Digital minister Taro Kono on Tuesday vowed to dismiss Japan’s laws that have entrenched floppy disks and CD-ROMs in the nation’s systems. In a tweet from his English Twitter account, Kono said he was declaring “war” on floppy disks as part of its digital transformation and enabling citizens to submit data online. Kono explained there were about 1,900 articles in Japan’s laws that require businesses to submit forms to the government on floppy disk....

Jennifer Aniston’s portrayal as Rachel Green in Friends marked the actress’ breakout role, but she continued to build on an illustrious career once the series ended. Aniston portrayed Rachel for a decade until the NBC sitcom came to an end in 2004. Prior to reaching superstardom through the hit series, Aniston appeared in the 1993 horror, Leprechaun, and TV series such as Molloy, The Edge, and Muddling Through. After a handful of failed projects, Aniston was cast in Friends, a role that would change her life forever....

Prolific Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has spoken about the one movie role that she was ‘devastated’ not to get, and it’s certainly not the choice you might expect from the star of the edgy Red Sparrow or The Hunger Games franchise. Speaking in a recent interview, she referred to some of her auditions during the earlier part of her career and a couple of parts that really burned when she missed out on them....

The election of former reality television personality Donald Trump to the position of United States President came as quite a surprise to his opponents and many in the international media, in ways that will likely be felt for some time. Initially regarded by many (even those in his own party) as a novelty candidate, the idea of the eccentric real-estate tycoon as a viable politician had been the subject of satirical jokes in comic strips like Doonesbury and episodes of The Simpsons decades ago....

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum apologizes with an official statement for his comments in a recent interview where he tried to explain why none of the production house’s horror movies are directed by women; the original comments garnered a great deal of criticism on social media. While casual moviegoers may be mostly familiar with Blumhouse Productions, Blum may be an unrecognizable name to those outside the horror genre. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Blum worked under Harvey Weinstein at Warner Brothers before embarking on a career as a feature film producer....

Jason Blum has revealed his desire for each installment of the Happy Death Day franchise to differ in genre. Founded by Blum, Blumhouse Productions has since unleashed a wide range of popular franchises, including Paranormal Activity, The Purge, and the recent Halloween sequel from David Gordon Green. They’ve also produced three Oscar-recognized standalone films, with Whiplash, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and, most recently, BlacKkKlansman. Directed by Christopher Landon (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) and written by Scott Lobdell, Happy Death Day hit theaters back in 2017....

James Gunn explains why there’s no need for Jared Leto’s Joker to appear in The Suicide Squad. Production is already in full swing for the Warner Bros. and DC movie centered on some of the brand’s most memorable villains. So far, fans have been treated with several set images revealing some of the actors in costume, as well as Idris Elba and John Cena’s mysterious characters in prison garb. The list of actors appearing in The Suicide Squad was already confirmed prior to the beginning of shooting, and it’s a mix of new and familiar faces to the DCEU sub-franchise....

Those two words are likely to get people’s ears up. The qualifier is that the security hole is with unsecured jailbroken iPhones that have enabled SSH. The equivalent in the computer world would be telling everyone to set their root passwords to “alpine” and enable root access. Then put your computer on the Internet without a firewall and leave it until someone logs in. If you jailbreak your iPhone and don’t change your password, it is the equivalent to physically giving it to a malicious hacker....

UISettings, first third-party widget for the iOS 5 Notification Center Well, that didn’t take too long. The jailbreak community is obviously pleased with the new Notification Center in iOS 5 and its ability to run little web programs called widgets. Apple ships two-built in widgets, Weather and Stocks, that can be configured in Settings > Notifications and a recent proof-of-concept has taught us that developing widgets for the notification screen is technically feasible, even with the latest software development kit not officially endorsing widgets....

Director James Gunn explains why Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is still without a release date. Gunn helped introduce the Guardians of the Galaxy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2014 and also directed the sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, in 2017. Despite both films getting generally positive reviews, as well as earning a lot of money at the box office, the series has yet to get a third film....

