The Boy Who Lived is no more, or rather, he’s no longer Daniel Radcliffe.
The real-life muggle who brought the wizard to life on the silver screen for over a decade has announced that his magical days are now behind him. But will we ever look at Radcliffe and not see a lightning bolt scar? Only time will tell.
Renewed interest in J.K. Rowling’s classic tale of witchcraft and wizardry recently arose with the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, as well as the imminent spinoff movie Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, but it doesn’t look as though Radcliffe will have anything to do with either of these projects. “Nobody has said anything to me about … revitalizing the films, so I don’t know,” Radcliffe told Reuters in London on Friday.
But even if producers did come knocking, the 27-year-old actor noted, it probably wouldn’t be something he would pursue.
“It’s not something I think I’d be interested in, and also if they do it now I feel they should just cast the people from the play,” said Radcliffe.
Even so, some more avid fans may be disappointed to learn that the actor, who was only 11 when he first become Harry Potter, will not be reprising the role that catapulted him into stardom and fame. Don’t worry, though. Daniel Radcliffe certainly isn’t through acting. When Reuters interviewed him, Radcliffe was in London promoting two of his most recent films (both indie productions, and departures from his famous franchise) — Swiss Army Man and Imperium.
So there it is, friends. We all have to grow up sometimes (after all, Harry Potter is not to be confused with Peter Pan), and that includes even Harry Potter himself. And for those who are disappointed, we know what will make you feel better. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens November 18.
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?