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Apple is working on a fix for its text-to-speech feature, which momentarily transcribes the word “racist” as “Trump.”

. Ahead, world champion powerlifters and coaches share the shoes they train in and out of the gym.Is it okay to wear running shoes for cross-training?You can wear running shoes for certain cardio-based cross-training like HIIT, agility moves, and sprinting.

EXCLUSIVE: Lincoln Child’s New York Times bestselling book series Jeremy Logan, is being put into feature development at Amazon MGM Studios with Safehouse Pictures producing.Jeremy Lott and Cory Goodman are writing the script. The film will follow Jeremy Logan who is a self-proclaimed “enigmatologist,” an investigator who works to debunk the paranormal and unexplained using modern science. The Jeremy Logan books include the Child’s novels Deep Storm, Terminal Freeze, The Third Gate, The Forgotten Room, Full Wolf Moon, and Chrysalis. The film will fall under Safehouse Pictures’ first-look film deal with the studio, with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell producing.Goodman and Lott are currently adapting the comic series Proof for FOX. They have also landed several seven-figure spec deals including Lore for Warner Bros. starring Dwayne Johnson, and Hood for Sony with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Separately, Goodman wrote Priest and Underworld: Awakening for Screen Gems, The Last Witch Hunter for Lionsgate, and previously collaborated with Safehouse Pictures on The Oberlin Incident for Paramount. Additionally, Lott is executive producing Hannibal for Netflix. This project marks a homecoming for Lott as he worked at MGM until 2012. Goodman is repped by Verve, Aperture, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, et al. Lott is represented by Aperture and Goodman, Genow, Schkenman, Shelkinson, et al.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor An Apple dictation feature for the iPhone has been mistakenly transcribing “racist” as “Trump,” an issue that came to light after users posted about the issue on TikTok and social media. “We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” an Apple rep said in a statement Tuesday.

Thania Garcia My Chemical Romance, Blink-182 and Deftones are scheduled to headline the Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Music Festival, taking place September 19-21 in Piedmont Park. Vampire Weekend, Lenny Kravitz, Cage The Elephant, Alabama Shakes, the Black Keys, Sublime, “Weird Al” Yankovic, the Marias, Public Enemy, Lucy Dacus, Devo, Pixies, the Backseat Lovers, TV On The Radio, the All-American Rejects, Idles and more are also on the lineup. “Welcome to a new era,” the festival wrote on Instagram alongside the festival poster.

Golf fans are excited to play as their favorite players, including Max Homa, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tiger Woods and others, to win the PGA Tour for themselves — especially since there was no PGA Tour 2K24 in 2024. Ready for pre-order, “PGA Tour 2K25” for Sony PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is priced at $69.99 at Amazon and Target. The game is available to play on Friday, Feb.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After what felt like a never-ending wait for the second season, stalled by Hollywood strikes and on-set drama, “Severance” has done nothing less but deliver for its newest installment. The show reached a fever pitch with its hyped fourth episode, which features the season’s biggest twist yet — and it didn’t take long for Lumon-heads to open up Adobe Illustrator to make fan-made merch for their favorite show, featuring stills from multiple episodes of Season 2.

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EXCLUSIVE: Will Yun Lee (The Good Doctor), Abby Miller (Home Before Dark), Jon Huertas (This Is Us) and Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) are set to headline the indie feature California Scenario, co-written by Dara Resnik (Daredevil, Home Before Dark) and James Takata (This Is Us, The Company You Keep).

Much of world cinema’s lost works have been victims of either technology with poor materials like nitrate film or the ignorance of a limited and often bigoted industry. Thankfully for film fans, it is becoming increasingly difficult for either to deal a death blow to a film’s trajectory. 

Ryan Reynolds‘ gin brand won’t appear in the upcoming A Simple Favor sequel, Another Simple Favor.

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Harbor Entertainment will release the Patricia Clarkson-starring drama Lilly, based on the true story of working-class hero Lilly Ledbetter, exclusively in theaters beginning May 9.

EXCLUSIVE: After launching his Buddy Games franchise, Josh Duhamel has found his next project as he is set to direct and star in the comedy Preschool. The cast features also Michael Socha, Antonia Thomas, Charity Wakefield, Fenella Woolgar and James Cosmo. The script was written by Richard D’ovidio and is based on a story by Richard and Nicole D’ovidio. 

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” is returning to theaters for its 20th anniversary, starting April 25. For the re-release event, graphic artist Matt Ferguson has created a new poster to celebrate the film. The film will run in U.S.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Hide your valuables, “The Sims 4″ is finally adding an iconic feature fans of the early days of the game franchise have been clamoring for: the burglar. In “The Sims,” “The Sims 2,” and “The Sims 3,” the burglar character who sneaks into houses, usually at night when Sims are asleep, to steal household items is a staple among the many different highs and lows of a Sim’s life.

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy is out now.

Katie Cassidy is taking on a new role!

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Appel has been tapped to direct The Breadwinner for TriStar Pictures, starring comedian Nate Bargatze. TriStar preemptively acquired the comedy pitch written by Bargatze and Dan Lagana.Bargatze, the world’s top touring comedian today, will make his feature film acting debut in the film and will also serve as a producer alongside Lagana. Jeremy Latcham will produce the film through Wonder Project.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ Verity, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, has five new cast additions: Ismael Cruz Cordóva (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Brady Wagner (Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along), Irina Dvorovenko (And Just Like That…), K.K. Moggie (The Good Wife), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama).

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian outfits Slaterverse Pictures and Black Fawn Films have wrapped production on horror feature The Undertone, starring Nina Kiri (The Handmaid’s Tale).

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Anonymous Oscar ballots have become a contentious topic among film pundits. Some consider them a “red herring,” arguing they distract from a predetermined outcome. There’s some truth to that.