There are rules and consequences in the latest trailer for From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. For Ana de Armas’ Eve Macarro, one of those consequences is a showdown with Keanu Reeves’ John Wick.
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve is a ballerina who trains to be an assassin and learns the traditions of the Ruska Roma criminal organization. Eve is on the hunt for the assassins who killed her family. Eve’s journey brings her to the Continental Hotel in New York, where she seeks help from Winston Scott (Ian McShane). “Are you prepared to be cast out again?” Winston asks Eve, to which she emphatically replies, “Yes.”
The action-packed trailer follows Eve as she shoots, fights, and kills her way up the ladder. Before she can exact her revenge, the Baba Yaga himself stands in her way. When John Wick gives Eve the choice to leave, she fires a gun in retaliation, setting off an explosive one-on-one battle between the two assassins.
Reprising their roles from previous John Wick installments are Anjelica Huston as the Director and the late Lance Reddick as Charon. Gabriel Byrne, Norman Reedus, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, and David Castañeda also star.
Len Wiseman directs Ballerina from a screenplay by Shay Hatten. Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, and Chad Stahelski are Ballerina’s producers. Stahelski was hired to oversee reshoots on Ballerina and reportedly shot an entirely different movie.
Ballerina is the first spinoff movie of the John Wick franchise. The Continental: From the World of John Wick was released on Peacock in September 2023 and explored the origins of Winston Scott.
Ballerina opens in theaters on June 6, 2025.
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?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.