Marvel’s reality-bending sorcerer superhero will be on full display when Doctor Strange hits theaters later this year. When the film starring Benedict Cumberbatch opens, fans can look forward to a solid block of entertainment — Doctor Strange‘s runtime has been revealed, and the movie clocks in at a solid 130 minutes, reports Slash Films.
With the superhero flick opening overseas before it does in the United States, cinemas abroad have been preparing for its release. Australian theater chain Event Cinemas has listed Doctor Strange‘s runtime, sharing the news with those of us who have to wait longer. Australian moviegoers will be able to watch the film starting on Thursday, October 27, while viewers in the U.S. won’t have their chance for another week.
Doctor Strange is also due out earlier in other countries as well, including both the United Kingdom and Russia, where its release dates were recently changed. The film’s opening was bumped forward to Tuesday, October 25, from Friday, October 28, in the U.K., and in Russia, it was pushed up to October 28 from Thursday, November 3.
News of the move in the latter country came with a new photo, tweeted by Marvel Russia on Wednesday. The image is admittedly pretty similar to what we’ve seen before, but getting a fresh look at Doctor Strange (Cumberbatch) and the Sanctum Sanctorum is always exciting.
https://twitter.com/MARVELRussia/status/773523732786737152
When the film opens, viewers will get an adventure that’s a bit shorter than some of Marvel’s most recent hits. However, considering how many superheroes were packed into Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Age of Ultron — which ran for 147 and 141 minutes, respectively — it is not surprising that Doctor Strange tells its story a little faster.
Doctor Strange opens in the U.S. on Friday, November 4.
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?