Despite all the tomfoolery that surrounds April Fools Day, here’s one nugget of truth: Rick and Morty has announced its season eight premiere date for May 25, 2025. The notoriously irreverent show broke the news at the end of its April Fools’ Day special in a reenactment of key moments from the series in a live-action format.
If you didn’t catch it live, don’t be surprised. The broadcast was in the middle of the night last night — or more specifically, right after midnight the morning of April 1. This wasn’t a new episode, exactly, but rather Adult Swim’s take on live-action theater. It was 22 minutes of some of the best moments from Rick and Morty, including the famous Pickle Rick costume.
“We hope you enjoyed our theater interpretations of ‘Rick and Morty,’ especially if you are well-off/impulsive and now want to back a Broadway version of the show,” Adult Swim said in a press release. “For the rest of you, we’re glad you now know when Season Eight is starting so you have time to stretch and get loose because the team has yet again made a totally great season of television.”
Rick and Morty S8 premieres May 25 at 11p on Adult Swim#rickandmorty #adultswimpic.twitter.com/lWoafWWFVA
Unfortunately for fans, the team is playing it close to the vest with this new season. There are few details about what the new season will include, and anyone claiming to know otherwise probably shouldn’t be trusted, at least not today. That said, we can make a few guesses.
Season eight is likely to be more of the same shenanigans as the previous seasons, and that isn’t a bad thing. Between its clever writing, irreverent jokes, and seemingly endless ability to take a topic and flip it on its head, you’re sure to be entertained. Tune in at 11 PM ET on May 25 to catch the new season as soon as it premieres.
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?