The Ocean’s trilogy is getting a female-driven spinoff, and the Ocean’s Eight cast is going to be as impressive as their male counterparts. Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett are already onboard, and deals with Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, and Awkwafina (rapper and actress Nora Lum) are close, reports Deadline.
The group brings together both veteran actresses and relative newcomers. While Bullock, Blanchett, Hathaway, and Carter are all Oscar winners or nominees, Rihanna and Awkwafina have taken on acting roles only in recent years. Meanwhile, Kaling is best known for her comedic work on The Office and The Mindy Project.
The prospective cast is a potent bunch, to say the least. Between them, there are multiple Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Emmys (not to mention nominations), as well as Grammys. The women could certainly carry the film without any help, but they may get an extra boost nonetheless. Stars from the original heist trilogy, such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and Matt Damon, may appear in the spinoff.
Ocean’s Eight follows a series that began as a remake of Ocean’s 11, a 1960 Rat Pack film. The original starred Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop, and others. Steven Soderbergh directed the 2001 remake and will produce Ocean’s Eight.
Gary Ross, who is known as a frequent unofficial collaborator of Soderbergh, will helm the spinoff. His resume includes films like The Hunger Games, Pleasantville, and Seabiscuit. Susan Ekins is executive producing, while Jesse Ehrman and Greg Silverman will oversee the film for Warner Bros.
The film is set to begin filming in October in New York. No timeline for the Oceans Eight theatrical release has yet been announced.
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?