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The Star
5 hours ago
- Business
- The Star
White House unveils artificial intelligence policy plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House released an artificial intelligence (AI) policy plan on Wednesday spelling out priorities for the U.S. to achieve "global dominance" in the sector. U.S. President Donald Trump's plan calls for open-source and open-weight AI models to be made freely available by developers for anyone in the world to download and modify. The plan also calls for the Commerce Department to research Chinese AI models for alignment with Chinese Communist Party talking points and censorship. As previously reported by Reuters, it adds the federal government should not allow AI-related federal funding to be directed toward states with "burdensome" regulations. (Reporting by Chris Sanders, writing by Maiya Keidan)
Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Live-Action ‘Lilo & Stitch' New On Streaming This Week With Bonus Features
Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) and Lilo (Maia Kealoha) in "Lilo & Stitch." Disney's live-action version of Lilo & Stitch is coming to digital streaming this week. Lilo & Stitch opened in theaters on May 23. The official logline for the movie reads, 'A live-action reimagining of Disney's 2002 animated classic, Lilo & Stitch is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.' Maia Kealoha stars as Lilo while Chris Sanders — who co-directed the 2002 animated film and provided the voice of Stitch — reprises his voice role for the new live-action version. Sydney Agudong also stars in the new Lilo & Stitch as Lilo's older sister, Nani. Lilo & Stitch, which is directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, also stars Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Hill and Kaipo Dudoit and the voice of Hannah Waddingham. Lilo & Stitch will arrive on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Tuesday, July 22, noted Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in a press release on Monday. Lilo & Stitch will be available to purchase or rent on PVOD on other digital platforms, including Prime Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube. The film is available for pre-order for purchase for $29.99 and is expected to be available for a 48-hour rental for $24.99, since digital rentals typically run $5 less than purchase prices. 'Lilo & Stitch' Bonus Features Include Deleted Scenes And Featurettes Per WDSHE, bonus features will be available for those who purchase a copy of Lilo & Stitch on PVOD, but noted features may vary by retailers. The deleted scenes include Nani Cleans Up and My Name Is Nani. The bonus features also include bloopers from the film. According to a WDSHE press release, the bonus featurettes are: Ohana Means Family: Making Lilo & Stitch – Learn how an animated classic becomes an instant live-action favorite. Explore the challenges of bringing Stitch into the real world, how the familiar images of the original were recreated, and join returning cast members on a set that embodies 'ohana. Drawn to Life – Check out scenes from the animated original film alongside their live-action counterparts to see how these beloved key moments were faithfully recreated. And uncover some easter eggs along the way! In addition, WHSHE noted that those who purchase the film will receive the bonus featurette Scenes with Stitch, where they can, "Hear Stitch talk about some of his favorite scenes as he watches the movie play." The scenes include: Escape To Earth Feeding Fish Hula Performance Stitch Gets Named Bath Time Watch This Lilo & Stitch over the weekend became the first film in 2025 to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. To date, the film has earned $418.1 million domestically and $589.8 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $1.008 billion against a production budget of $100 million before prints and advertising costs, according to The Numbers. Lilo & Stitch is new on PVOD on Tuesday and will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 26.
