NoneMoana: Dwayne Johnson’s Live-Action Maui Appears in Set Photos By The first of the give fans a glimpse at . An announcement regarding the live-action version of Moana was made in April 2023. However, no release window for the movie has been confirmed yet. Apart from Johnson as Maui, the demigod, has been cast as Moana. First look at Dwayne Johnson’s Maui revealed in new Moana set photos Dwayne Johnson’s first look as his Moana character, Maui, from the set of the live-action movie was shared online by scooper Matt Desmond. In the set photos posted on , Johnson can be seen donning a skirt made of green leaves and a black hair wig, while showing off his tattooed body. In one of the photos, Johnson is also seen wearing a necklace made out of whale teeth. Additionally, he holds Maui’s signature weapon in his hands. Check out the set photos from the Moana live-action set below: The first set photos of The Rock playing Maui in the live Moana movie! ?: Since the release of these set photos, fans across social media have been questioning whether the actor is wearing a body suit. However, nothing has been confirmed regarding that from the actor. Johnson also voices Maui in the animated movie Moana, whose sequel is coming to theaters on November 27, 2024. Talking about playing Maui in the live-action, Dwayne Johnson shared an in 2023. He wrote, “Deeply humbled to announce we’re bringing the beautiful story of MOANA to the live-action big screen!” The Red One actor was further excited to address how Moana connects with him. He stated that the story is one related to his “culture, and this story is emblematic of our people’s grace.” The actor further labeled playing Maui in live-action as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” Moana was highly appreciated by critics and audiences and made a total of $643 million, as per . Ishita Verma is an SEO contributing writer for ComingSoon. She is passionate about delivering authentic content and holds experience in SEO content writing. Apart from her quest to ensure her content is promising, Ishita is an avid Kdrama and anime watcher. Ishita is a bibliophile and also pursues gaming as one of her favorite pastimes. Share articleCONX Corp. Announces Acquisition of Red Technologies SAS
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PALO ALTO, Calif. , Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- AKOOL, Inc., the global leader in generative AI video, is excited to announce its strategic partnership with Immerso AI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eros Digital, the largest producer and distributor of Bollywood content worldwide. This partnership aims to transform the digital immersion and video markets through cutting-edge AI technologies, merging Immerso AI's extensive digital IP content libraries with AKOOL's generative AI expertise. With a vast library of over 12,000 digital titles, Eros Digital brings invaluable content assets to the collaboration. Together, the alliance will leverage this repository to deliver groundbreaking AI-driven experiences for the video and digital business and consumer markets. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, AKOOL specializes in generative AI for visual applications, renowned for its Faceswap and Avatar technologies that lead innovation in the field. The partnership will focus on developing unique AI applications, including personalized movie recommendations, AI-generated visual effects tailored for Bollywood films, and automated editing tools for content creators. Additionally, AKOOL will fine-tune AI models to meet the specific needs of the Bollywood market, enhancing content delivery and audience engagement. Jiajun Lu , CEO of AKOOL, shared, "Partnering with Immerso AI and Eros Digital is a significant milestone. Their vast media assets and market presence perfectly complement our advanced AI technology. Together, we'll create innovative solutions to revolutionize content creation and consumption. By leveraging Eros Digital's extensive video library, we can develop AI-tuned models that redefine Bollywood's digital landscape." Under the agreement, Immerso AI will lead regional business development and handle operations, while AKOOL will focus on technical development and proprietary AI innovations. Both companies will share rights to jointly developed intellectual property, fostering a collaborative approach to commercialization. For more information about AKOOL and its innovative AI solutions, visit www.akool.com . About AKOOL, Inc.: AKOOL is a leading AI technology company based in Palo Alto, CA , specializing in generative AI for visual applications. The company develops state-of-the-art AI solutions to drive innovation in video and digital immersion markets. View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akool-announces-strategic-bollywood-partnership-to-revolutionize-ai-in-digital-immersion-and-video-markets-302315726.html SOURCE AKOOL
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Was Donald Trump's 'Big Win' Just A Big Lie? The Answer Will Shock YouLudhiana: The city continues to experience sunny conditions, with meteorological data indicating above-normal maximum temperatures during the initial days of the month. Records show higher daytime temperatures in the first five days of December compared to the corresponding period last year. A meteorological official in Chandigarh reported that while the typical maximum temperature for early December ranges between 23 and 24 degrees, current readings are approximately 2 to 3 degrees above normal. The official noted that during the same period last year, daytime temperatures generally remained slightly below normal values. Current meteorological data shows daytime temperatures exceeding 25 degrees throughout the first five days of December. On December 3, the highest temperature reached 26.9 degrees Celsius, marking the peak for this period. Records indicate that night-time temperatures also remained above the normal value of approximately 7.5 degrees Celsius throughout these five