Summer may be winding down, but Amazon’s streaming service is still cranking out the streaming hits. Prime Video‘s August 2023 programming slate offers a diverse slate of genres: sci-fi movies, comedies, romance films, dramas, stand-up specials, and a 2023 movie about an animal all loaded up on drugs.
The list of new arrivals throughout the month features quite a few noteworthy additions to the Prime Video library, including the return of Thursday Night Football, the debut of the rom-com Red, White & Royal Blue, the premiere of Harlan Coben’s new series Shelter, and library titles like Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Cocaine Bear, and Bones and All.
We’ve provided the full list of everything new on Amazon Prime Video in August 2023 below.
Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Hollywood: The Great Stars (1963)
Missing In Action II: The Beginning (1985)
Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine (2015)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead (1995)
Walking Tall: The Payback (2007)
Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey (2023)
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
*Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity (2023)
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023)
Harlan Coben’s Shelter (2023)
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?