Director James Wan has officially weighed in on the announced Aquaman spinoff based on the sea-dwelling creatures in the film known as the Trench. Following Aquaman’s success, The Trench will no doubt be far more horrific than super. During their quest to find the King’s Trident in Aquaman, Arthur (Jason Momoa) and Mera (Amber Heard) are in the middle of the ocean when their ship is attacked by an army of grotesque sea creatures....

Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday director Adam Marcus has confirmed grizzled bounty hunter Creighton Duke survived his brutal encounter with Jason. Friday The 13th is a franchise that did very well for Paramount throughout the 1980s. The movies were cheap to produce, featured an easy to follow formula and yielded tidy profits. Audiences grew bored with the series around the time of 1989’s Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, which was the lowest-grossing entry up to that point....

James Gunn is the big winner from Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 fiasco. Last summer, around the time of San Diego Comic-Con, Gunn became the target of a politically-motivated attack when some of his old comments and tweets went viral. Gunn had started out working for bad taste film studio Troma, and at the time he’d used off-color and offensive humor both in his work and online. He’d long since moved on from that, and had even publicly reflected on the fact he regretted his old comments on social media, but they were still out there and proved to be a potent weapon against him....

Jason Momoa loses his hair and muscles in a hilarious Super Bowl advertisement. While the Super Bowl is one of the grandest sporting events of the year, it’s also a great opportunity for companies to create memorable commercials featuring stars. There’s no bigger star than Momoa, who is best known to audiences as Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, the eponymous lead in DC’s Aquaman, and Justice League, among other TV and movie roles....

Millionaire philanthropist Jeff Prescott recently slammed his ex-girlfriend, Kate Plus Date star Kate Gosselin, for denying that they were ever in a serious relationship. The TV star previously claimed the two never dated while speaking to her followers on Instagram Stories. Kate originally appeared in the Discovery Health show Jon & Kate Plus 8, which ran from 2007 to 2017 and followed the lives of Jon and Kate and their eight children, which included a set of sextuplets and a set of twins....

Reboots are all the rage in Hollywood lately. Despite the irritation of countless fans, major studios have shown no signs of slowing down their remake-heavy production slates. The most recent aspect of this trend to draw a particularly virulent brand of backlash is the all-female remake or offshoot of primarily male-led films. Aside from Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters redux, remakes of buddy cop-flick 21 Jump Street and crime thriller Ocean’s 11 are in the works....

Debate has long raged about the ending of James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic. On one side are the folks who say Rose basically let Jack die by not allowing him to climb onto the door she used as a raft after the pair escaped the sinking ship. On the other side are those who say Rose couldn’t let Jack climb onto the door with her either because there wasn’t enough room, or because the door would not have remained buoyant with both of them on top....

Jawbone announced this evening that it finally expects to begin fulfilling pre-orders of its Up3 fitness tracker on April 20th. The company expects all pre-orders to ship no later than mid-May. After pre-orders have been fulfilled, Jawbone will begin shipping new orders of the Up3. Pre-orders will ship in the order they were received. Jawbone blamed the delay of the Up3 on issues relating to the water resistance feature of the device....

Jennifer Connelly is starring in next summer’s Top Gun: Maverick, and here’s everything we know about her role so far. This Top Gun sequel that has been in the works for years and years - and it’s still a hugely anticipated film, even among amidst the plethora of upcoming superhero movies and sequels on the way. Top Gun stars Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer are set to reprise their respective roles as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in Top Gun: Maverick....

Is Lashana Lynch playing the new 007 replacement in Bond 25? Daniel Craig will return as James Bond in the next installment of the franchise, but there’s reason to believe that Lynch has been cast as the person who has replaced him in MI6 when the film kicks off. Bond 25, which is being directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga after Danny Boyle left the project, has a script from Scott Z....