Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste<\/p>\n
Radu Jude, the Romanian filmmaker behind recent works like Bad Luck Banging Or Looney Porn and Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World<\/a>, is already gearing up to release one new movie this year, Kontinental \u201925. Based on the first trailer for that<\/a>, it looks as surreal and darkly comic as his last couple of works. But he\u2019s got another one in the pipeline, too: Dracula. You may be wondering: how did Jude manage to create two films in such close proximity, one of which has a runtime of nearly three hours? Speculating here, but, at least in the case of Dracula, it could have to do with the copious amount of AI used in the first look clip, shared today.\u00a0<\/p>\n That\u2019s not necessarily a dig at the quality of Dracula, which seems to be about the use of AI in filmmaking as much as it has used AI in its own filmmaking. A logline teases: \u201cWhat happens when a young and curious filmmaker challenges his creativity with the limitless possibilities of a fake A.I.? A surprising mix of various stories, from new and old times, about the original myth of Dracula: a vampire hunt, zombies and Dracula crashing a strike, a science-fiction tale about Vlad the Impaler\u2019s return, an adaptation of the first Romanian vampires novella, a tragic romance, a vulgar folktale, A.I. generated kitsch stories\u2026 and much more!\u201d The AI, which looks completely ridiculous, is very much presented as a selling point here; you can check out a first look clip from the film below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n While the use of generative AI is still, understandably, a non-starter for a lot of film professionals<\/a> and fans, those familiar with Jude\u2019s work probably won\u2019t be too surprised by the auteur\u2019s embrace of it. (See: the Snapchat filters that proliferate<\/a> Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World.)\u00a0 However, Jude claims it was also a \u201cpractical\u201d decision. \u201cWe had major production problems: loss of financing, a change of producers, a lot of instability\u2026 At one point, I told my producer: I\u2019ll make the film with the budget we have,\u201d Jude says in an interview in Dracula\u2018s press notes. \u201cThat meant working with what we had: phones, cheap AI software, no lighting setups, a smaller crew. We had to invent solutions on the spot. And I think those constraints pushed the film into more interesting territory.\u201d You can make that decision for yourself when Dracula arrives in the U.S\u2026 eventually. As of right now, the film is scheduled to have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on Sunday, with no further festival screenings confirmed. Seems like Dracula might still need to be invited in. <\/p>\n Barbenheimer is back on top and Dracula\u2019s boat fails to make landfall at the weekend box office<\/a>The Last Voyage Of The Demeter review: New spin on Dracula has some bite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste Radu Jude, the Romanian filmmaker behind recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-46611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}