At the Shanghai Film Festival, AI Backlot, iPhone-shot shorts and VR show how China is turning cinema into pure technological production.
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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.
Peter Weir receives the first AFTRS Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sydney Film Festival: a tribute to a cinema capable of giving shape to mystery without consuming it.
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.
Dreams of Violets debuts at the 2026 Tribeca Festival: a live-action film generated with AI, 74-75 minutes long, with a reported budget of $2,000 and plenty of controversy.
Seth Rogen attacks screenwriters who use AI, while many Hollywood workers are training algorithms just to survive.
Darren Aronofsky defends the AI project On This Day… 1776 at Cannes, developed with Primordial Soup ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
At Cannes, Peter Jackson receives the honorary Palme d’Or from Elijah Wood and defends AI as a tool: but Gollum reopens the problem of the digital actor.
Alex Proyas relaunches Heaven at the Marché du Film with Ex Machina Studios and K5: a sci-fi satire about the digital afterlife, produced with an AI pipeline.
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