It’s easy to get weary of remakes in today’s Hollywood, but there are plenty of classics out there that deserve to be updated for a new generation. The Magnificent Seven (1960) is certainly one of them, and an upcoming retelling of the iconic Western tale just released some new art.
As reported by Birth.Movies.Death., the film recently debuted its international poster, which features Denzel Washington (Sam Chisolm), Chris Pratt (Josh Farraday), Ethan Hawke (Goodnight Robicheaux), and the rest of the eponymous septet swaggering toward the viewer, guns at the ready.
Its minimalist, blood-spattered design serves to showcase the film’s heroes and leaves little else to focus on. It’s a story about isolated, outnumbered gunslingers, and this latest image evokes that idea very effectively.
You can check out the new poster above, as well as a classic poster from the original film below just for fun. That film starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson. It also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
If you haven’t seen the original and/or aren’t up to speed on the remake, The Magnificent Seven is the story of seven skilled gunmen who band together to save a village overrun by cold-blooded villains. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, the group (and this isn’t much of a spoiler) kicks several rear ends and takes several names in the process.
Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Southpaw, Shooter) is directing the update and has earned a reputation as one of Hollywood’s top action helmers. You can check out the first trailer for the film here.
The Magnificent Seven is set to hit theaters September 23. The film also stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern), Haley Bennett (The Equalizer), and Byung-hun Lee (Terminator Genisys).
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?