Summer is finally here, and everyone is still feeling the crunch of inflation in their pocketbooks. With subscription prices for streaming services on the rise, it can be hard to find quality entertainment at a fair price. YouTube has some free movies, but in general, major streamers like Netflix and Apple TV+ require a fee to access their digital treasures.
Amazon, however, is different. Yes, it costs money to subscribe to Prime Video, but the company also has another, less pricey option. For consumers who don’t want to pay the Prime rate for movies and TV shows, it offers an alternative: Freevee, an ad-supported option that has a plethora of top-tier movies and shows, including action movies like Knight and Day with Tom Cruise, modern TV shows like The Good Wife, comedies like Superbad, and awesome movies like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Like any other streaming service, titles come and go, so keep reading to find out everything coming to Amazon Freevee in July 2023.
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016)
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?