Today's stories Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers (The Information) T Techmeme 14h ago Silicon Valley is getting the Hollywood treatment this fall. Find out which tech-founder movie is right for you. B Business Insider 16h ago Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary premieres in Venice with an AI-simulated interview T The Next Web 22h ago This week Paul Schrader Would Rather Use AI Than Just Not Be Racist G Gizmodo 3d ago Filmmakers tout AI's use in Hollywood H Hacker News 6d ago To what extent is AI being used in movies and TV today? H Hacker News 7d ago This month The Media Show B BBC 8d ago Google's failed attempt to license Hollywood IP for its AI tools H Hacker News 9d ago Gal Godot Starring in Heavily AI-Generated Movie About the Glories of Bitcoin F Futurism 9d ago Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die: Sam Rockwell Lifts an Absurdist AI Sci-Fi Satire H Hacker News 11d ago The Cully Hill Boys – 110 minute AI film H Hacker News 13d ago The Fight Over Whether the ‘Humankind 2’ Trailer Is Slop Is Its Own Kind of AI Damage G Gizmodo 14d ago Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting with AI H Hacker News 14d ago Why AI In Media And Entertainment Can Help Creatives Get Funded F Forbes 14d ago Gossip Goblin Wants His Films To Outlast The AI Label F Forbes 15d ago Quiet on set. How AI transformed China's microdrama scene H Hacker News 19d ago ‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs T The Guardian 19d ago Kavan The Kid Builds AI Film Characters He Owns And An Audience Hollywood Wants F Forbes 23d ago AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian) T Techmeme 24d ago One Night Only makes fun of purity culture, yet perpetuates it M Mashable Aug 7 Silo Season 3, episode 6 gives us a huge clue about the algorithm M Mashable Aug 7 Quote of the day by filmmaker James Cameron on AI: 'All of human art and human experience put into a blender' — dismissing the rise of AI in creative industries T TechRadar Aug 3 I'm not convinced that Stuart Fails to Save the Universe titles are 'AI slop' — in fact HBO Max creators have teased that there really is a hidden message in the changes T TechRadar Aug 3 Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac T The Guardian Aug 3 Lioness season 3 is Taylor Sheridan's most scathing, brutal, and AI-wary outing yet — but the new Paramount+ series is still making sure that the Yellowstone creator is the action hero of the hour T TechRadar Jul 31 Silo Season 3, episode 5 ending explained: Who is Per Stensen? M Mashable Jul 31 Stuart Fails to Save the Universe episode 2 has my favorite surprise Big Bang Theory cameo yet, and it's not the one you're thinking — and there's a hilarious hidden reason why it works T TechRadar Jul 31 I asked Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan what movie makes the best 'companion piece' for the classic sci-fi franchise — and her answer is a stark warning for AI users T TechRadar Jul 30 Premation P Product Hunt Jul 30 Filmmaking Beyond the ‘Slop’ of Generative AI C CNET Jul 30 Quote of the day by Tom Hanks on AI in cinema: 'Without a doubt, people will be able to tell. But the question is, will they care?' — a cynical observation about modern film audiences T TechRadar Jul 29 Neill Blomkamp Is Making It Look Like AI Is the Last Resort for Filmmakers With Failing Careers F Futurism Jul 23 Darren Aronofsky’s Company That Makes Very Bad AI Movies Just Raised a Ton of Investor Money G Gizmodo Jul 23 Netflix used AI in 300 shows. Its biggest director calls AI a Trojan horse. T The Next Web Jul 20 ‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ T TechCrunch Jul 19 “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” Will Use AI to De-Age Actors F Futurism Jul 19 We’d Rather Live Through the Trojan War Than Spend 135 Minutes Watching an Entirely AI Version of “The Odyssey” F T Covered by 2 sources Jul 15 George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts T The Guardian Jul 15 Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence T The Guardian Jul 14 Christopher Nolan Unloads on AI Slop F T Covered by 2 sources Jul 12 AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has a movie coming out. Spare us this future | Dave Schilling T The Guardian Jul 11 Robota review – machines on the march in next-gen version of sci-fi classic T The Guardian Jul 10 The Irritating Phenomenon Known As ‘Tilly Norwood’ Is Getting Some Sort of Movie Now G F Covered by 2 sources Jul 7 Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI T The Guardian Jul 6 A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google F Futurism Jun 29 Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership T G T Covered by 3 sources Jun 22 Art Directors Guild Chides Martin Scorsese Over His Newfound Fondness for AI G Gizmodo Jun 10 Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards T The Guardian Jun 3 ‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making? T The Guardian Jun 3 Martin Scorsese Feels the Power of the Dark Side, Jumps on the AI Bandwagon G Gizmodo Jun 2 Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI T TechCrunch Jun 2 Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics T The Guardian Jun 1 Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking T The Next Web May 25 ‘We’re expanding the cinematic toolbox’: AI fault lines on show at Cannes T The Guardian May 24 Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model T The Next Web May 22 Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point. T The Next Web May 17 John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow T The Guardian May 16 ‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era T The Guardian May 14 Film industry cannot fight rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore T The Guardian May 12 The Academy has not banned AI from the Oscars. It has defined what it means to be the author of a film. T The Next Web May 3 That's everything we have on Film Photography & Animation right now