It’s no secret that Hollywood’s biggest movies are often teased during TV land’s biggest events, and in keeping with that tradition, last night’s 2016 MTV Movie Awards provided us with yet another look at the upcoming Suicide Squad via yet another trailer.
With the exception of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s hard to remember the last film that got this much advance press, but unlike Star Wars, the news on Suicide Squad has skewed pretty negative overall. Case in point: Recent reports that indicated the film was undergoing reshoots to make it more fun.
As the studio deals with the fallout from the poorly-received, inexplicably dour Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. is rethinking its approach to the DC film universe and — with that in mind — the lighthearted, joke-filled tone of this latest spot (embedded above) is no surprise. What is surprising (and somewhat ironic) is that the Caped Crusader actually has a couple of quick cameos here, which begin around the 1:43 mark.
While reports indicated that nearly every joke in the entire film was featured in the rip-roaring, Bohemian Rhapsody-backed official trailer #2, there are plenty of new ones in this two-minute-and-30-second spot, which has been dubbed “The Blitz Trailer.” From Harley Quinn’s (Margot Robbie) vexing personality, to El Diablo’s (Jay Hernandez) apt drink of choice, to Deadshot’s (Will Smith) wisecracks, everything is mined for humor and fun. Backed by The Sweet’s Ballroom Blitz, even the soundtrack says “let the good times roll.”
The problem is, if this film was initially shot to be dark, gritty, and serious, no amount of reshooting and rebranding is going to totally paper over the original intent.
At this point, it feels like this project is a total wildcard. Whether it’s a hit, a bomb, or somewhere in-between is anybody’s guess.
Suicide Squad hits theaters August 5, 2016.
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?