The Suicide Squad villains-turned-heroes are back on display in the latest international trailer. While much of the footage overlaps with scenes we saw in the full-length trailer released in April, the new preview is more action-heavy and also offers new glimpses at Jared Leto as The Joker.
The trailer first sets up the story: A government agency, led by Amanda Waller (played by Viola Davis), recruits a group of imprisoned supervillains to take on dangerous missions in exchange for clemency. We see the ragtag gang gleefully pick up their weapons and be given the rules, but then, it’s onto the action. “Let’s play,” says Deadshot (Will Smith) as a montage of combat scenes begins.
The group has varied skills, from swinging swords and baseball bats to shooting bullets and fire. In the midst of it, The Joker shows up as his unique self. “All of that chitchat’s gonna get you hurt,” he says at one point. We also see him taking off his jacket, and then later stretching with all of his chest tattoos visible.
Like the most recent trailer, the new video mixes in plenty of lighthearted moments. They’re ones we’ve seen before, though, including all of the men coming to a standstill as Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) changes shirts, her forewarning that she’s “known to be quite vexing,” and El Diablo (played by Jay Hernandez) deciding to stick to water at the bar. There may be a limit of funny scenes to use given that there had to be reshoots to make the film more fun.
Directed by David Ayer, Suicide Squad also stars Jai Courtney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Cara Delevingne, Adam Beach, Karen Fukuhara, Ike Barinholtz, and Common. The film hits theaters on August 5.
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?