The O.J. Simpson murder trial seems to be the ratings gift that keeps on giving, so it is not surprising that FX’s true crime anthology series, American Crime Story, has been snatched up by Netflix. The streamer announced today that it has reached an agreement with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution to become the exclusive global streaming home of the series.
Thanks to the new deal, the first installment, The People v. O.J. Simpson, will be available globally, aside from in Canada, starting in 2017. Netflix seems to have faith in the future of the anthology as well; subsequent seasons will hit the streaming service once their broadcast window pass.
There’s reason to have high expectations for American Crime Story. Its 10-episode first season set the bar high by becoming cable’s most-watched new series of 2016. However, with more networks getting in on the true crime craze, it may be difficult for FX to maintain its momentum. Trials as well-known and sensational as O.J. Simpson’s don’t come around every day. There’s a reason it was called “the trial of the century,” after all.
American Crime Story season 2 does look promising, though. When the next installment premieres on FX in 2017, it will center on Hurricane Katrina and the circumstances surrounding the terrible disaster. The focus is much broader than the first installment, so it will be interesting to see how the team approaches it.
Season 1 dramatized the controversial O.J. Simpson murder case, bringing together an impressive cast, including actors Cuba Gooding Jr., Sarah Paulson, John Travolta, David Schwimmer, Courtney B. Vance, Sterling K. Brown, Nathan Lane, Kenneth Choi, Christian Clemenson, and Bruce Greenwood. Its executive producers aren’t too shabby, either: Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski and Brad Falchuk. Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions produced.
American Crime Story season 1 arrives on Netflix in 2017.
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.
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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?