If you were to hear that a major Hollywood movie studio was producing a romantic comedy about two friends who try to convince a woman to date both of them at the same time, you might dismiss it as another cliched entry in a genre with a history of producing some pretty god-awful films.
Sometimes, however, a project can feel fresh, not because of its premise, but because of the way it’s being produced.
Such is the case with We Love You, the romantic comedy from YouTube and Awesomeness Films. While even the title of the film seems pretty generic, the involvement of YouTube and Vine stars suggests that this film might not be continuing the lineage of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Failure to Launch, and other similarly paint-by-numbers rom-coms.
As per Variety, YouTuber Yousef Saleh Erakat (FouseyTube) and Viner Lele Pons are set to star alongside plain-old-fashioned actor Justin Dobies (Dear White People). The film will be released on the YouTube Red subscription service, which gives users access to ad-free music and video for $10/month.
Matt Kaplan, president of Awesomeness Films, called its latest project “a contemporary love story with a comedic twist,” and added that “it is the kind of film, supported by a cast of talented actors, that we know our audience loves.” Susanne Daniels, YouTube’s global head of original content, said, “In less than a year, Awesomeness Films has established itself as a leader in creating films audiences love, and we’re excited to partner with them again on their next film.”
Other notable YouTubers like Ray William Johnson (of YouTube series “Equals Three”) and Lauren Elizabeth Luthringshausen have also been cast in the film, which has yet to set a release date.
We’ll keep you posted as information becomes available.
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?