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Runway and Veo lock every clip to 24fps. Kling lets you pick 60. Nobody tells you what happens when you edit them into the same scene.

Actor Tori Thomas on set at the AI studio Promise in Los Angeles filming the studio’s newly announced AI-enabled horror film, Touch Grass. Photograph: Alex Welsh/The GuardianActor Tori Thomas on set at the AI studio Promise in Los Angeles filming the studio’s newly announced AI-enabled horror film, Touch Grass. Photograph: Alex Welsh/The Guardian

The controversy over AI-generated local movies actually tells us something useful about AI, says The Teenage Textbook Movie director Phillip Lim.

The most expensive 100% AI-generated film in cinematic history has been born, with a cost of 2 million US dollars.

Seth MacFarlane’s technology division ran its real-time visualization suite on Disney’s live-action remake, feeding oceans, skies, a treasure cave and a 500-foot lava monster into the camera so the production could judge blocking, lighting and framing against the finished world during the shoot.

Blackmagic Design recently announced that Sydney-based filmmaker James Demitri used the Blackmagic Camera application to shoot his feature-length horror film Fire Alive, which earned finalist honours at the 2026 SF3 Film Festival. The film was shot in just five days on an iPhone using only the Blackmagic Camera and practical lighting.

Every mainstream AI video model caps out somewhere between 8 and 15 seconds. Here’s the chaining workflow I actually run on Lost Garden, and where it quietly falls apart.

American soft power for the past century has had as a key mechanism its dominance of successive media transformations. Each successive communication technology produced a new grammar of global attention, and at each turn throughout much of the 20th and early 21st Centuries the core media infrastructure was American. However, since the rise of TikTok,…

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Next-generation AI film production company is the first studio ever to complete multiple genre titles in this new medium