Over the last few years, as Hollywood restructured to meet the demand for streaming entertainment and as major businesses saw fit to merge, the entertainment industry whittled down budgets, shed jobs and in some cases outsourced work overseas. This painful moment of contraction happened to coincide with leaps forward in generative AI like the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the same year that Netflix, and the rest of Hollywood, began shifting their streaming models to focus on profitability.

Hollywood veteran and award-winning creative director Curt Doty has created CLOWD which will invite AI filmmakers from around the world to submit their short films to an international competition and festival built for what’s next. Unlike other AI festivals, CLOWD puts creators first—respecting IP, integrating crowd-sourced voting, leveraging qualified judges, and drawing on the expertise of seasoned indie film festival operators.

Hollywood loves efficiency. So when generative AI started being used to produce loglines, concept art, rough cuts and even serviceable dialogue, the industry did what it always does: It experimented.

But AI is not just a creative tool. It is a chain-of-title event. And chain of title determines whether your film can be financed, insured, distributed and defended in court.

This is where the AI hype collides with copyright law.

Soulscape 2026 will host 200 creators selected from thousands of applicants worldwide to convene in the city for the summit, which will feature keynote conversations, panels, tech demos, masterclasses, an AI career fair, mentorship and a red carpet finale. The centerpiece of the event will be a 48-hour short film sprint that will see the participants producing an original AI-fueled project that will be judged by a panel of experts.

“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” OpenAI’s Sora team said in a statement Tuesday.

As Hollywood remains locked in labor and legal battles over generative AI, Filmart is showcasing Asia’s increasingly full-throated embrace of the technology as both a foregone conclusion and the industry’s next growth engine — with 28 talks devoted to the subject this year.

The upcoming Bitcoin biopic from director Doug Liman and producer Ryan Kavanaugh has disclosed in a U.K. casting notice that the indie film may use AI to “adjust” some performances. Actors will also perform on a “markerless performative capture stage and not in any locations, using new Al technologies.”

Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg spoke out against the use of AI technology when used in creative endeavors in an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin on Friday. Asked how he viewed AI’s utility as part of the filmmaking process, Spielberg said, “I’ve never used AI on any of my films yet,” to which the audience erupted with cheers and applause.

For many in the entertainment industry, artificial intelligence is a boogeyman poised to steal the soul of Hollywood. But Netflix and Ben Affleck have seemingly found a way to embrace the technology without freaking everyone out.

Netflix on Thursday acquired Affleck’s InterPositive, which said it provides AI tools for video post-production, for an undisclosed sum. The startup said it built its own model using footage it shot itself, training the algorithm to think like a filmmaker or editor. Other creatives can then feed dailies into the model, creating a “mini-model” that’s optimized specifically for that film or show. It specializes in post-production fixes like adding missing shots, correcting lighting or enhancing backgrounds.

Studying at the film school where Oscar-nominated "Sinners" director Ryan Coogler honed his craft, SiJia Zheng dreams of winning an Academy Award.

Now with the recent developments in artificial intelligence, he can see a shortcut to achieving his ambition.

"That's a chance for beginners like me who can use AI to just make a film and to announce to the world that I have the ability to be a director," he told AFP.

OpenAI plans to soon launch its AI video generator Sora ​in ChatGPT, The Information reported ‌on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Welcome to the “Tillyverse” — the digital world of controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood that its creator says will allow AI characters to collaborate and build artificial acting careers.

The CEO of Particle6, Eline van der Velden, announced the “rapid expansion” of Tilly Norwood and its universe on Monday in a press release.

AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industry’s north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content.

A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the tropical din, as he approaches a shrine at the base of a starfruit tree. He bends to inspect a framed black-and-white photograph of a woman, her hair in a 1950s side part.

Matthew McConaughey weighed in on what the future of Hollywood will look like as the industry embraces artificial intelligence, saying actors should prepare for the day that they’ll have to compete against computer-generated personalities at the Academy Awards.

ByteDance is working to strengthen safeguards in its Seedance 2.0 video-generation tool after it received global blowback for alleged intellectual property (IP) violations, the Chinese short-video giant said on Sunday.

The controversy focuses on the TikTok owner’s alleged use of copyrighted content to train its artificial intelligence model, as videos of Hollywood celebrities, Disney characters and comic book heroes generated by Seedance have flooded the web in recent days.

Unlocking Film Production: Roger Avary on AI’s Impact

Roger Avary, co-writer of “Pulp Fiction,” recently shared his stunning transition from traditional filmmaking to launching his AI production company, General Cinema Dynamics. Here’s what he revealed on the “Joe Rogan Experience”:

Grace comes to the major studio as generative AI poses both risk and opportunities for evolving media and entertainment content production across Hollywood.

Lionsgate has named Kathleen Grace as its first chief AI officer to lead the studio’s strategy for leveraging new generative AI technology in filmmaking.

The studio behind those AI Coca-Cola ads launched a master class session to teach people about the technology.

While everyone in Hollywood is talking about artificial intelligence, few truly understand its capabilities. Secret Level wants to change that.

John Gaeta, the VFX veteran who won a visual-effects Oscar for "The Matrix," believes there's a potentially huge audience for curated, high-quality films and series created with the help of generative AI technologies.

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky used AI to travel back in time 250 years ago to the American Revolution. But he tapped real-life human actors to provide voices in documenting key events of the country's foundational conflict.