entertainment platforms and seamlessly merge the real and virtual worlds with its Atom View technology and proprietary stage-integration software...

Quentin Tarantino is prepping to embark on a book tour for his first nonfiction book “Cinema Speculation,” which releases on Nov. 1. The tour will see the filmmaker, cinephile and now podcaster make stops in five major U.S. cities from Nov. 3-16. Tarantino will kick off his promo jaunt in Los Angeles, then head to San Francisco, Portland and Austin before concluding at The Town Hall in New York City. In “Cinema Speculation,” the “Pulp Fiction” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director finally does what fans have anticipated throughout his 30-year long career: write about and analyze the films that shaped him, from his early childhood to his adulthood. As one of the most famous movie-lovers of all time, Tarantino packs in film criticism, film theory, reporting and personal history while centering on key movies made throughout the 1970s. The book will be published by Harper Collins and is currently available for pre-order on Amazon...

A distressing new poll from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has revealed that almost three-quarters of U.K. film screenwriters feel they’re not properly credited for their work and are being “edited out” of the filmmaking process. A snapshot poll by the trade union has shown that more than 70% of writers feel they hadn’t been properly credited in the promotion and distribution of their work. WGGB research found that producers prefer to credit actors and directors in marketing campaigns – leaving writers largely unrecognized for their craft. In other findings: 70% of produced screenwriters reported that a director has re-written their work, while almost 50% reported to have been “belittled and excluded” from the creative decision-making process....