The latest season of Netflix's The Witcher has landed - with one big difference. Former lead actor Henry Cavill has been replaced as main character Geralt of Rivia by Liam Hemsworth. The Australian has stepped in for the final two seasons of the fantasy show, based on a popular series of novels and video games. Previously, British actor Cavill had portrayed the title character, a monster hunter with supernatural abilities known as the White Wolf. When he announced he was passing the torch to Hemsworth in October 2022, describing him as a fantastic actor, not all fans agreed.

As an actor, Doug Cockle is no stranger to unsettling workplaces. From battling Nazis in Spielberg's Band of Brothers to rubbing shoulders with Christian Bale in dragon romp Reign of Fire, disappearing into a role on set – whatever the set may be – has become second nature. Yet when he landed his first video game role in 2001, Cockle found himself suddenly standing completely alone in a vocal booth. "It is bizarre," he says. "You just have to be in the character in that moment in that world, in your brain. On stage and screen, you have other actors, you have props, costumes … all these things that are helping you do this thing called'acting'. Cockle got into video game work while filling in his Hollywood downtime by contributing additional voices to PS2 games such as Timesplitters 2. Inadvertently he was laying the foundations for acting in this fledgling medium. He has now appeared in more than 45 video games, including last year's megahits Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2, though he is best known for voicing the gravelly Witcher, Geralt of Rivia. "There weren't a lot of voices in video games when I started out,' Cockle recalls.

Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Sorry to break to everyone, but Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie aren't starring in a new James Bond film. In fact, it's pretty easy to fake things to a degree that the untrained eye can't even tell the difference. While there are certainly advantages to artificial intelligence, the fact it can be used as a tool to manipulate and spread misinformation is certainly concerning. That also now applies to movies. MARGOT ROBBIE SAYS ACTING CAREER ALMOST ENDED AFTER'THE WOLF OF WALL STREET' The popular YouTube page KH Studio is known for creating fake/concept trailers for upcoming movies, and it uses AI technology to get the job done.

Max Kalmykov is the VP of Media and Entertainment at DataArt. Broadcasters and movie studios alike are starting to explore the huge potential of modern technologies to bring a new generation of filmed entertainment to our TV sets and cinemas. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are the buzzwords that excite video executives with promises of revolutionary new abilities for video creation and editing. Deep learning, in particular, is the new frontier for the video industry, allowing video professional to do things automatically that would have taken weeks of work in the past, as well as some things that wouldn't have been possible at all. How is deep learning different from other machine learning algorithms?

When 2017 superhero flick Justice League went through $25 million worth of "extensive reshoots," there was one particularly unexpected hurdle: Henry Cavill's mustache. The actor, who plays Superman in the DC universe, had grown the soup strainer for his role in Mission: Impossible 6. But when reshoots for Justice League came around, he couldn't just shave the thing off, so it had to be digitally edited out. But can cheap AI do better? In the video above, one internet user shows how the latest machine learning-powered image manipulation techniques handle the task of facial topiary.

Visit https://www.deepfakes.club to learn how you can start using these techniques with free software. The deepfakes algorithm is not just for face-swapping but can produce visual effects that would normally be quite costly to implement. This demo showcases the mustache-removal abilities of a trained neural network. Mustachegate involved actor Henry Cavill sporting a mustache during reshoots as Superman in the film Justice League. A competing studio would not allow him to shave his mustache.