Brad Pitt remains Hollywood royalty, so it’s still a big deal whenever he signs on for a project.
Per Deadline, Pitt and Conclave director Edward Berger will collaborate on The Riders, a film adaptation of Tim Winton’s 1994 novel. David Kajganich, the screenwriter of Bones and All, will pen the script. Once Pitt committed to starring in and producing the movie, it led to a competitive bidding war between studios that A24 ultimately won.
The Riders follows Fred Scully (Pitt), a man who moves to Ireland from Australia with his wife, Jennifer, and young daughter, Billie. After renovating the house alone, Scully goes to the airport to pick up his wife and daughter, but only Billie arrives. With no explanation for her disappearance, Scully and Bille traverse Europe looking for Jennifer.
Production is expected to begin in early 2026, with shoots planned in multiple European locations. Producers include Pitt, Kajganich, Berger, Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Jeremy Kleiner, and Dede Gardner.
Pitt is about to embark on a busy summer that starts with the promotional tour for F1, the anticipated Formula One racing movie from Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski. Pitt plays a retired driver who comes out of retirement to join the Apex Grand Prix team and mentor their hotshot rookie, Joshua “Noah” Pearce (Damson Idris). F1 opens in theaters on June 27.
After F1, Pitt will reprise the role of Cliff Booth for The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth. David Fincher will direct for Netflix from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino. Pitt won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Booth in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood. Production is expected to begin sometime this summer. Leonardo DiCaprio’s involvement remains unresolved, as the One Battle After Another star negotiates his rate with Netflix.
Berger is fresh off the Oscar-winning papal thriller, Conclave, which grossed over $116 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. Berger’s next movie, The Ballad of a Small Player with Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton, will likely premiere at a fall festival before receiving a release date later this year.
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.