17 Oct 2026 · 2,865 works · 700 news indexed
News · Film
Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
Film16 Oct 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt the actor said AI is fine for improving films, not for replacing actors, and that he could accept an AI version of himself continuing after him.
Film13 Oct 2026
Film12 Oct 2026
Banderas will play Hernán Cortés in an AI-powered feature from Utopai Studios and Ex Machina Studios, now in production in Paris for release next year.
Film12 Oct 2026
DuVernay's closing-night documentary is criticised for apparent AI animation of photographs of Black Americans; she says it recreates a stereoscopic look.
Film10 Oct 2026
Cage told New York Comic Con he declined to sign off on AI use for Spider-Noir, tying Amazon's stance to its OpenAI investment, after Prime Video cancelled the show.
Film10 Oct 2026
Ay Yapım's AI studio made the Çukur prequel with AI-generated visuals over human performances and voices; Prime Video holds global rights, with no release date yet.
Film9 Oct 2026
At a BFI London Film Festival talk, Boyle said an actor played Thatcher with her face swapped in by AI, and that her estate was not asked.
Film9 Oct 2026
Fox Nation's three-part Houdini: Back from the Dead uses AI-generated imagery over actors, licensed archive and human-written scripts, and premieres on 14 October.
Film9 Oct 2026
Rajkummar Rao says the team rushed the first poster for his Sourav Ganguly biopic Dada after viewers saw it as AI-made, and that AI should only support filmmakers.
Film7 Oct 2026
At the Busan festival, the Chinese actress said AI-made short dramas leave no impression and that human acting cannot be copied by the technology.
Film7 Oct 2026
AI generated over 95% of China's microdramas in early 2026, at a fraction of the cost, as iQiyi pivots and Singapore studios follow, leaving actors idle and likeness rules tightening.
Film6 Oct 2026
Fable has moved the YouTuber Gossip Goblin's animated anthology to a 4 December limited release and will campaign for a Best Animated Feature nomination, with the trailer now in theaters.
Film6 Oct 2026
Guadagnino's film about Sam Altman's 2023 OpenAI ousting premiered at NYFF to mostly positive reactions, after Amazon dropped it; Neon opens it on 25 December.
Film4 Oct 2026
Shestak's The First Honest Day beat 8,067 entries from 125 countries at Kazakhstan's debut AI film festival, which handed out $1m in prizes from a $2m fund.
Film2 Oct 2026
Tokyo's AI Film Festival Japan returns 31 Oct to 2 Nov with 700 entries from 60+ countries and prizes backed by CapCut and ElevenLabs.
Film1 Oct 2026
A US awards body for AI filmmaking picked 34 films from 84 countries, with nine prizes to be handed out at an LA summit on 24 October.
Film1 Oct 2026
Eliza McNitt, Secret Level's Jason Zada and Artlist's Ori Winokur argued at TheGrill that AI should support human actors and directors, not replace them.
Film1 Oct 2026
The AI-only film festival from Nice and Cannes holds a free-entry Buenos Aires edition in TecWeek, sending its winner to the April 2027 final.
Film1 Oct 2026
Twenty-five AI-made films picked from 8,067 entries compete in Astana for $1 million in prizes, with a further $1 million set aside to invest in AI teams.
Film1 Oct 2026
The festival says it picked 40 films from over 700 entries for its October event, with masterclasses from AI studio founders and a hackathon.
Film1 Oct 2026
Affleck says tools from his startup InterPositive, now owned by Netflix, were used on the film, but he refuses to say which scenes to keep the illusion.
Film1 Oct 2026
Ten AI shorts screened in Adana's competition, and their directors said cheap tools let them film scripts no one would fund.
Film1 Oct 2026
An animated feature billed as Turkey's first AI film opens with a heritage cast that includes Denizli's famous rooster.
Film1 Oct 2026
In an Instagram video, Gordon-Levitt said Particle 6's AI 'actress' is a made character built from uncredited human work, so it cannot give a performance.
