What happened: Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer discussed the show’s finale, particularly its runtime, content, and whether Netflix will screen it in theaters.
Why this is important: The Duffers confirmed that the Stranger Things finale will resolve all the mysteries and plotlines laid out throughout the show.
Why should I care? Stranger Things is one of the most popular TV shows in history, so the series finale will surely be a massive streaming sensation.
OK, what’s next? Volume 1 of Stranger Things season 5 will premiere on Netflix on November 26, while Volume 2 will premiere on December 25, and the finale will premiere on New Year’s Eve.
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?