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After a steady streak of success over the last several weeks, which saw hits such as Obsession , Backrooms , and Toy Story 5 , the domestic box office hit a speed bump this past weekend. Toy Story 5 retained the box-office crown, but had a bigger second-weekend drop than expected. Meanwhile, the big-budget superhero movie Supergirl fell drastically short of expectations, prompting DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran to admit disappointment. The movie took the number two spot at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, grossing less than half of what the DC Universe's first installment, Superman , earned in its first weekend in 2025. Supergirl also fell short of two of the biggest box-office bombs of the DC Extended Universe and Marvel Cinematic Universe franchises, respectively.

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Atlus RPG series Persona could be getting a live-action Netflix adaptation, according to a new Variety report. The production company responsible for Stranger Things, 21 Laps, will be substantially involved, as will Story Kitchen, another production company with a focus on game-to-film adaptations like Sonic The Hedgehog, as well as forthcoming projects including Tomb Raider, It Takes Two and Vampire Survivors.

The writer and showrunner is Christopher Monfette, who has worked on a bunch of nerd stuff including the forthcoming VisionQuest (a Disney series featuring Marvel's Vision) and Star Trek: Picard. Joining the list of seven executive producers is Sega's Toru Nakahara who has also executive produced the Sonic film trilogy.

I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long for a live-action Persona to materialize. Persona 5 has been an enormous success: the core game, taking in Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal, had sold 10.46 million copies as of August 2025. It's released on three console generations since its initial launch in 2016, and spawned five spin-offs in Persona 5 Strikers, Persona 5 Tactica, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, Persona 5: The Phantom X and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. Its success has led to remakes of Persona 3 and Persona 4.

Of course, there have already been lots of Persona screen adaptations: Persona 5 has its own animation series which ran between 2018 and 2019, as did Persona 4 in 2011. A Persona 3 anime miniseries also exists. And for those who want to go way back, the wider Shin Megami Tensei series was originally a novel trilogy, and crossmedia promotion is very much in the universe's DNA.

Still, this is the first live-action Persona series, and I'm pretty skeptical about how the overwhelmingly American production crews are going to handle it. I'd be surprised if it had a Japanese cast, equally so if it took place in a Japanese locale. Adapting a series so inextricably linked to anime is also going to require some careful tonal adjustments in its move to live action. Or they could just cast Jack Black or that Parks and Recreation guy and call it a day.

More exciting is the prospect of Persona 6 , which after a long wait was finally revealed at the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month. There wasn't any gameplay footage, or screenshots, nor even a release window, but Atlus does at least intend to release it one day.

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BMW is using Figure’s new humanoid robot to help with logistics at its plant.

The robots sort components arriving at the factory and place them in trolleys.

Humanoid robots can be especially useful in monotonous roles at the plant.

Roughly two years after BMW first put humanoid robots to work at its US plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a newer version has clocked in. The machines come from American firm Figure, and the resemblance to a person runs deeper than anything Tesla has managed with Optimus . This one looks less like a prototype in costume and more like something built to share a floor with workers.

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The new robot, known as the Figure 03, will play an important role in the plant’s logistics operations. Components arriving at the site currently land in large containers and are unsorted. It will now be the task of these robots to pick up each part and sort them into a sequencing trolley.

Read: BMW’s New Humanoid Workers Never Take A Break Or Get Paid

These trolleys will then be taken to a specified collection point for further transport. These parts will then be handed over to an automated tugger train or a Smart Transport Robot, which will shift them to the production line, where human workers will use them to assemble several new BMW models.

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The Figure 03 robots play a different role than the old Figure 02 bots used at the site. Through an 11-month pilot program, those old humanoids worked in the body shop, inserting sheet-metal parts for the welding process, helping to build more than 30,000 X3s over a ten-month period.

Helping Workers, Not Replacing Them

“Plant Spartanburg is the birthplace of humanoid robotics in BMW Manufacturing’s operational day-to-day activities,” Ulrich Wieland, vice president of production control and logistics at BMW Manufacturing, said. “Having already successfully completed a pilot with Figure 02 in our body shop, we are now looking forward to deploying Figure 03 for a sequencing use case in logistics.”

BMW refers to these humanoid robots as a “value-adding complement to existing automation” at its plant, which already uses AI to develop intricate virtual 3D simulations and a so-called ‘virtual factory’ to continually refine processes. BMW says robots like these are especially important for “monotonous, ergonomically demanding, or safety-critical activities,” and says it wants to “protect and most effectively utilize employees,” rather than replacing all of them with robots.

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