Forbes
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Live-Action ‘Lilo & Stitch' Gets Streaming Premiere Date
Lilo (Maia Kealoha) and Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) in "Lilo & Stitch." Disney's Lilo & Stitch, the blockbuster live-action adaptation of the 2002 animated classic, is coming soon to digital streaming. Lilo & Stitch opened in theaters on May 23. In the film, a furry blue alien experiment gone awry is sent to Earth where he lands in Hawaii and befriends Lilo (Maia Kealoha) and an orphan being cared for by her teenage sister, Nani (Sydney Agudong). Before too long, Stitch (voice of the animated film's director Chris Sanders), who is believed to be a dog — and a very mischievous one at that — helps the heartbroken Lilo and Nani feel like they have a family again. Directed by Marcel the Shell with Shoes On filmmaker Dean Fleischer Camp, Lilo & Stitch also stars Zach Galifianakis, Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Hill and Kaipo Dudoit and the voice of Hannah Waddingham. Lilo & Stitch is expected to arrive on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Tuesday, July 22, as confirmed by a new listing on Prime Video. The film is available for pre-order for purchase for $29.99. Since PVOD rentals are typically $5 less, Lilo & Stitch will be available to rent for 48 hours for $24.99. In addition to Prime Video, the film will be available to purchase or rent on PVOD on a variety of digital outlets, including Apple TV, Fandango at Home and YouTube. How Was 'Lilo & Stitch' Received by Audiences And Critics? Lilo & Stitch to date has made $415.6 million in domestic ticket sales and $580.1 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $995.8 million against a $100 million production budget before prints and advertising costs, per The Numbers. The film earned a 71% 'fresh' rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 206 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus reads, 'Recapturing the adorable charm of the original if not quite matching its rambunctious sense of imagination, Lilo & Stitch emerges out of the crate as one of the better live-action remakes of a Disney classic.' Audiences, meanwhile, gave Lilo & Stitch a 92% 'fresh' Popcornmeter score based on 10,000-plus verified user ratings. The RT audience summary reads, 'Old and new fans beware: Cuteness and mischief team up in Lilo & Stitch to make sure nobody gets left behind.' Rated PG, Lilo & Stitch will be released on PVOD on July 22.
Forbes
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Lilo & Stitch' Is 2025's First $1 Billion Box Office Blockbuster
Director Dean Fleischer Camp's live-action remake Lilo & Stitch is about to be 2025's first $1 billion blockbuster as it should cross the magic number by sometime Wednesday at the worldwide box office. Chris Sanders and Maia Kealoha star in "Lilo & Stitch." Lilo & Stitch By The Numbers Lilo & Stitch ended it's eighth weekend of release still in the theatrical top-10, with $994.9 million worldwide box office. That leaves barely more than $5 million left to the $1 billion finish line, which is just a few more days' worth of sales. Domestically, Lilo & Stitch now sits at approximately $416 million in North America receipts. That leaves Disney's hottest film of the year just about $8 million behind A Minecraft Movie's $423.9 million as the year's highest domestic earner so far. It'll be a close race for that stateside championship title, but Lilo & Stitch's global gross has already blown past Minecraft's impressive $955 million final cume. Lilo & Stitch & Minecraft & Families Studios take note, if you want blockbuster box office in the $700+ million range, let alone the $1 billion range, family audiences increasingly drive the box office top-10. Take a close look at the top 10 films of 2024: Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, Moana 2, Despicable Me 4, Wicked, Mufasa: The Lion King, Dune: Part Two, Godzilla x Kong, Kung Fu Panda 4, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. With only a few exceptions – Deadpool & Wolverine, Dune sequel, and Godzilla/Kong sequel – the winners were movies that drew heavily on family audience attendance. Even those exceptions are big-budget IP sequels with built-in family appeal, only one of them being R-rated yet within the Marvel summer tentpole category. During the Covid era, there were some years where the top of the box office charts were a bit more mixed with adult-skewing fare, probably because there were seasons when everything was shuttered and when things were open but nobody was taking their family to indoor public gatherings. By the end of 2025, Marvel Studio's MCU summer tentpole Fantastic Four: First Steps, Disney's unstoppable sequel Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Disney's other unstoppable sequel Zootopia 2 will all have released and entered the top-10 for this year, alongside Disney's Lilo & Stitch, Warner's A Minecraft Movie, Universal's Jurassic World, Paramount's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Universal's How to Train Your