Hollywood loves a good reunion, especially between two megastars like Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, Reeves and Bullock will reteam for an untitled romantic thriller in development at Amazon MGM Studios. Noah Oppenheim, who recently co-created Netflix’s Zero Day, will pen the script. Plot details are under wraps, but the idea has been described as “propulsive.”
Reeves and Bullock famously starred in Speed, Jan de Bont’s 1994 thriller about a bomb on a bus. Reeves played Jack Traven, an LAPD officer searching for Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), a former bomb squad member turned extortionist. Payne placed a bomb on a city bus that will trigger if the speed drops below 50 miles per hour. Jack manages to jump onto the moving bus and works to diffuse the situation. One of the passengers is Annie Porter (Bullock), who ends up operating the bus after the driver suffers a gunshot wound.
Released in June 1994, Speed became a box office juggernaut, grossing $350 million worldwide on a budget of less than $40 million. The movie propelled Reeves and Bullock to superstardom.
Despite some critical misses, Reeves eventually struck gold with The Matrix. Meanwhile, Bullock became a rom-com icon and A-list star, culminating with the Oscar for Best Actress in 2009’s The Blind Side. 30 years after Speed, Reeves and Bullock are still considered top draws. Reeves revitalized his career with the John Wick franchise, while Bullock had a string of hits, including Bird Box, Unforgivable, and The Lost City.
Reeves and Bullock reunited over a decade later in 2006’s The Lake House. The romantic fantasy movie was not well-received critically, but it still grossed over $114 million. Mark Gordon, who produced Speed, will produce the new romantic thriller. Additional producers include Reeves, Bullock, Oppenheim, Sarah Bremner, and Bibby Dunn.
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?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.