It’s always interesting to see actors and actresses campaigning for particular roles. While we tend to think of these folks as even-keeled, too-cool-for-school types, they can be just as anxious over their employment situations as your average Joe/Jane. Case in point: Tyrese Gibson lobbying on social media for a role in the upcoming Transformers: The Last Knight. Though his posts have since been deleted, they seem to have had their intended effect, as one very important person took notice.
According to ScreenCrush, director Michael Bay appears to have appreciated the actor’s sticktoitiveness, as the Instagram posts below show Tyrese and the king of explosions/slow-motion helicopters at sunset palling around.
A video posted by TYRESE (@tyrese) on Jun 27, 2016 at 2:24pm PDT
First off, is that a tricked-out Transformers plane? Bus? Autobot? We can’t tell, but it looks pretty darn cool. Second, it’s sort of ironic to see a guy that shoots movies for a living acting so camera-shy. Thirdly, it looks like Tyrese will, in fact, appear in The Last Knight, joining a cast that already includes Mark Wahlberg (Cade Yeager), Isabela Moner (Izabella), and the great Anthony Hopkins.
The actor played Chief Master Sergeant Robert Epps in the franchise’s first three films, but was left on the sidelines for its fourth installment: Transformers: Age of Extinction. No word yet on just how substantial his role in this film will be, but we’ll keep you updated as the details filter in.
Transformers: The Last Knight is set to hit theaters June 23, 2017. In the meantime, you can catch Tyrese in Ride Along 2, now on DVD, and in Fast 8, which is scheduled for an April 14, 2017, release.
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?