Dragon, DC Studio's Superman, and Warner's F1: The Movie. The lesson is pretty clear: the movies making $700 million to $1 billion are the ones with big family turnout. This isn't some remarkable revelation, per se, but we've watched for a while as nostalgia-driven franchises met the demands of audiences who insisted their favorite beloved childhood stories grow up with them, until every family film had to lean almost more toward the parents than the kids. Now, theatrical business continues to undergo major evolution in the Covid era (not 'post-Covid era' since it didn't go away, we just decided to ignore it and live with it – until we don't, of course). Motivating audiences to show up requires recognizing the messages their sending about what they want and what they expect, if you want their box office dollars. People see less movies per year now than pre-Covid, so you have to be one of the three movies they decide to catch at theaters instead of at home. There will be exceptions to the rule, but looking to thread that needle is a lot harder than understanding the rule. The hard part isn't that it requires understanding what audiences want, the hard part is understanding why audiences want that. When we've seen big tentpole sequels fail despite a history of past success, it's almost always because the projects failed to get the why right. Lilo & Stitch End Of Year Ambitions We are all aware Avatar: Fire and Ash will be the biggest movie of 2025, with Christmas holiday and New Year remarkably all to itself, other than Zootopia 2, which opens for Thanksgiving three weeks ahead of Avatar 3's December 19th debut. While precise revenue varied, there weren't many surprises for this year's top box office contenders, as I discussed a while back. The year's final top-5 will probably be Avatar: Fire and Ash, Zootopia 2, Lilo & Stitch, Jurassic World: Rebirth, and Fantastic Four: First Steps. That puts A Minecraft Movie in sixth place and Superman probably in seventh, followed by How to Train Your Dragon, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, and F1: The Movie. So Lilo & Stitch will likely be a top-3 finisher for the year, and certainly a top-5. Even if both Jurassic World and Fantastic Four hold strong enough to top $1 billion and pass Lilo & Stitch, I don't see a path toward anything approaching $1 billion for Superman and the rest of the top-10 will top out below $600-700 million or have already finished their runs. So worst-case would be a fifth-place finish, which is unlikely. Notice Disney's family of studios seems destined for four of those top-5 spots, any way you slice it.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
July 4th Holds A Different Meaning For Titans' Fans
July 4th Holds A Different Meaning For Titans' Fans originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Shock and sadness. These were the feelings on July 4, 2009, when the news started to spread of the death of former Titans quarterback Steve "Air" McNair. The face of the Titans died from multiple gunshot wounds. While many still have questions about his passing and the surrounding circumstances to this day, one thing is certain: July 4th holds a slightly different meaning for Titans fans. Advertisement Each July 4th, you see Titans fans remembering the player that Steve McNair was. He was the unquestioned leader of the Tennessee Titans. Additionally, he possessed specific attributes that teammates, such as wide receiver Chris Sanders, admired. "He is one of the toughest football players I have ever met," Sanders told Athlon Sports when he was asked about McNair. Former Tennessee Titans QB Steve Walker IV / The Tennessean via Imagn Content Services, LLC And there was no doubt he was very tough. Back in the 1999 season, the year the Titans went to the Super Bowl, McNair underwent surgery for a ruptured disk in his back. In contact sports, such injuries typically keep players out for four to six months. For McNair, he made it back in five weeks and was there to lead Tennessee to an improbable Super Bowl run. This is just one example of the toughness he displayed on the field, as he battled through more than this injury to be there for his team. Advertisement Along with his toughness, there was also his development over his career. At the beginning of his career, there were people who questioned whether he would ever be able to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. He not only showed that he could be, but he even had a season where he shared the Associated Press MVP Award with NFL Hall of Famer Peyton Manning. Throughout his entire tenure as a member of the Titans, he consistently demonstrated toughness, grit, and a desire to lead his team to victory, cementing himself as one of the greatest Tennessee Titans of all time. And for that, McNair will always be remembered. So while his death was painful for the city of Nashville and Titans fans alike, the memories he created will never go away. Related: The Key Ingredient To The Titans' Offense This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 5, 2025, where it first appeared.
