The Motion Picture Association has secured stronger copyright protections from ByteDance for its AI video and image tools. The agreement marks a rare negotiated outcome in Hollywood's ongoing fight over unauthorized use of its intellectual property.

A Los Angeles Times review of Hollywood job postings found more than one in 10 open positions was likely connected to artificial intelligence, revealing a widening gap between the industry’s public caution and its internal investment.

The Star Wars creator says artificial intelligence will make movies easier to produce and compares the current anxiety to earlier technological shifts, putting one of Hollywood’s great technical innovators firmly on the pro-AI side.

Particle 6 is building a feature around the synthetic performer who infuriated Hollywood last year. Misaligned will combine AI with human writers, directors and editors, turning an industry provocation into an actual production test.

June wasn't the month Hollywood decided whether to embrace artificial intelligence. It was the month the industry's biggest players quietly accepted that AI is becoming part of filmmaking—and shifted their attention toward who will control it.

Google's investment in independent studio A24 is more than another AI partnership—it signals a shift from Silicon Valley building tools for Hollywood to filmmakers helping shape the technology from the inside.

AI was no longer a sideshow at this year's Marché du Film. From financing presentations to localization platforms, distributors and sales agents increasingly treated artificial intelligence as infrastructure rather than experimentation.

By taking an equity stake in Runway and launching a joint development program, Lionsgate is signaling that generative AI is no longer just a production tool—it is becoming part of the studio's long-term business strategy.

Dreams of Violets, the first AI-generated live-action feature accepted into a major film festival, arrived at Tribeca with modest expectations but sparked one of the industry's biggest creative debates of the summer.