It seems that the idea of an all-female Ghostbusters reboot may have inspired some folks over in Hollywood.
The Playlist is reporting that Sandra Bullock is set to star alongside ten other actresses in an all-female version of the 2001 classic Ocean’s Eleven … which of course was a remake of the 1960 classic of the same name.
Bullock, however, is not expected to play Danielle Ocean. The actress will have her own character and may even be visited by George Clooney’s Danny Ocean at some point during the film. The two have become close and recently worked together on Our Brand is Crisis, with Clooney producing and Bullock starring.
While we don’t know who will play the other 10 heisters yet, it looks like Hunger Games Director Gary Ross will be at the helm, with Olivia Milch (Queen & Country) penning the script.
The Ocean’s trilogy will doubtless be a tough act to follow, but 11 talented, charismatic women + a complicated, crazy-yet-clever caper + witty repartee sounds like a winning formula to us.
Sometimes we rail against the reboot/remake/re-imagining culture in Hollywood, but these female-led reworkings aren’t just slapping a fresh coat of paint on done and re-done franchises. Changing the genders of lead characters requires producers to rethink some of the fundamentals of these stories and to come at them from a fresh angle.
This particular project was reportedly initiated last year George Clooney, Ocean’s 11-13 Director Steven Soderbergh, and the late, great Producer Jerry Weintraub, and has been “gestating” since the fall of 2014. Big news remaining under wraps for an entire year? That may be a Hollywood record.
While Director Gary Ross is currently busy working with Matthew McConaughey on The Free State Of Jones, the Ocean’s reboot will likely be his next film. That said, this project has a few hurdles to clear before it begins shooting, so be sure to stay tuned.
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?