The upcoming Camp Firewood reunion is bringing big changes. Netflix has released the first clip from Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, and it introduces two new stars — one of whom is replacing an old favorite.
The clip begins with McKinley (Michael Ian Black) arriving back at camp, with a husband, named Ben, and a baby in tow. Ben introduces their nanny for the weekend, Renata (Alyssa Milano), and it’s initially confusing because it seems viewers are supposed to know him, even though the actor who plays him, Adam Scott, is new to the Wet Hot American Summer world. He then quickly greets Susie (Amy Poehler) with a big hug and an explanation.
“I don’t know if you noticed …” he says gravely, gesturing to his face.
“I did,” Susie says. “Did it fix your deviated septum?”
“That’s all that matters.”
That “deviated septum” surgery is how Ben went from looking like Bradley Cooper, who played him in both Wet Hot American Summer and its prequel, First Day of Camp, to getting the face of Scott. Susie is unfazed, though.
“You look amazing,” she says. “Even better than before.”
Replacing a key star is always hard to do, but at the same time, the reunion would have been strange without Ben. He was the one to suggest the reunion, after all, and having him return allows his relationship with McKinley to continue. Since someone had to take over for Cooper, Scott is a good choice. He previously starred alongside Poehler in Parks and Recreation as her love interest, and they have great onscreen chemistry.
Aside from Cooper, Ten Years Later features plenty of Wet Hot American Summer vets. As mentioned above, Poehler and Black return, along with Paul Rudd, Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Michael Showalter, David Wain, Jason Schwartzman, and more. On the newbie side, we’ll meet characters played by Milano, Dax Shepard, and Jai Courtney, among others.
We can’t wait to see these crazy Camp Firewood kids back in action. Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later hits Netflix on Aug. 4.
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?