Festivals, tools and independent creators are building their own supply chain around AI cinema, while the old industry protects control, rents and slow decision-making.
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At the Shanghai Film Festival, AI Backlot, iPhone-shot shorts and VR show how China is turning cinema into pure technological production.
With Synthetic Sincerity, Marc Isaacs uses a fake AI research project to strike at glossy documentary filmmaking: ordinary people disappear, and what remains are avatars and celebrities.
Amazon Drops Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman Biopic, After OpenAI Partnership: “It Will Be Better Served by Another Studio”
Epic connects Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and generative AI. Skins, assets and creative labor enter a new industrial phase.
Robert Gaudette wins the Runway AI Film Festival with a short film generated by AI: art, labor and cinema enter a new industrial zone.
At Tribeca 2026, Dear Upstairs Neighbors shows a concrete path for AI in cinema: custom-built models, artists in control, and carefully managed workflows.
The United States is considering public stakes in major AI companies. Between OpenAI, Anthropic, IPOs and dividends, artificial intelligence is becoming a matter of national power.
Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio designed to license characters such as Optimus Prime and Mr. Potato Head: the future of entertainment is becoming interactive.
The crushing success of Backrooms and Obsession against Star Wars shows that the new Hollywood will be born from YouTube, AI, microdrama and Big Tech platforms.
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