From The Joker to Andy Warhol, Jared Leto is certainly having an interesting year.
The Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club and Suicide Squad actor will reportedly co-produce and star in an upcoming biopic of celebrated artist Warhol, whose pop art based on American consumerism made him an entertainment icon in the 1960s. The film’s script will be penned by Oscar nominee Terence Winter, who wrote the screenplay for The Wolf of Wall Street and won Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on The Sopranos.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Warhol biopic is envisioned as a mainstream, high-profile production rather than a low-budget indie film about the artist’s life, and will be based on Victor Bockris’ 1989 book Warhol: The Biography.
One of the originators of the “pop art” movement, Warhol use various types of media to explore the relationship between commercial culture, celebrity, and artistic expression in the 1960s. His studio in New York City — dubbed “The Factory” — was a popular (and somewhat infamous) gathering place for artists, their patrons, and their groupies during those years, and his art ranks among some of the most expensive pieces ever sold. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the largest museum dedicated to a single artist in the United States.
Joining Leto as a producer on the Warhol biopic is Michael De Luca, the producer on Oscar-nominated biopic hits The Social Network, Captain Phillips, and Moneyball (based on the experiences of Oakland A’s coach Billy Beane).
Leto won’t be the first person to portray Warhol in a big-screen feature. Crispin Glover played Warhol in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film The Doors, and musician David Bowie portrayed him in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film Basquiat. He was also brought to the screen by Jared Harris in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.
Among the other actors to portray Warhol are Bill Hader (in Men in Black 3), Mark Bringleson (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), Guy Pearce (Factory Girl), and Greg Travis (Watchmen).
There’s no official word on when Leto’s biopic of Warhol will begin production or hit theaters.
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?