Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have raced cars and lived together as stepbrothers onscreen, and now the actors will join forces to solve mysteries. The duo will put a comedic spin on Irish-Scots writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of Sherlock Holmes in Sony Pictures’ upcoming Holmes & Watson, reports Deadline.
The actors have reportedly been wanting to team up again for years after co-starring in 2006’s Talladega Nights and 2008’s Step Brothers, and now they have found the perfect opportunity. Directed by Etan Cohen, Holmes & Watson is inspired by Conan Doyle’s beloved tales but will present a more comic version of the iconic crime-solving duo. Ferrell will put on Sherlock Holmes’ famous detective cap, while Reilly will take on the role of his sidekick, Dr. John Watson.
Over the years, Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times, from early 1900s stage and radio plays to films and TV series, with Holmes having been portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Charlton Heston, and more. Given that the stories have usually been dramatized, Holmes & Watson should give the story a unique spin. In addition to reuniting a successful comedy duo, the film will bring Ferrell and Cohen back together — the two worked on the Cohen-helmed Get Hard.
Holmes & Watson has been in the works for some time now, with Ferrell previously attached to star alongside Sacha Baron Cohen, according to Deadline. While that evidently did not work out, Reilly emerged as a capable replacement. The comedy flick is produced by Mosaic and Gary Sanchez Productions, with Jonathan Kadin overseeing for Columbia, and Chris Henchy and Jessica Elbaum overseeing for Gary Sanchez.
A timeline for the film’s release has not been announced, but production is reportedly set to begin shortly following Thanksgiving.
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.
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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?