It has been a big summer filled with huge hits and major flops, and it is only June. And still on the docket, one of the biggest releases of the year is due next month when Captain America jumps to the big screen to beat on some Ratzis with his shield and super soldier infused fists. And with just under a month to go before the release of Marvel’s final pre-Avengers outing—and arguably the most important solo movie—the advertising blitz (pun intended) has begun.
The trailer below gives a bit more of a look at the story for Captain America. You have the young and scrawny Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteer for a program to make him more of a soldier. After the successful experiment, he becomes the prime weapon in the fight against Hydra, the Nazis’ scientific and terror group led by the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving). Along the way, Cap puts foot to ass in the name of truth, justice and apple pie.
Look for Captain America: The First Avenger in theaters on July 22.
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?