There has been endless speculation on whether Daniel Craig will reprise his James Bond role again, with signs seeming to point to “unlikely” after the actor reportedly turned down a massive offer. His fate as the famed 007 also looked dubious when the actor took on a starring role in Showtime’s upcoming series Purity. The role will not, however, prevent Craig from donning his Bond tux again, according to Showtime CEO David Nevins.
While speaking at the premium network’s Television Critics Association summer press tour Thursday, the CEO clarified that Craig would be able to do both the 20-episode TV series and the next Bond movie — if he wants to, reports Deadline.
“It depends when they do the next James Bond movie, but I don’t think it precludes him,” said Nevins.
The exec explained that the bulk of the work on Purity will be completed during 2017, and suggested that Bond producers could wait till it’s done to film the follow-up to Spectre. Time could possibly work in Eon Productions’ favor; Craig’s comments about preferring a brutal suicide to thinking about filming a sequel indicated that — at the very least — the actor needed some distance from the iconic role.
If Craig is truly ready to put his Bond days behind him, his fans will at least be able to enjoy Purity over a two-year period. The limited series will be broken up into two installments, with each of the 20 episodes being directed by Todd Field. The series is based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Jonathan Franzen, the award-winning author of The Corrections.
Field and Franzen will team up with David Hare to co-write the series, and the trio will executive produce alongside Craig, Scott Rudin, and Eli Bush. A release date has not yet been announced.
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?