Cultures have built their own identities upon myths. The stories they tell, the lessons they instill … and the horrors they may wreak.

The myths of Christianity are undoubtedly the cornerstone of the religion, but there is none more holy or mysterious than the myth of the Second Coming. Consecration director and co-writer Christopher Smith definitely saw an opportunity within that myth, and he enlisted Jena Malone to help him explore that concept and what forms it could take in his eighth feature film.

They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, and in some cases that may be true. But when it comes to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s buzzy new chatbot, I’m not sure “flattery” is the word that fits.

Like any buzzy new piece of technology ChatGPT is now dealing with the inevitable dark side of its popularity: dozens of shoddy (and potentially dangerous) app clones. No, seriously, app stores are flooded with them.

Well, this certainly is an unexpected journey for the Lord of the Rings franchise: Warner Bros. Pictures, along with Swedish video game company Embracer Group, will be bringing the intricate and richly detailed fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien back to the big screen.

During an earnings call Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that a deal has been brokered to make “multiple” films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s books. The new Lord of the Rings films will be developed through WB’s New Line Cinema label, which produced Peter Jackson’s highly lauded Lord of the Rings film trilogy in the early 2000s, and his less extolled three-part adaptation of The Hobbit in the 2010s.