Mario Is Money, Ed Sheeran Lawsuit, and the Music Industry Tackle AI

From money-making Mario to music producer AI, here’s your entertainment headlines.

weekend box office

Effective hype ahead of launch super mario bros movie, but after its third week in theaters, the film continues to impress. The Chris Pratt-led film garnered enough in its opening weekend to become the highest-grossing domestic debut of the year. $204.6 million, but that has now more than doubled. In North America, the film grossed $434.33 million. Meanwhile, it grossed $871 million worldwide.

No other film challenged for the top spot last weekend, but horror flicks took second place evil death rises. It had a solid breakout weekend in the US, taking in $23.5 million. covenant The film starring Jake Gyllenhaal made the top three with just $6.28 million.

let’s try it out

The heir to the co-writer of the iconic 1974 song Marvin Gaye, let’s continueLegal claim against Ed Sheeran and his 2014 hit is advancing speak your mind out loud.

Sheeran’s lawyers said the structural similarities between the two songs prove that most popular music has the same foundation.

“The two songs share a similar and unprotected version of the chord progression that is freely available to all songwriters,” his team said in the filing.

In a previous fight over Marvin Gaye’s intellectual property, the court found that the 2013 blurred linesperformed by Pharrell Robin Thicke and TI, using elements from Gaye’s 1977 song must give up.

Musicians and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence technology is advancing faster than ever, and it has some fans and detractors in the music industry. Artist Grimes (a former partner of AI proponent Elon Musk) is one of those who has said she is willing to allow the technology to use her voice to create new music.

The announcement came in response to an article about a recently popular AI-produced song featuring a fake Drake and a fake Weeknd.

Drake himself may not be the biggest fan of the technology.