Next up from Marvel on Netflix is The Defenders, but Jessica Jones season 2 is moving forward as well. The show has begun to fill out its season 2 cast, starting strong with the addition of acclaimed actress Janet McTeer, EW reports.
McTeer, a Golden Globe winner and two-time Oscar nominee, is taking on an intriguing new role. The specifics are being kept under wraps, but we like what we know so far — namely, that McTeer’s mystery role will have “an enormous impact” on the life of the titular heroine (played by Krysten Ritter), according to EW.
Marvel and Netflix executives sang the praises of the newest member of the cast and dropped some very vague tidbits about her involvement in the show. Executive producer Jeph Loeb teased that McTeer “will be key” to “[capturing] what audiences loved” about season 1 — but really, that could be so many things. Building on that, Jessica Jones creator Melissa Rosenberg added that the actress’ “gravitas and authenticity are the perfect ingredients” for the show’s sophomore season.
McTeer’s work in 1999’s Tumbleweeds was worthy of a Golden Globe, plus she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the effort. Her second Oscar nod came for 2011’s Albert Nobbs. She has also been nominated for numerous other high-profile awards over the years, with the most recent being a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the 2013 series The White Queen.
Jessica Jones is expected to return in 2018 at the earliest, giving us 13 more episodes. In the meantime, fans can look for the show’s hero in The Defenders, which premieres August 18.
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?