What’s happened: Netflix has shared the official trailer for Academy Award-nominated director Noah Baumbach’s fascinating new film, Jay Kelly.
Why this is important: The trailer for Jay Kelly reveals more about Baumbach’s mysterious film, teasing a unique and heartfelt new comedy-drama that celebrates life and cinema.
Why should I care? Jay Kelly seems like it could be another Oscar contender for Baumbach, with Clooney and Sandler possibly getting award nominations as well.
OK, what’s next? Cinephiles can go see Jay Kelly in select theaters on November 14, 2025.
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.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
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?