Cristin Milioti was one of the breakout stars of The Penguin from basically the second the show started airing. Now that the season is over, there’s been plenty of speculation about how the show might sync up with the broader universe of The Batman. At the end of The Penguin, Milioti receives a letter from her half-sister Selina Kyle, who was played by Kravitz in the 2022 film.
In speaking with Deadline at the Independent Spirit Awards, Milioti said that she’s excited by the opportunity to work with Kravitz in this universe.“I would love that. I love her and I think we could really get into some real shit,” she said. “I think we would have a great time.”
Cristin Milioti’s thoughts on Sofia Falcone teaming with Selina Kyle, played by Zoë Kravitz, in ‘The Batman Part II’ : “I think we could really get into some real shit” | #IndieSpirits pic.twitter.com/HrPWdO3OqH
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She added that she’d also be excited to work with Robert Pattinson, who took on the role of the caped crusader in the film.
Milioti played Sofia Falcone in the series, a serial killer who poses a threat to Oswald Cobblepot’s plan to consolidate the criminal underworld in Gotham.
“This [love] is such a testament to our showrunner, Lauren LeFranc,” Milioti said of the positive audience response to the show. “I think it tows this really incredible line between being believable and then a heightened opera. It allows you to escape and live out your own fantasy of if someone wrongs you, you could really just burn it all down. But you understand why they’re operating from these places of pain.”
While we’re expecting to see more of The Penguin, we don’t know exactly when that might be coming. In the meantime, we’ll just have to wait for a second Batman movie, which is currently slated for 2027.
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?