Drunk History began as a quirky web series from Funny or Die, but the concept quickly blossomed into a hit TV series on Comedy Central. At Comic-Con San Diego on Friday, the show set a premiere date for its fourth season, and Deadline reports that it also revealed a very special narrator for an upcoming episode.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway wunderkind and creator of Hamilton will be getting sloshed and telling us about the duel that brought the demise of his show’s titular hero.
The non-alcohol-infused version of the story is that former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton had a long-standing feud with sitting Vice President Aaron Burr, which culminated in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, on July 11, 1804. Hamilton shot first and may or may not have missed deliberately. Burr then delivered his shot, which struck the founding father in the abdomen. He died from his wound the next day.
While that story may sound more depressing than comedic, it was more than 200 years ago, and you can expect Miranda and company to get some serious laughs out of their twisted, drunken retelling. No word yet on who might play Burr — or any of the other principals — but we’ll keep you updated as the information filters in.
Also on tap for the upcoming season is the story of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s (Busy Philipps) friendship with Soviet soldier Lyudmila Pavlichenko (Mae Whitman), and their shared fight for women’s rights. That installment will be narrated by Paget Brewster (Another Period).
Season 4 is set to premiere on September 27, 2016. Among the other stars making cameos are Michael Cera, Josh Charles, Kat Dennings, Dave Grohl, Tony Hale, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Elizabeth Olsen, Aubrey Plaza, Ronda Rousey, Liev Schreiber, Alia Shawkat, and Duncan Trussell.
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?