Film30 Sep 2026
Pete Davidson says AI stood in for far-flung locations on Doug Liman's Bitcoin film
The actor says AI replaced global location shoots on Bitcoin, avoiding a $250 million budget, while crew, extras and performances stayed real.
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Film30 Sep 2026
Kenyan-Swiss director Damien Hauser on building Memory of Princess Mumbi with AI-generated worlds
A Venice-premiered Kenyan sci-fi romance used AI for its future world while arguing against AI on screen; its director explains the trade-offs, including skin-tone errors.
Film30 Sep 2026
Skyrocket Studios says it is making an all-AI sci-fi pilot starring Lee Majors and the late Nichelle Nichols
A press release says a Manhattan Transfer pilot is being made fully with AI, de-ageing Lee Majors and casting Nichelle Nichols with her estate's backing.
Film30 Sep 2026
Short Shorts Film Festival adds a generative AI showcase to its Tokyo autumn screenings
Tokyo's Oscar-qualifying shorts festival pairs its autumn prize-winners with a CapCut AI film programme and 30 new AI-made shorts about the city.
Film30 Sep 2026
HBO Max docuseries puts an AI-rebuilt Aileen Wuornos face on the actress playing her
ID and HBO Max's Aileen Wuornos docuseries lays an AI-built likeness of the executed killer over an actress, citing transcripts and consent from the living.
Film30 Sep 2026
SKF brings back an AI-recreated Greta Garbo to front its ball-bearing campaign
SKF's campaign revives Greta Garbo with AI to sell frictionless bearings, and says her family and estate company backed the recreation.
Film30 Sep 2026
Chinese AI-assisted animated feature Shenhua Shigu wraps, with 33 AI agents on the crew
Co-producer Mininglamp says 33 AI agents worked beside a small human crew on Shenhua Shigu, and details how the team kept AI output in check.
Film30 Sep 2026
Bengali streamer Hoichoi sets up AI studio LoglineAI and plans its first fully AI-generated show
Founder Vishnu Mohta says LoglineAI's first AI-made show arrives with Hoichoi's Season 10 slate, alongside a new microdrama and audio platform.
Film29 Sep 2026
Korean studios answer China's AI short-drama flood with live-action and AI hybrids
KT Studio Genie and CJ ENM are pairing real performances with AI-made sets and effects to compete with China's mostly AI-generated short dramas.
Film29 Sep 2026
Victor Vũ and Nguyễn Quang Dũng join a plan to make AI-assisted films, including 200 short dramas a year
Vietnamese directors Victor Vũ and Nguyễn Quang Dũng are working with a firm planning 200 AI-assisted short films a year from 2027, with AI also used for a new animated feature.
Film29 Sep 2026
Ho Chi Minh City's state TV film studio makes AI series 'Bai San' with CapCut for HTV
TFS is adapting a fantasy novel into a 15-episode AI short series with CapCut's support, for HTV, as Vietnam tightens rules on AI films released online.
Film29 Sep 2026
Spanish animators premiere La Triste Figura, an 11-minute Don Quixote short built with AI video tools
Guillermo Miranda and Javier de la Chica made their windmill comedy with about a dozen people and 1,200 Seedance generations, and say the tools still have real limits.
Film29 Sep 2026
Neighbours archive to be recut into vertical micro-episodes with an AI tool, starting with Margot Robbie's storyline
RoseBerry Media will use its RedSnapper AI tool to turn Donna Freedman storylines into about 150 minutes of phone-first episodes for its epis service.
Film29 Sep 2026
Viral clips of an 80-year-old Sylvester Stallone doing his own stunts are AI fakes
Clips of the 80-year-old actor leaping through explosions drew millions of views, but tell-tale errors show they were made with generative AI.
Film29 Sep 2026
Korean dementia singing show Unforgettable Duet adds AI-generated memory images in season two
Something Special will use generative AI to turn participants' photos and interviews into personalised memory pictures, and take the format to Mipcom.
Film29 Sep 2026
Robot artist Ai-Da is credited as executive producer and co-director of a four-part documentary series
Korea's Kaja and UK's Zig Zag will pitch Trust Me, I'm a Robot at Mipcom, with the Oxford-built robot also composing its music.
Film29 Sep 2026
Mango TV airs Never Fall Behind, an AI-generated micro-drama about the Red Army's Long March
The ten-part series, made on Mango TV's own LumeCreate platform, recreates Long March terrain in Hunan without sets or location shoots.
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Film29 Sep 2026
Joey Wong licenses her younger likeness for an AI-made game promo recreating her classic roles
Joey Wong let a game use her younger image for an AI promo recreating her famous roles, drawing mixed reviews and questions about consent and control.
Film29 Sep 2026
China's AI films multiply as costs fall, but none has yet become a hit
As Sanxingdui: Future Past heads for cinemas, studios and hobbyists pile into AI features, but revenue is thin and no breakout has arrived.
Film29 Sep 2026
Chinese creators turn AI short dramas into home-made Korean, American and Japanese series
AI-made dramas styled as Korean, US and Japanese series are drawing huge audiences on Douyin, driven by MCNs and cheap video tools, amid plagiarism complaints.
Film28 Sep 2026
AI film The Mother's Monster passes 53 million YouTube views on a budget under $2,000
Pakistani creator Zahid Iqbal made the AI dragon fantasy in under 72 hours for $2,000; Arab critics debate what such films mean for cinema and festivals.
Film28 Sep 2026
AI short film The Gifted wins the $3.5 million Future Vision XPRIZE and funding for a feature
The short about a boy who rebuilds his late mother won $2.5 million toward a feature plus the audience vote at Moonshots Live.
Film28 Sep 2026
Harry Potter producer David Barron backs an AI-generated Call of the Wild told from the dog's view
Simon Rumley will direct an AI-generated adaptation of Jack London's novel at studio nmatic, pitched as the first faithful telling from Buck's point of view.
Film28 Sep 2026
Viral AI animation set to Sade's Smooth Operator draws accusations of borrowed character designs
An AI short on X drew criticism for its jumble of styles, a boy who looks like Song of the Sea's Ben and muddled plotting, adding to animation's pushback against AI.
