If you wait long enough, Hollywood will reboot or release a sequel to every move you’ve ever loved—especially if it is a genre film. Just give it time. Currently, Hollywood is fixed on the 80s, but don’t worry, 90s kids, your childhood will be mined soon as well. Children of the new century, your day is coming soon enough.
If a movie is at all successful, it will be rebooted. Red Dawn, The Black Hole, Excalibur, Dune, Fright Night, Total Recall, The Thing, Mad Max, Robocop–the list goes on and on and on–are all being developed (or perhaps redeveloped) or have already entered production, and you can expect more in the future.
This August the reboot wheel stops on an old classic, Conan the Barbarian. The original movie was one of the launching pads for Arnold Schwarzenegger and is considered a classic by many. It also spawned a sequel that is best never mentioned again.
The new remake, sans Ah’nold, stars Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Stargate Atlantis), Rachel Nichols (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Criminal Minds) and Stephen Lang (Avatar, The Men Who Stare at Goats). Conan will be released in 3D, because why not, and it will be directed by a guy very familiar with rebooting beloved franchises, Marcus Nispel (Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
When a young Conan’s father (Ron Perlman) is murdered by raiders who also destroy his village, it sets the boy on a path that will lead him towards bloody revenge years later. And honestly, what else can you do with a name like “Conan?” Would you buy vegetables from a guy named Conan? Probably not. It is the name of a barbarian warrior that is not to be trifled with (and a late night talk show host, but that is beside the point).
Lionsgate has released a teaser for the movie a few months back, but it did not feature any real images from the film, so it was difficult to imagine how the movie would look. In the trailer below, we have our first real look at the world of Hyboria, as well as what to expect from Conan the Barbarian, which hits theaters on August 19.
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.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
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?