The first trailer we saw for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea was a listless, restless spot, that showcased crying, drinking, smoking, and plenty of spousal abuse.
And now a new trailer for the film has debuted, and … it’s a listless, restless spot, that showcases crying, drinking, smoking, and plenty of spousal abuse.
You know what you’re in for if you buy a ticket for this one: You’re going to be watching a train wreck, but oh what a beautiful train wreck it will be. As much as the movie business may change, putting absurdly beautiful people in absurdly beautiful places may still be a winning formula.
Brad Pitt brooding on a rocky shore, Angelina Jolie leaning longingly on a balcony railing — just in time for Halloween, this trailer delivers basket after basket of delicious eye candy.
Filmed on the rocky coast of Gozo, a tiny island off Malta with a population of just 31,000, the film seems to use its idyllic location to make the point that, no matter how perfect things may look on the surface, they can be seriously ugly and mangled beneath it.
Since neither co-star says a single word in this trailer, it’s tough to glean anything too meaningful, but the real draw here is that we get Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the same screen for the first time since Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005). This time around, Jolie also directed the film, and fans of Brangelina will have to hope that a couple working together on a film about a couple growing apart isn’t a recipe for a real-life relationship disaster. But something tells us Hollywood’s favorite power couple will be just fine.
By the Sea is set to hit theaters Nov. 13, 2015
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?