Nosferatu star Lily-Rose Depp likely knows a thing or two about which movies traumatize an audience. Her central role in Robert Eggers’ latest film is unsettling, to say the least. Which is why it might come as a surprise to some that, in a recent interview with the U.K. version of Harper’s Bazaar., she said that one of her most traumatizing childhood watches was Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, which stars her father, Johnny Depp, as its central character.
“I was traumatized by it,” Depp explained. “Not because I thought he was scary, but because everyone was being so mean to him, and I got really upset.”
“I remember being petrified by that,” the actress explained, describing a scene where neighbors ask Edward to leave their community, “which is weird because I don’t have many memories from when I was that young … Edward’s the good guy and Nosferatu’s kind of the bad guy, but there’s a part of me that feels a little bit of empathy for Nosferatu. I mean, am I sick for feeling that way?”
She added that she has not returned to the film since she watched it as a child, saying the memory of her watch was “difficult.”
Much like her father in Scissorhands, Nosferatu could prove to be a star-making performance for Lily-Rose. She has earned plenty of praise for her central turn and, at just 25 years old, could have a long career in front of her. While Edward Scissorhands might have been traumatic for her, though, most people would likely agree that Nosferatu is the scarier of the two films.
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?