It’s safe to say that a lot of people have watched Deadpool & Wolverine by now. The MCU movie, which pairs The Merc with a Mouth with the X-Man Wolverine in a wacky multiverse adventure, has grossed over $900 million as of August 8, and will easily pass the $1 billion mark after this weekend.
It’s hard for a movie these days to make that much money, which is a testament to just how much people like this film. Aside from the much-publicized popcorn buckets that are already scarce collectibles and viral Tweets and video clips about its many surprise cameos, Deadpool & Wolverine‘s impressive popularity has already crossed over into the world of gaming.
In particular, Fortnite, the battle royale sandbox online game that is still massively popular after all these years, showcased one fan’s love for the movie in the form of a faithful re-creation of the film’s opening sequence. A picture’s worth a thousand words, and a video is worth about a million more, so watch the clip below and see for yourself.
The talented YouTuber, ToraMeda, helpfully provided a side-by-side comparison via a small screen in the upper left of the video to show how faithful the re-creation really is. It’s not exact, of course, because Fortnite, as popular as it is, doesn’t have the most realistic graphics around, and the movie’s visuals were created with help of a $200 million+ budget.
Still, it’s a surprisingly faithful homage, with Deadpool’s killer moves synced well with the NSYNC song Bye Bye Bye. Heck, in some ways, the Fortnite version is better, if only because it has the Deadpool emote to play with, which makes the mutant anti-hero far more dexterous on the dance floor than his silver screen counterpart is in the movie.
That’s just my opinion, though. But we can all agree that homages like these are fun to watch and share. It also makes me want to make one of my own. Anyone know how to faithfully re-create the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut in Fortnite? Anyone?
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?