Liam Neeson and his particular set of skills are on the wrong side of the law in Taken 3. This first trailer for the January 9, 2015 release lays out the basic premise. Neeson’s Bryan Mills is back and he’s as angry as ever when malevolent forces start messing with his family.
You know what an angry Bryan Mills means, right? A lot of bad people are going to get shot in the face.
Related: Denzel Washington channels the badass of Bryan Mills in The Equalizer
It looks like Mills is framed for the murder of someone close to him early on, and that lands him in the crosshairs of law enforcement. Rather than trust government officials to perform the task they’ve been trained for, Mills takes matters into his own hands. And he’s very gruff about it.
The Taken movies are always a good time, and this third one looks like it’s more of badass Liam Neeson doing badass Liam Neeson things. We can get on board with that.
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?