Artificial intelligence has reimagined movie posters of popular horror films just in time for Halloween - and the results are teeming with blood, gore and terror. A graphic design team inputted key words like mask, black cloak and blood to inspire the AI-powered app Wonder that brought the nightmares to life. The popular 1996 slasher film Scream features a woman with blue eyes and covering her mouth on its movie poster, but the AI created a hooded figure with a mask that is dripping in blood that is'arguably even more terrifying than the original.' The visuals were created using an app that asks users to describe what they want to see in the digital artwork, which has become a new medium recently. A graphic design team inputted key words like mask, black cloak and blood to inspire the AI-powered app Wonder that brought the nightmares to life.

A recent New York Times article highlighted a growing Hollywood industry trend -- if a film does poorly at the box office, blame Rotten Tomatoes. The website, which aggregates movie reviews and assigns a percentage score with anything 60 or above labeled "Fresh" and anything scoring lower labeled "Rotten," is catching a lot of flack for disrupting ticket sales and tanking films. But Yves Bergquist, the director of the Data & Analytics Project at USC's Entertainment Technology Center decided to throw some data at the issue and see if those claims hold up. From his findings, they do not. We should note that this work hasn't been published in a journal and hasn't been subject to peer review, but this side project of Bergquist's seems to show that there's very little connection -- if any -- between film success and Rotten Tomatoes scores.

Who murdered Transformers: The Last Knight? The fifth movie in the series opened last weekend to numbers that weren't simply lower than expected--they amounted to the worst opening weekend haul of the entire franchise. Apparently, four visually nonsensical films about giant robots hitting each other had been plenty for moviegoers. This being a blame-loving industry, though, the search began for exactly who was responsible for this Floptimus Prime. Don't blame the actors; the fault lies not within the stars.