We’ve reported extensively on the wild, roller-coaster ride that has been the production of Suicide Squad, and the film doesn’t seem like it’s ready to let us disembark just yet. After it underwent highly publicized reshoots to make it more fun, uncertainty abounded over what sort of tone it was trying to strike, but some new art may give us a better idea of what we’re in for when this thing actually hits theaters.
As reported by ScreenCrush, two new Suicide Squad posters dropped earlier this week, and no one can accuse them of being overly drab and dark. The first is essentially a multicolored hodgepodge of stickers in the shape of a mushroom cloud and features the film’s title, underscored by the words “Worst. Heroes. Ever.” The second looks like a bowl of limited edition Lucky Charms that you might find at, say, Hot Topic. It reads “They’re Magically Delicious.” Oops, scratch that. It reads,“We Need Them Bad.”
While both posters are undoubtedly fun, we can’t help but feel that both are bizarrely juvenile. That said, perhaps making the film more fun was code for making it more teen/tween friendly. After all — despite talk of how it was so dark that it needed an on-set therapist — it did just receive a PG-13 rating.
In any case, you can color us thoroughly confused at this point. Whether this film is a dark and dreary downer, a fun and lighthearted romp, or a muddled mix of both, we won’t be surprised.
Suicide Squad stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Cara Delevingne and Jared Leto. The film is set to hit theaters August 5, but stay tuned, as it’s bound to make plenty of news before then.
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?