There’s no doubt Stranger Things has an awesome storyline, but there’s no doubt the absolutely magical look and feel of Netflix’s latest blockbuster series is what seems to have people hooked. The retro sensibility channeling the Spielberg and King is so entrancing, in fact, that someone even put up an entire website that lets you write script in the same design as the show’s ultra-cool logo.
But this old-school callback to vintage cool isn’t something new. In fact, it’s seen a massive push in the past several years by especially in the movie poster scene. We’ve created a gallery of our 10 favorite retro-style movie posters and their artists. Some of these are new, some old, but all of them will look awesome on your wall. Check them out — and mind your checking account, most of them are only available for a pretty penny on eBay.
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?