If you were one of the many millennials who looked on in horror as Michael Bay got his grubby hands on your Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, you may not be all that thrilled about the potential fate of another iconic ‘80s/’90s cartoon.
According to Variety, director Joseph McGinty Nichol (AKA- McG) is in talks to helm a live-action reboot of Masters of the Universe. The original film from the ’80s was itself an underwhelming adaptation of the classic cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, based off of Mattel’s popular toy line.
Given that McG kicked off his directorial career with a somewhat underwhelming reboot (Charlie’s Angels), and then a more underwhelming sequel to that underwhelming reboot (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle), you could forgive fans for being less than optimistic.
That said, the director has turned out some fairly well respected films, too. We Are Marshall and Terminator Salvation come to mind. And however you feel about McG, no one has signed on the dotted line as of yet, so this is all very preliminary.
The director is currently busy filming The Babysitter, a coming-of-age horror story which stars Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, and Hana Mae Lee.
Perhaps the more burning question at this point is: Who will play He-Man? Though no one would accuse the original 1987 film of being a masterpiece, it’s tough to imagine an actor that embodies the physical traits of the character better than Dolph “if he dies, he dies” Lundgren. We’d suggest Chris Hemsworth, but he’s busy playing another mythical and muscled hero, one that — he says — is too similar for him to consider the role.
The Masters of the Universe reboot has yet to set a release date and details are very scarce for the time being. We’ll keep you updated as information becomes available.
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?