days. The warmest night registered 13.9°C on December 3, while the coolest night recorded 8°C on Dec 5. Comparatively, during the first five days of December last year, daytime temperatures stayed below 23 degrees on most occasions, peaking at 23.5 degrees on December 2 and dropping to 22.5 degrees on December 4. Night-time temperatures, however, exceeded normal values throughout, with the highest reading of 11.8 degrees Celsius on December 2. We also published the following articles recently Ahmedabad records minimum temperature of 15.4C Ahmedabad experienced a slightly warmer than usual Sunday, with a minimum temperature of 15.4C and a maximum of 29C, according to the IMD. While Monday is predicted to remain around 16C, temperatures are expected to rise by 2-3C over the next few days. Elsewhere in the state, Naliya in Kutch recorded the state's lowest minimum at 12. Warm night brings relief as minimum temp rises by four degree Indore experienced a welcome temperature rise, reaching 29.6C on Tuesday, a four-degree jump in two days. This warmer trend is expected to continue until around December 15th. While other parts of Madhya Pradesh, like Gwalior and Ujjain, brace for colder temperatures due to snowfall in the mountains and northern winds, Indore is predicted to remain relatively warm. Night temp rises six degrees in 48 hours, winter chill likely after Dec 15 Indore experienced a significant temperature jump, with the minimum rising six degrees in 48 hours to 18.4C. Cloudy skies prevailed, and winds picked up considerably. While a western disturbance may bring mountain snowfall, Indore's warmer weather is expected to persist until the third week of December, when colder temperatures are anticipated. Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India . Don't miss daily games like Crossword , Sudoku , and Mini Crossword .
REBELDOGS Introduces First Movie-Crypto Collaboration, Linking Cinema and Support for Dog SheltersI'm A Celebrity viewers have said that one campmate 'needed that' after she secured herself immunity with an impressive 'winning strategy'. Over the past two days, a twist to the usual format of the ITV show has seen the celebrities battling it out for the coveted 'Ticket to Cyclone', as well as immunity from the next two public votes. At the start of Thursday's show (December 5), Ant and Dec entered camp to reveal the four finalists for ‘Ticket to Cyclone’ were Danny, Maura, Oti and Coleen. As they headed off to face the final challenge, which would determine the winner of the golden ticket to Cyclone, it was all to play for. Back at the Arcade of Agony once again, Danny, Maura, Oti and Coleen greeted Ant and Dec and got ready for ‘Battle Blocks’. READ MORE: I'm A Celebrity Danny Jones' 'estranged' relationship with father as he 'finds dad' in Barry McGuigan With a lot at stake, Ant and Dec then explained what they’d be facing in the challenge. Each celebrity was placed inside one of four game play areas. Within each of these areas were ten battle blocks, they needed to find all ten and remove them, placing them into a grid in front of them to make a perfect rectangle. The first to fit all of their battle blocks into the grid in front of them and run and press the golden buzzer would be the winner of the Ticket to Cyclone. Ready and in place for the grand final for the ticket to Cyclone, Oti, Maura, Danny and Coleen sprang into action at the sound of the klaxon. Observing the different tactics at play, Ant remarked: “There’s different ways of doing it here.” Covered in jungle slime and fish guts, and having to put their hands into different hell holes filled with critters to find all ten battle blocks, Maura screamed, as Danny laughed his way through. Meanwhile, Oti and Coleen both kept their game faces on. Oti had a different strategy to the rest, putting her civil engineering degree to good use, with her tactic to lay all ten blocks out on the floor and fit them like a puzzle to determine which way round they would successfully fit in the grid. Ant and Dec watched on saying: “That’s an interesting strategy, putting it on the floor first, even with stuff dropping down." With tension building, Oti picked her blocks up off the floor, as Dec questioned: “She’s getting them off the floor, straight in. Do you think she’s done it?”. Coleen, Danny and Oti were then neck and neck, all filling up their grids at a fast pace, whilst Maura hadn’t yet started putting blocks into the grid in front of her. Suddenly Oti burst out of her game play area and ran to press the golden buzzer, as golden confetti filled the air and she jumped up and down celebrating. Oti had the 'winning strategy' (Image: YouTube) Dec remarked: “Oti! That was incredible!” Ant added: “Absolutely brilliant.” Telling them all about her tactic to lay out the blocks on the floor, her fellow celebrities clapped and congratulated her, whilst Ant said: “Work smart, not harder!” The moment then came for Dec to hand Oti the coveted golden ticket to Cyclone, granting her immunity for the next two vote offs, and a guaranteed place in the Celebrity Cyclone. A very happy Oti grinned and said: “It feels amazing, I’ve got to wash my underwear more now!”. And fans of the ITV show took to X to praise Oti's strategy, saying that she 'needed that' win to save her from the public vote. @geordiegalg wrote: "Absolutely brilliant strategy from Oti! Well done." @AAngels05 said: "Oti building the Tetris on the floor is a winning strategy yknow," as @lloydallred wrote: "OTI IS THE WINNER TEARS IN THE NATIONS EYES #imacelebrity2024 #imaceleb." @sagalhatesyou said: "oti ate again. she needed that knowing how the british public is. #ImACeleb," as @languageloves wrote: "OTI HAS A TICKET TO THE CYCLONE, SHE IS OFFICIALLY A FINALIST #ImACeleb." @Ammyh1993 added: "Out of all of them I’m glad it was oti, Danny is guaranteed a place in the final anyway because of people like me who grew up in love with him #imaceleb." @IrishLaurinah echoed: "I think oti needs it most and I want her in the cyclone with Maura grace and rev #ImACeleb."
