Tomb Raider fans looking forward to seeing Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft in the upcoming reboot are going to have to be patient — the next big screen adaptation of the video game franchise isn’t slated for release until March 16, 2018, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Overall, details about the project have been scarce. The reboot will, however, reportedly follow a “young and untested” Croft on her first adventure, according to an earlier THR report. The synopsis sounds reminiscent of the recent game reboot, which breathed new life into the series in 2013. The cinematic reboot will see Lara Croft return to the big screen for the first time in more than a decade, when Angelina Jolie played the character in two commercially successful films loosely inspired by the series: 2001’s Tomb Raider and 2003’s Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
Vikander has rapidly risen to stardom recently thanks to her Oscar-winning turn in The Danish Girl, and breakout performances in films like Ex Machina and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. In 2016, Vikander will appear in the drama The Light Between the Oceans and Jason Bourne, which marks the return of Matt Damon to the action spy series. Her casting came after it had been widely reported that Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley was a leading contender for the coveted role. Cara Delevigne, Emilia Clarke, and Saoirse Ronan were all rumored to be in the running, as well.
The project is coming along slowly but surely. The reboot has been in some form of development since game series publisher Square Enix licensed the film rights to GK Films in 2011. MGM and Warner Bros are overseeing production together, with Graham King producing and Norwegian director Roar Uthaug (best known for his 2015 film The Wave) at the helm.
The release date is unfortunately later than had been expected — and hoped for — by many fans. Hollywood gossip blog Heroic Hollywood previously suggested the film was on track to hit theaters in October 2017.
Updated 7/7/16 by Stephanie Topacio Long: This posted has been updated to incorporate the film’s release date.
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?