If you count yourself among the millions of Making a Murderer fans who believe that Steven Avery and/or Brendan Dassey are innocent of the crimes that have landed them life sentences, you’re used to having your hopes dashed.
That said, if you were hoping for a second season of the celebrated and much discussed series, you probably don’t want to hold your breath.
In a recent interview, THR asked Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content acquisition, about the the possibility of a second season, and he responded by saying “there’s no idea for a second season, there’s no pitch for a second season; we’re not talking about a second season.”
While that doesn’t exactly sound encouraging, Sarandos did not say for certain that there wouldn’t be a second season. When asked if he was closing the book on the idea of expanding upon the series, he responded “no. I know you’re asking for me to say that we’re doing something or not, and we don’t know yet.”
… So you’re telling us there’s a chance.
In reality, absent any new developments, it seems highly unlikely that the series will continue. The original comprised 700 hours of footage, shot over a 10-year period and required an astounding amount of work and commitment from filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. It’s just difficult to imagine recreating that for another season or another case.
The more likely scenario is that we’ll see a follow-up episode or two if the public’s renewed interest in the case results in it being reopened or re-examined.
Fans of the show have already appealed to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and President Barack Obama asking that Avery be pardoned, but while the former was unwilling to grant such a pardon, the latter was unable, as Avery is a state convict and did not commit a federal crime.
We’ll keep you updated on Netflix’s plans and on the case itself, but for the moment, it looks like that’s a wrap on Making a Murderer.
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?