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Comedy legend Eddie Murphy may be coming to Netflix. According to TMZ, he is reportedly in negotiations with the streaming giant to secure a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow him to create the content of his dreams. Should this pending project come to pass, the 58-year-old comic would bank around $70 million. As of 2019, he is worth a whopping $160 million largely due to his movies, which have grossed nearly $6.7 billion at the worldwide box office, reports CelebrityNetWorth.com.
Other black comedians who have signed lucrative deals with Netflix include Dave Chappelle, who earned $60 million for three stand-up specials in 2017, and Chris Rock, who took home $40 million for his two specials in 2018.
During a recent appearance at the Comedians screening at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, Murphy stated, “You’ve got to start all over again, but there’s no way around that process; you have to go do it that way.”
Murphy got his start in the early 80s, on NBC’s Saturday Night Live before he started taking on film roles starring in 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America, as well as the stand-up smash Eddie Murphy: Raw. He hasn’t performed much stand-up since. He reemerged in the 90s, starring in fan favorites like Shrek, Dr. Dolittle, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, and Daddy Day Care and later making a huge splash in 2006’s Dreamgirls, playing the overzealous James “Thunder” Early, which earned him an Oscar nominee.
Hopefully, we get the same energy from his new content.
Folks reacted to the news with excitement on Twitter:
“HOLY. S***. Maybe the best news I’ll hear all day!! This would be incredible… #eddiemurphy” – @TheRochaSays
“HOLY HELL!!!!!! It’s happening!!!!!!” – @BillSimmons
There is another Facebook event that might take over the viral “Storm Area 51” internet craze and it involves one of the most mysterious areas in world—the Bermuda Triangle.
The rival Facebook event, which was created on July 12, has attracted thousands of people who are interested or say they’ll actually go to the spooky oceanic region, which has been responsible for many airplane and ship disappearances due to unexplainable circumstances, Fox 5 NY reported.
Anthony Dominick Carnovale, who created the event on Facebook, told Fox 5 NY that the event isn’t actually a joke gathering. Carnovale said once the concept of breaching the Bermuda Triangle reached 25,000, he decided to create a GoFundMe to raise funds for an actual party in Florida.
“Storm the Bermuda Triangle, It Can’t Swallow All of Us” GoFundMe page. (Photo Credit: Anthony Dominick Carnovale / GoFundMe)
The event, which has the catch phrase “it can’t swallow all of us,” will take place on Oct. 1 at 8:00 a.m. EDT and requires all attendees to “dress as SpongeBob SquarePants or pirates.” There will be food and drinks to buy as well. Any additional funds raised and unused will also be donated to cancer research, in memory of Carnovale’s grandfather, who passed away in 2017, Fox News noted.
“I’m contractually obligated to only use the money for the event,” Carnovale added. “If I somehow can’t, I have to give everyone their money back.”
Carnovale also created the event because he was concerned that people will actually go to the “Storm Area 51” event, even though it was made clear that it was a hoax gathering on Facebook.
“The Area 51 event is dangerous,” Carnovale explained. “I honestly just don’t want people to attend the Area 51 event because I don’t want people getting shot or arrested.”
Instead of going to the top secret military area, Carnovale said a giant party with live entertainment would be a safer option, even if no one actually tries to find missing boats and planes in the Bermuda Triangle.
“Live music, entertainment, beach party,” Carnovale added. “Why not come to the Bermuda Triangle Festival?”
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Have you ever wondered what you’d look like an old timey portrait? You know, the kind of dust-covered, golden-framed oil paintings that hang on the walls of haunted houses, eyes following you as you walk about the room? Well, now you don’t have to guess, because a very terrifying website has invented a classic portrait generator for you to use. Just upload your selfies to aiportraits.com and behold–there’s your face rendered as a piece of classic art. Totally normal, right?
AI Portraits Ars is a widget built by the researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab that transforms uploaded selfies into fine art by using an algorithm of 45,000 classical portraits. “We have trained Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) models to reproduce human portraits, with different styles and levels of abstraction,” the AI Portraits website explains. The full extent of the science used is a little hard to understand in layman’s terms, but the researchers essentially taught GAN models to generate new paintings based on classic portraits rendered in oil paint, watercolor, or ink.
Unlike previous versions of this technology, the algorithm is not painting over your face, but is instead generating brand new features from scratch. The AI then “decides” which format it will take. If you don’t like the version it comes up with, try another selfie–you’ll be amazed at the different results the site is able to come up with every time.
The website maintains that while photos are sent to the site’s servers to generate the portraits, they won’t use data from the photos for other purposes and will immediately delete them. That makes this technology a bit less scary than the Russian-owned FaceApp, which has been transforming the internet’s faces into older and younger versions of themselves at an extreme cost to privacy.
Of course, privacy concerns notwithstanding, you’ll still have to gaze into your own creepily detached eyes as they exist in AI generator form. Which is it’s own kind of scary, regardless of how impressive this tech is.
Images: AI Portrait Ars
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