An orphaned well sits in a field near Red Deer, Alta., on May 24, 2023. GEOFF ROBINS/Getty Images The oil and gas sector in Alberta spent close to $770-million to clean up inactive wells in 2023, but the industry is not doing anywhere near enough to address the full scale of environmental liabilities around the province, according to one expert. Combined with the cash from the government’s site-rehabilitation program and the industry-funded Orphan Well Association, spending on cleaning up inactive wells surpassed $1-billion in 2023. But that massive outlay barely made a dent, reducing the number of inactive wells in the province by only about 5 per cent, according to the Alberta Energy Regulator ’s annual liability monitoring report released Thursday. The oil and gas sector in Alberta is required to spend a certain amount each year on cleaning up inactive wells and pipelines. Last year, the AER set that number at $700-million. But the scale of environmental liabilities in the province dwarfs the spending quota set by the AER, says Martin Olszynski, an associate professor and Chair in Energy, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. The AER has attached a $33.3-billion price tag to the cost of cleaning up the province’s hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells, but Prof. Olszynski believes that number is off by a huge margin. Indeed, internal AER documents suggest the province’s environmental liability could be nearly triple the estimate the agency announced earlier this year. Those documents pegged the total cost of well cleanup to be about $88-billion. Prof. Olszynski said the industry isn’t spending enough to tackle the problem, and would like the AER to force the sector’s hand. “The point is the AER has no plan to get that money for those liabilities from profitable companies,” Prof. Olszynski said. He pointed to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., which has about 20,000 of Alberta’s 80,000 inactive wells. The company is making “making money hand over fist” right now, he said, “but when are you ever going to be able to start chipping away at that massive liability they have?” Prof. Olszynski would instead like to see the AER require that a company put enough money aside to cover reclamation costs when it is issued a well licence. And he would like the regulator to institute a time limit on how long companies have to clean up a well once it is no longer active. “It can’t just be applied against when your company is distressed, because that’s just backwards. That’s counterproductive. You’re just going to spiral out those companies into more distress, and then they’re not paying their taxes or not paying their vendors, and it becomes essentially a zero-sum game between unpaid vendors, service providers, municipalities and landowners,” he said. “This isn’t rocket science.” While the vast majority of oil and gas companies met spending requirements in 2023 set by the AER, 54 of them didn’t. Mostly smaller companies, they represented a mere $5-million in missed quotas. Anita Lewis, the regulator’s senior adviser of liability management, said companies that don’t meet their cleanup obligations and other regulatory requirements are monitored through a licensee management program. It will take compliance action that can include anything from a warning letter to having the Orphan Well Association step in and take over management of their sites. However, she said the AER doesn’t share data on how many of the small companies that are failing to meet their cleanup quotas are also deemed at high risk of struggling to meet their financial obligations. Such companies have a total of about $2-billion of environmental liabilities on their books. The remainder is held by companies deemed to have low or medium financial risks. Editor’s note: This article previously included a headline that incorrectly referred to orphan wells. This version has been updated to refer to inactive wells.
Micron shares fall 15% in extended trade after sluggish PC, phone demand hurts forecastTrelleborg’s Marine and Infrastructure operation has announced it is strengthening its presence in India through the construction of a new manufacturing facility near Ahmedabad, India. The state-of-the-art facility will produce Trelleborg’s full range of marine and infrastructure products and will be located close to the company’s existing global engineering center, enabling closer collaboration with key regional customers. “We are excited about the opportunities this new facility presents,” said Richard Hepworth, Business Unit President of Trelleborg Marine and Infrastructure. “By establishing a local manufacturing presence in India, we are not only positioning ourselves to better serve our customers but also aligning with the country’s economic growth trajectory.” The investment targets India’s expanding markets, particularly in port infrastructure, energy facilities and water networks. This expansion marks a significant step in Trelleborg’s global growth strategy, reinforcing its position as a leading provider of engineered polymer and technology solutions for marine, infrastructure, and energy projects worldwide. Source: Trelleborg