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DreamWorks' Filipino-Inspired 'Forgotten Island' Puts AI on Notice: 'This Work May Not Be Used To Train AI'

DreamWorks' Filipino-inspired animated film 'Forgotten Island' features a closing-credits warning against AI training, as the film prepares for release.

International Business Times UK · Sep 23

The blink-and-you-miss-them film references in 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'

The DNA of "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" is less 16th-century Italian fairy tale than it is 20th-century Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa. Several shots in the animated sequel are directly inspired by some of those masters' most famous images. It's all part of how the "Puss" filmmakers used…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 27, 2023

Review: ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Is Purrfectly Fun

Quick, without looking, guess how long it’s been since there’s been a Shrek movie or even a Shrek-adjacent one. Over a decade seems too long for such a popular franchise, right? And yet here we are, 11 years later, welcoming back Antonio Banderas’s swashbuckling feline in “Puss in Boots: The…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 21, 2022