Moviegoers have been feasting on Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s latest film, Sausage Party, at the box office, but the duo is busy looking ahead to new projects. They now have plans delve into an artificial intelligence-filled future with Silicon Valley writer and producer Sonny Lee, according to The Hollywood Reporter. FX has given a pilot order to Singularity, a comedy written by Lee and produced by Rogen and Goldberg.
Lee’s premise explores a future society in which artificial intelligence is much more advanced than human intelligence. The writer reportedly decided to reach out to Rogen and Goldberg because its tone is similar to that of This Is the End. The duo wrote, produced, and directed the 2013 comedy flick, which starred Rogen, James Franco, Emma Watson, Jonah Hill, and more.
While Rogen and Goldberg are best known for films like Superbad, Pineapple Express, and Neighbors, they have also proven themselves as TV producers. With their production company, Point Grey, they recently brought the comic book adaptation Preacher to AMC. The series debuted in May and has already been renewed for a second season. They are also behind Future Man, a pilot ordered by Hulu.
Singularity caught the attention of multiple studios and inspired bidding before landing at FX. The pilot was ordered off a pitch, which is rare, as Deadline points out. Rogen, Goldberg, and Lee’s previous work has clearly set expectations high, so it will be interesting to see what they create.
It is unclear how soon the Singularity pilot could be released — if it is at all — but in the meantime, FX has multiple other interesting new comedies to look forward to. This fall, the network will premiere Better Things from Louis C.K. and Pamela Adlon, as well as Donald Glover’s music-centric comedy-drama Atlanta.
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?