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AI in film

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Tuoi TreVietnamBị AI cướp vai, 'nam thần phim ngắn' Trung Quốc phải về quê bán rau Từng liên tiếp đảm nhận vai nam chính trong các phim ngắn, Hứa Bằng bất ngờ mất cơ hội việc làm trước AI. Nam diễn viên phải về quê, phụ gia đình bán rau.

11.02

Film ThreatUSAThe Seven Books Fantasy is probably the genre best suited for artificial intelligence, but are we there yet? AI filmmaker Samo Rera takes on the...

11.02

Cartoon BrewChina’s First AI Feature Limps Through Second Weekend, Reaching Just $253,000 After 11 Days ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’ reportedly cost $1.5 million to produce, but Chinese box office forecasts suggest it won’t gross even a third of that.

11.02

YonhapKoreaContest for AI films, videos to take place in Seoul SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- A contest dedicated to films and videos made with gen...

10.27

Sixth ToneChinaChinese Users Find Little Money in ‘Selling’ Their Faces to AI Companies that let users license their likenesses for use in AI-made short dramas and ads promise high income in a short period. But users report few real financial gains.

10.15

Télérama — CinémaFranceAlexander Murphy, réalisateur d’“Irish Travellers” : “J’ai eu un énorme coup de cœur pour cette famille” Son dernier documentaire, chronique du quotidien de nomades irlandais sédentarisés, reflète l’amour du Franco-Irlandais pour les voyages et les rencontres qu’ils permettent.

11.01

VP LandApple Creator Studio Update Builds MotionVFX Into Final Cut Pro and Adds AI Assistants A free Apple Creator Studio update for existing subscribers builds MotionVFX effects, rotoscoping, tracking and color grading tools into Final Cut Pro for Mac, and adds beta AI assistants to Logic…

10.29

Curious RefugeHere’s the Best AI Workflow for a 2D + Live Action Film In this article and tutorial, we’ll show you how to combine 2D animated characters, props, and effects with live-action footage using AI.

09.29

Curious RefugeSeedance 2.5 is Now HD! | AI Film News In this article and video tutorial, we’ll test Seedance 2.5 in 1080p, along with a few other pieces of AI Film News.

08.21

Curious RefugeFree AI Videos Just Got Way Better | AI Film News In this article and video tutorial, we’ll dive into LTX 2.5 and see how it compares to MiniMax H3, along with a few other pieces of AI Film News.

08.16

AlloCiné — actu cinéFrance"J'ai dû me battre chaque jour" : il y a 26 ans, Russell Crowe "est devenu un homme" pendant le tournage de son meilleur film Avant de se battre dans l'arène, Russell Crowe s'était fait connaître dans L'étalon d'argent (1993), Programmé pour tuer (1995), ou L.A. Confidential (1997).

11.02

VP LandPika H3 Flex Is a New Open-Weight Video Model Built for Fast Iteration, With Output Up to 4K Pika released H3 Flex, an open-weight video model post-trained on MiniMax H3 that generates a 15-second clip with soundtrack in as little as 7 seconds, according to Pika's launch post.

10.29

The A.V. Club FilmUSAAI documentaries won’t let the dead rest We are reaching AI saturation. Small restaurants lean on generative AI to create generic menus, neighborhood flyers regularly use its weirdly soulless fonts and graphics to advertise events, and…

10.29

EkkoNordicsHollywoods AI-damptromle buldrer frem Retten til et værk er ikke det samme som retten til et job, skriver medieanalytiker Claus Bülow Christensen, som forbereder filmbranchen på langt færre jobs i fremtiden.

10.28

VP LandUtopai Launches PAI Production Platform and Utopai X Video Model, Linking Script Breakdowns to Generated Shots Utopai Studios has launched PAI, a production intelligence platform for film and television that breaks a screenplay into scenes and shots, alongside Utopai X, a new video generation model that…

10.26

VP Land'Cocaine Cowboys' 20th Anniversary Re-Release Adds AI-Generated Reenactments and a 4,000-Shot Visual Overhaul Billy Corben's 2006 documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" is getting a 20th anniversary re-release with new AI-generated reenactments from the AI studio New Territory Media, depicting events its former…

10.26

VP LandAI Feature 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' Debuts to Weak Ticket Sales in China as Low-Budget 'Niu Lai' Nears $10M Sanxingdui: Future Past, which its producers bill as China's first AI-generated theatrical film, opened in Chinese cinemas to weak ticket sales, as a post from ToonHive highlighted.

10.26

VP Landfal Launches FLUX 3 Max, a Post-Trained Video Model Benchmarked at About 12 Seconds per 10-Second Clip fal launched FLUX 3 Max, a post-trained version of Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 that generates a 10-second video in about 12 seconds, according to fal's FLUX 3 Max page.

10.26

VP LandHy-Nomas Is Tencent's New Open-Source Video World Model You Steer With Text and Camera Paths Tencent released Hy-Nomas, an open-source video world model that builds a scene one video segment at a time while you direct each new segment with text instructions, camera trajectories, or both…

10.25

VP LandBytePlus Introduces Seedance 2.5 4K With Lower-Cost 480p Draft Previews BytePlus introduced Seedance 2.5 4K, a video model whose Draft mode lets creators test shots on what the company calls lower-cost 480p previews before generating the final version in 4K, according to…

10.25

VP LandOmniHuman 2.0 Is BytePlus' New Avatar Model for Five-Minute, Audio-Driven Performances BytePlus launched OmniHuman 2.0, an avatar video generation model that turns a single image and an audio track into up to five minutes of performed video in one continuous shot, according to its…

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