Michael Mann’s Enzo Ferrari biopic was stuck in first gear for quite a while but it looks as if its engine is finally getting revved up.
The Wrap is reporting that Paramount has acquired the film’s domestic distribution rights and that Mann and company are already in talks with Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), who has been tapped to play Laura Dominica, Ferrari’s wife.
Talks with Rapace are still in the early stages, but the mere fact that Christian Bale could soon have a co-star means this movie is moving forward rather than stalling out, as some had suspected it would. We’ve known for a while now that Bale would play the eponymous auto-entrepreneur, but details on the supporting cast had been pretty much nil. The fact that film lacked a distributor also helped make it feel less real and more like the thousands of Hollywood projects that get stuck in perpetual limbo.
Now that Parmount is on board, however, it looks like the news may come fast and furious on Enzo Ferrari, which would be a welcome change of pace for its director.
This movie has been a very long time coming for Mann, who first began exploring the idea right around the turn of the millennium and has been working on-and-off since then to make it happen. The project pulled a huge coup in landing Bale, who remains one of the biggest-ticket actors in Hollywood, but if we had a dollar for every time an actor/actress was signed on to a project that he/she didn’t end up appearing in, we’d have have a Ferrari-sized fortune on our hands.
Here’s hoping that this one continues to trend in the right direction. We’ll be sure to update you with additional casting information and a release date as soon as it becomes available.
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?