Earlier this week, we got a look at the first official image from the upcoming, all-female Ghostbusters reboot (above) and yesterday, Sony released dedicated character posters for each member of the phantasm-fighting troupe.
As reported by The Verge, the posters debuted in Entertainment Weekly, Time, People, and InStyle respectively. You can check them out below, along with director Paul Feig’s description of each individual Ghostbuster.
Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) – Particle physicist, academic firebrand, spectral warrior
Jillian Holtzman (Kate McKinnon) – Nuclear engineer, munitions expert, and proton wrangler
Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) – Paranormal researcher, supernatural scientist, and entity trapper
Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones) – Ghost tracker, municipal historian, and metaphysical commando
All four ladies seem to be sporting some serious attitude in these posters and each seems to have a look that says — a la Peter Venkman — “we came, we saw, we kicked its a**.” The familiar catchphrase “who you gonna call” is printed on the bottom of each image and, by the looks of things, these ladies should have no problem handling all of your paranormal elimination needs.
The black & white palette with shocks of color is a really cool aesthetic and, though all of the posters are fun, we’re partial to Kate McKinnon’s Jillian Holtzman who — with her golden goggles and proton pack — seems to have plenty of swagger to spare.
Hopefully, the release of these marketing materials means that it won’t be long before we get some sort of teaser/trailer for the film, but we’ve had no news on that front yet.
Ghostbusters is set to hit theaters July 15, 2016 and in addition to the four principles, Bill Murray (Dr. Peter Venkman), Dan Aykroyd (Dr. Ray Stantz), Ernie Hudson (Winston Zeddemore), Sigourney Weaver (Dana Barrett), and Annie Potts (Janine Melnitz) will all appear in the film.
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?