Today, Welles — who played Farm Aid 40 last month in Minneapolis with Willie Nelson, Neil Young and others on his political ...

Before Orson Welles, who died in October 1985, directed his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that marked ...

In 1938, the Great Depression ravaged America, the world was on the brink of war, and Superman debuted. And on the night before Halloween that year, another event occurred that sent America into pure ...

Amazon is planning to use artificial intelligence to recreate destroyed footage from Orson Welles’ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” — but the late directors’ estate is calling bull. In a ...

Beatrice Welles, daughter of the legendary director Orson Welles, has said she is “angry and disgusted” by an AI company’s plans to reconstruct 43 minutes of destroyed footage from his 1942 drama The ...

On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to re-create the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Why is a startup that ...

Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of “A Better Tomorrow II” (1987), John Woo’s sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic “A Better Tomorrow” ...

An AI firm is looking to recreate the lost footage of an Orson Welles film. Credit: Central Press/Getty Images An Amazon-backed AI firm is looking to recreate the lost footage of a Hollywood ...

In a statement to Variety, David Reeder of Reeder Brand Management, who handles the estate for Beatrice Welles, said that he was not informed of Fable’s plans to tackle “Magnificent Ambersons.” The ...

The aspiring ‘Netflix of AI’ has a plan to remake the original cut of Welles’ adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons. The aspiring ‘Netflix of AI’ has a plan to remake the original cut of Welles’ ...

The outrage around the Sphere’s AI-“enhanced” Wizard Of Oz wasn’t enough to deter a different AI firm from meddling with a classic film, apparently. Showrunner, the streamer that bills itself as “the ...