The last day of school should be easy for a teacher, but that is not the case for Charlie Day’s character in Fist Fight. Warner Bros. Pictures released a new trailer Wednesday that builds up to a showdown between weakling teacher Andy Campbell (Day) and tough-guy colleague Ron Strickland (Ice Cube).
The trailer teases the matchup by comparing it to other high-profile rivalries, including Ali versus Frazier, 2Pac versus Biggie, and — since this is Warner Bros., after all — Batman versus Superman. Campbell versus Strickland looks much less evenly matched, though. Day’s character is shown desperately soliciting advice from his fellow teachers and even trying to call the police, who just laugh at him.
The trailer owns its absurdity. Ice Cube intimidates while throwing out lines like, “I don’t need to be liked; I need to educate.” On top of that, we see Day being pulled around the school by a horse and Ice Cube running around with an ax in hand.
While the storyline centers around the fight, there are other issues going on as well. With it being the last day of the school year, seniors are pulling pranks, and the administration is bumbling along. There are also budget cuts that put jobs in jeopardy.
The staff at the school and other players in the film are portrayed by a hilarious and talented group of actors. In addition to Day and Ice Cube, the Fist Fight cast includes Jillian Bell, Tracy Morgan, Kumail Nanjiani, Christina Hendricks, Dean Norris, and Dennis Haysbert. They’re directed by Richie Keen, who makes his feature film directorial debut after previously working on TV shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and New Girl. The script was written by Van Robichaux and Evan Susser.
Fist Fight swings into theaters on February 17.
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?