The latest trailer for upcoming Oscar-contender Jackie, a biopic about Jacqueline Kennedy’s last days in the White House that stars Natalie Portman, offers an intimate peek into one of our nation’s most poised witnesses to tragedy.
Featuring the scenes of President John F. Kennedy’s funeral, the drive to the hospital from the Texas shooting, and stoic, thoughtful insights from Mrs. Kennedy (Portman), the trailer captivates for every second of its two-and-a-half minute run time.
Dark and full of thoughtful quotations, the film appears to deal with the divide between public and private life for the famed first family, as well as the significant toll that loss can take on those in the public eye.
“People like to believe in fairy tales,” Portman’s character opines as the trailer begins, “I believe that the characters that we read about on the page end up being more real than the men who stand beside us.”
As can be expected of a film about the first lady of Camelot, which stars a former Oscar winner, Jackie has been a critical darling so far, having generated significant buzz at Cannes, and won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival, and the Platform Prize at the Toronto Film Festival. Time will tell how the film does on bigger stages, but given the subject matter and the star, it wouldn’t be outlandish to expect the film has high hopes of a few Academy Award nominations.
Jackie was directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain Matte. It was based on a script by Noah Oppenheim, a former Emmy-Winner TV producer who also wrote the screenplay for The Divergent Series: Allegiant — Part 1. Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Richard E. Grant, and John Hurt co-star in the film.
Jackie will debut to limited audiences on December 2, in the heat of the awards-seeking release season. Fox Searchlight will helm the release.
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?