Jimmy Fallon keeps busy as the host of The Tonight Show, but he has proven willing to lend his talents to awards shows in the past. In 2017, he’ll do it again: He has been named host of the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will air on Sunday, January 8, 201,7 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on NBC.
Fallon has consistently been drawing late-night TV’s biggest audience, so he was a smart choice for the role. He’ll host an awards show that has remained strong in recent years, hitting 18.5 million live-plus same day viewers in 2016, according to Nielsen data.
“We’re thrilled to announce Jimmy as host of The 74th Annual Golden Globes,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt in a statement. “This is the most spontaneous and uninhibited award show on television, and Jimmy’s playful, disarming comedic brilliance makes him the ideal host to enhance and elevate the sense of fun and irreverence that’s made the Golden Globes one of the premier events of the entire broadcast year.”
Fallon has already kicked off the jokes on Twitter by promising to “make the Globes Gold again,” a clear allusion to Donald Trump’s well-known campaign slogan.
Let’s make the Globes Gold again! Plan your Globes party Jan.8th. You could be part of the show. #GoldenGlobes
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) August 2, 2016
We do expect the show to be a good one. The appeal of Fallon sense of humor is why The Tonight Show leads its rivals, and he’ll bring that to the awards show. He likely hasn’t started planning yet, but let’s hope that he busts out one of his always-entertaining collaborations with Justin Timberlake.
The show will be produced by Dick Clark productions in association with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Nominations for the awards will be announced as the event gets closer, on Monday, December 12.
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?