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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

Three weeks ago I pulled up my own time log to see how many hours the last Lost Garden episode had actually cost me. I expected a small number. That’s the whole pitch of generative video: less time, more output. It wasn’t small, and it wasn’t where I thought it would be. Generating the shots…

Washington DC [US], August 11 (ANI): Hollywood star Brad Pitt is keeping an open mind about the growing use of artificial intelligence in filmmaking, saying AI, if used as a tool, could help more mid-budget movies get made while acknowledging concerns about its impact on actors and their performances, according to Variety. The Oscar-winning actor…

Trace Project — a movie created entirely with artificial intelligence (AI) — had its sole public screening at Golden Village VivoCity on National Day, drawing polarising views from movie-goers and creatives alike.