Death has returned with a vengeance in the trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines.
Known for its gruesome kill scenes, the Final Destination Bloodlines trailer opens with a family barbeque on a beautiful sunny day. In true Final Destination fashion, everything that can go wrong will go wrong, including a glass shard hidden in a pile of ice, a faulty trampoline, a misplaced garden tool, and a lawnmower that acts as a murder weapon.
Plagued by a violent, recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) learns that Death is coming for her family. “Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all,” reads the official synopsis.
The trailer reveals Death’s origins in the past, when a young woman escapes a fatal situation. However, “Death doesn’t like it when you mess with his plans.”
Final Destination Bloodlines stars Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, and Brec Bassinger. Tony Todd, who died in November, reprises his role as William Bludworth.
“Only by embracing death will it pass you by,” Bludworth says in the trailer.
Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky direct Final Destination: Bloodlines, with a screenplay by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor. Spider-Man: No Way Home’s Jon Watts is a producer and received a story credit.
Final Destination: Bloodlines is the sixth installment in the franchise and the first entry since 2011’s Final Destination 5.
Final Destination: Bloodlines opens in theaters on May 16, 2025.
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?