movies

First trailer for A Minecraft Movie delivers on iconic in-game moments
20 Nov

First trailer for A Minecraft Movie delivers on iconic in-game moments

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , , ,
A Minecraft Movie has dropped its first full-length trailer today, expanding on the blocky world hinted at by the released in September. While the game Minecraft gives players only the barest sense of direction, there will be a traditional story driving A Minecraft Movie.Jack Black provides a voiceover about how his character, Minecraft mascot and stock avatar Steve, was drawn to the mines as a child and discovered the Overworld. He teams up with four other people, seemingly from the real world we know, to protect the Overworld from "dark forces" with their inventiveness and creativity. This all sounds like…
Read More
The $50 Million Movie ‘Here’ De-Aged Tom Hanks With Generative AI
06 Nov

The $50 Million Movie ‘Here’ De-Aged Tom Hanks With Generative AI

stp2y0 CommentsGenAI, , ,
On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real-time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood's first full-length features built around AI-powered visual effects.The film adapts a 2014 graphic novel set primarily in a New Jersey living room across multiple time periods. Rather than cast different actors for various ages, the production used AI to modify Hanks' and Wright's appearances throughout.The de-aging technology comes from Metaphysic, a visual effects company that creates real time face swapping and aging effects. During…
Read More
Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’
17 Oct

Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’

stp2y0 CommentsGenAI, , , ,
“You have to learn the fundamentals,” he says. “Technology will change, but storytelling won’t.”To make his short, “Mnemonade,” really sing, Meta Puppet says he focused on giving the story some emotional heft. “I don’t think AI films will go fully mainstream until we get emotional dialog,” he says. He played all the roles in his short, about the poignance of sense memory and an elderly woman’s loss of memory, using AI from Silicon Valley “unicorn” ElevenLabs to shift his vocal performance into each character’s range and voice.Maddie Hong, who went head-to-head with Meta Puppet in the Culver Cup finals, says…
Read More
Netflix’s The Electric State trailer shows off cartoony robots and oversized VR headsets
17 Oct

Netflix’s The Electric State trailer shows off cartoony robots and oversized VR headsets

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , ,
Netflix has released the first trailer for , a post-apocalyptic road from Marvel (and Community) mainstays The Russo Brothers. The adaptation of Simon Stålenhag's 2018 graphic novel is set in a retro-futuristic version of the '90s after a robot uprising. It tells the story of Michelle, an orphaned teenager (Millie Bobby Brown) who ventures across the west of the US to look for her younger brother with a smuggler (a mustachioed Chris Pratt) and a pair of robots.The movie's look draws heavily from , right down to the oversized VR helmets. The robots, in particular the one accompanying Michelle, have…
Read More
Sony’s Until Dawn movie gets April 25 release date
16 Oct

Sony’s Until Dawn movie gets April 25 release date

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , ,
Sony announced in January that it planned to create a movie adaptation of its 2015 PlayStation game Until Dawn and the project is moving quickly through production. Earlier this month, director David F. Sandberg posted on Instagram that the film had wrapped shooting, and today Sony production house Screen Gems announced that the movie's release date will be April 25, 2025.Until Dawn became a cult favorite among the horror game fans, with a branching narrative that offers dozens of different endings based on a player's choices. If you haven't had a chance to experience the original Supermassive Games title yet,…
Read More
An arcade-style Terrifier beat ’em up game is coming next year
13 Oct

An arcade-style Terrifier beat ’em up game is coming next year

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , ,
The Terrifier franchise, with its distinctively horrifying antagonist Art the Clown, is having a bit of a moment right now. Coinciding with Terrifier 3’s wildly successful opening weekend — the indie horror movie reportedly pulled in — game publisher has announced that a Terrifier video game is in the works and will be released next year. Terrifier: The ARTcade Game is being developed by indie studio and styled after a classic beat ‘em up. The teaser shows it to be a fitting combination of gory and goofy, with colorful pixel art and tons of over-the-top blood spatter.According to the listing,…
Read More
‘Piece by Piece’ Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again
13 Oct

‘Piece by Piece’ Director Morgan Neville Will Never Use AI Again

stp2y0 CommentsAI, , , ,
Would adding that bit have opened up a can of worms? You kind of can’t just glance over Michael Jackson.I mean everybody from Beyoncé to Kanye [West], even though he's worked with all these people, and it's like you can't just, if you dip your toe into them, then it's both unsatisfying and kind of brings up more like, “Well, what about that? Let's get deeper into that story.” And I always look at those things as narrative quicksand.Is that something you just had to make a call about?It wasn't like I was ever going to interview Kanye.It wasn’t like…
Read More
Mash-up of Grand Theft Auto and Hamlet is coming to theaters in the US
10 Oct

Mash-up of Grand Theft Auto and Hamlet is coming to theaters in the US

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , ,
Mubi has secured the US rights and global SVOD rights to Grand Theft Hamlet. In this documentary, two out-of-work actors attempt to stage an entire production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet within the game world of Grand Theft Auto Online during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to , Mubi plans to give the film a release in early 2025, and Mubi's own posts on X say that it will be in "US theaters and streaming globally."The movie is composed of more than 300 hours of GTA footage. Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen might be the main drivers of making the play…
Read More
Here’s a peek at how A Minecraft Movie will handle crafting
28 Sep

Here’s a peek at how A Minecraft Movie will handle crafting

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , , ,
The team behind the upcoming Minecraft movie shared a new clip during Minecraft Live that expands on the brief crafting moment we saw in the polarizing first teaser. The scene comes in the middle of a discussion between Mojang creative director Torfi Frans Olafsson and A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess, at 4:51. The segment also gives us our first look at the movie’s interpretation of a Minecraft bee, which I’m not quite sure how to feel about yet. That you can find toward the end of the video.A Minecraft Movie is slated for release in April 2025 and stars…
Read More
Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, highlighting its power in Hollywood
19 Sep

Amazon joins the Motion Picture Association, highlighting its power in Hollywood

stp2y0 CommentsNews, , , , ,
is joining Hollywood's top lobbying group as its seventh member. To be precise, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios will become part of the Motion Picture Association on October 1, alongside six other heavy hitters in Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix (which ).Amazon was already involved with the MPA, having worked with its Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, an anti-piracy coalition, as a governing board member since 2017. MGM () was previously an MPA member from 1928 until 2005.“The MPA is the global voice for a growing and evolving industry,…
Read More
No widgets found. Go to Widget page and add the widget in Offcanvas Sidebar Widget Area.