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Elon Musk’s ‘Odyssey’ and the Coming Mockbuster Wave
Grok doesn’t need to beat Nolan. It just needs to ride Universal’s $125 million marketing campaign
George Lucas Says Hollywood Can’t Stop AI. He Doesn’t Think It Should.
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.
Tilly Norwood Gets Her First Movie — and Hollywood’s AI Actor Experiment Gets Real
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.
Cannes Market Signals That AI Is Becoming an International Sales Requirement
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.
Tribeca's AI Film Premiere Forces Hollywood to Separate Technology From Storytelling
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.
Cannes Turns AI Into the Festival’s Most Awkward Conversation
Darren Aronofsky, Google DeepMind and AI-assisted films made the Croisette a showcase for both creative experimentation and industry unease
Cannes Programmers Debate AI Disclosure Ahead of 2026 Festival
Cannes Film Festival discussions reflect growing uncertainty over how to evaluate films that incorporate generative tools without clear industry standards
Runway Pushes Generative Video Toward Filmmaking
The February release of Gen-3 production tools targets professional creators
Hollywood’s First Real AI Credit Fight
Why a quiet end-title dispute matters more than any demo
Why Hollywood Still Hasn’t Released a Fully AI-Generated Film
Despite the tools, studios are refusing to own the outcome
Fade to Black: Hollywood’s AI-Era Jobs Collapse Is Starting
Amazon plans a 75 percent automated workforce. Now full human creativity may soon only exist for a few indie weirdos
Wonder Studios and the Art of Teaching a Machine to Direct
How a U.K. startup is building Hollywood’s first AI-native studio
Sora 2 Shook Hollywood. This AI CEO is Helping the Industry ‘Take a F-ing Stand’
Backed by CAA and Comcast Ventures, Bryn Mooser and co-founder Natasha Lyonne’s Asteria is an AI model safeguarding IP in an era of copyright chaos
Sora 2 and the Day Hollywood Went to War
Forget Tilly Norwood. OpenAI’s new cinematic model can fake anyone and anything — and power players finally draw their line
Karan Johar Slams AI “Remix” of Bollywood Film Raanjhanaa, Calling It a Violation of Creative Intent
The filmmaker Karan Johar ’s rebuke of an AI-generated alternate ending for Raanjhanaa ignites a wider debate in Bollywood over authorship, consent, and the future of legacy film catalogs.
OpenAI’s $30M Animated Film is Coming. Pixar Should Be Worried
‘Critterz’ will be made in 9 months and debut at Cannes ’26. The existential stakes couldn’t be higher
Showrunner to Recreate Orson Welles’ Missing 43 Minutes: AI Meets Film History in a Risky Experiment
The Amazon-backed AI studio behind user-generated TV episodes turns its tools toward The Magnificent Ambersons, blending live action and generative reconstruction to restore what Hollywood once destroyed.
Actor Ike Barinholtz Eyed to Play Elon Musk in Guadagnino’s AI Satire Artificial
Actor Ike Barinholtz may take on the role of tech titan Elon Musk in Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming comedic drama about OpenAI’s tumultuous real-life power struggle.
The AI Making Indie Sci-Fi Budgets Possible (James Cameron’s Team Agrees)
Actor Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic’s Wonder Dynamics streamlines VFX, cuts costs and is backed by the software giant that helped power ‘Avatar’
Monica Barbaro to Co-Star in Netflix’s AI-Centered Film ‘Artificial’ with Andrew Garfield
Actress Monica Barbaro collaborates with partner Andrew Garfield and director Luca Guadagnino on a feature film exploring AI’s real-world drama at OpenAI, blending personal chemistry with emerging tech narratives.