As the DC Comics looks to get over a few high-profile flops and usher in a new era of adaptations, upcoming films like Suicide Squad, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman will be hugely important. Earlier today, Entertainment Weekly released a photo spread showing everyone’s favorite Amazon princess in action and — though it’s far too early to make any predictions about the film itself — Gal Gadot continues to look the part.
You can check out the new snaps below, which showcase the Israeli actress unsheathing a sword, wielding a shield, striking a super-heroine pose, and staring off into the distance while ignoring Chris Pine (Steve Trevor).
With Monster director Patty Jenkins at the helm and a talented cast headlined by Gadot, Pine and Robin Wright, this could and should be good, but Hollywood is littered with the rotten tomatoes of movies that sounded like hits on paper, but didn’t play that way on screen.
For those that missed the first footage from the film, you can check that out here, and in the process, you’ll learn a bit about the origin story of the woman known as Diana Prince. Part of a tribe of powerful warrior women who once protected human kind, but now living in isolation, she yearns to journey to the outside world and fulfill her mission. Needless to say, she eventually does so, which is bad news for the bad guys.
Apart from those mentioned above, Wonder Woman stars Danny Huston (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), David Thewlis (The Theory of Everything), Ewen Bremner (Exodus: Gods and Kings), Saïd Taghmaoui (American Hustle), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), and Lucy Davis (Shaun of the Dead).
The film is set to hit theaters June 2, 2017.
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?