In the past six months, we’ve seen plenty of everyone’s favorite amnesic blue tang, but the star of Finding Dory is so darn lovable that you can’t help but want more. Luckily, Disney U.K. gave fans just that earlier Tuesday, when it released a new trailer for the film that features plenty of fresh footage, and even a few new species joining in on the fun.
The official U.K. trailer (embedded above) checks in at 2 minutes, 34 seconds — substantially longer than the spots we’ve seen thus far — and Disney uses this extended look to provide us with a glimpse at the aftermath of Dory’s separation from her family.
We open up with a flashback, as two fish weave through a murky kelp forest. The pair happens upon a juvenile Dory, who introduces herself before they ask “where are your parents?” We then cut to her enlisting the help of an oceanic sunfish, but when asked, she again can’t recall where she left her kin.
Beyond that, we get a deeper look at life inside the Monterey Marine Life Institute and the debut of Idris Elba as Fluke the sea lion. While Marlin warns Nemo that he is a “natural predator” who could “pounce at any moment,” the only thing that seems to bother him at all is when an unsuspecting rival encroaches upon his rock. He barks, “OFF!, OFF!, OFF!,” but turns back into a gentle giant as soon as the trespasser retreats back into the water.
As was the case with the previous trailers, this spot is loads of fun, and we have no reason to doubt that the movie itself will be a similarly good time. Let’s be honest, if you can’t get a kick out of nearsighted whale sharks and ill-tempered octopi, you’re just not all that fun yourself.
For those based outside of the U.K., you can ignore the note at the end about the film hitting cinemas on July 29. Here in the United States, Finding Dory hits theaters June 17.
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?