The casting call for James Gunn’s new Superman cast a pretty wide net, and included plenty of people who were not already well- known stars. In a recent interview on Happy Sad Confused, White Lotus star Patrick Schwarzenegger revealed that he was one of the people who auditioned for the role, although he clarified that he didn’t get very far in the process.
When Schwarzenegger was asked whether he’d auditioned for many superhero films, he said that he’d only auditioned for Homelander on The Boys, Golden Boy on Gen V (a role that he booked), and for James Gunn’s Superman. When host Josh Horowitz asked if he’d gotten into costume for the audition, Schwarzenegger said that he hadn’t and that the audition was a self-tape.
“No, I don’t think I got any feedback. I think it was like, ‘No, not for you,'” he explained. David Corenswet was ultimately cast as Superman, and Schwarzenegger went on to get a spot in the cast of the third season of The White Lotus, where he’s playing a man who is in many ways the opposite of Superman.
Schwarzenegger also explained that, following the pandemic, almost every audition he’s had has been over Zoom.“It’s just one person on the screen and when they talk, they’re on it and then you talk and it switches to you,” he explained. “So, it’s really weird doing a scene with someone because sometimes they’ll be mid talk and you say something, and it’ll switch to you and then it’s really distracting and weird.”
The White Lotus is now airing on Sundays on HBO and Max.
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?