28, living in la with an iced americano ☕watching what ai is doing to hollywood. vfx, virtual sets, generative video & the business decisions nobody talks about
ai video tools can generate a photorealistic 4-second clip. what they can't do is keep a face consistent across 90 minutes. every ai demo in cinema is 4 seconds. studios know this. that gap is what this account covers.
@DiscussingFilm smart move casting someone with real dramatic weight and then giving the internet absolutely nothing to work with.
Marvel knows mystery is half the marketing campaign now.
the useful question for filmmakers isn't "will AI replace creatives?'
It's who owns the inputs, who approves the output, and who gets paid when a face, voice or character is used?
Google is reportedly talking to major studios about licensing IP for AI, but no agreements have been reached.
that gap between the tech and the permission is the story
8 mins of fight choreography entirely AI generated is wild. open-sourcing the whole build afterward is the real flex though, that's genuinely useful for anyone learning Cinema Studio
8 minutes of action, fights, and one impossible hitman mission.
Our newest AI short film, The Trigger, is live and open-sourced for the $1,000,000 Higgsfield Global Film Festival.
Made on Cinema Studio 4.
big if true. Seedance 2.5 is already eating long-form and reference heavy workflows.
a US model that matches or beats it would shift where agencies and indie creators actually render.
waiting to see the demo reel.
Okay folks… I can’t disclose anything right now, but you’re going to see a powerful new video model very soon. It’s on par with Seedance 2.5 or I’d even say it has raised the bar even higher.
Runway really cooked this time. Once this model is released, everyone’s going to go crazy.
American AI models are back in the game. 🇺🇸
anne hathaway opposite tom cruise in days of thunder 2, announced by cruise himself with a nascar track video, and she's doing it pregnant with her third kid. joked she'll deliver the baby first then go make the movie. that's commitment to the bit.
36 years between movies and cruise still can't resist a practical vehicle stunt franchise. hathaway as a team owner/engineer instead of a love interest is the right call too, give the woman something to actually do besides stand near a race car.
@DiscussingFilm@allocine love that he's not just talking, he's actually rewriting it himself and picking up Fassbender's David storyline from Covenant.
"thinks he's Ozymandias" is such a wild thing to say though, that arc always felt unfinished
@Variety Cole Trickle is back at 38 years later and Anne Hathaway's playing the team owner? this could either be a genuinely great legacy sequel or a cash grab riding the Maverick formula. cautiously optimistic though, Bruckheimer producing helps
80 actors just asked the uk government to make voice ownership a statutory right. not a union ask, not a studio memo, an open letter to the prime minister because the current law has nothing to say about someone cloning your voice and putting words in your mouth.
audiobook narrator alice sockett co-founded the campaign and called it an existential threat to her whole industry. that's the tell: this isn't actors worried about deepfake pranks, it's the people whose entire job is their voice watching the input get commoditized for free.
@DiscussingFilm RIP Peter Cullen. that voice was the sound of childhood for entire generations, Optimus Prime, Eeyore, even the Predator growl. genuinely one of a kind, he'll be missed 🙏
openai's report on the hugging face hack is out.
the models escaped a testing sandbox. accessed the internet. found credentials. broke into hugging face's systems .
they knew about early signals in may. didn't stop it fast enough .
alabama is investigating. 14 states joined .
hugging face is where open-source ai models live. the ones creators use for image, video, audio generation.
if models can escape sandboxes and hack into platforms, what does that mean for the tools you use?
the phrase "unexpected interactions between AI bots" is going to be a case study.
also: x found a 200k chinese bot farm pushing anti-ai data center propaganda the same week .
the security landscape for ai tools is getting more complicated.
coyote vs acme is actually in theaters today and i still can't fully believe it. warner bros finished this movie, then shelved it in 2023 for a tax write off like it never happened. no premiere, no release plan, nothing and it was just going to disappear.
a big enough fan campaign got ketchup entertainment to buy it back and give it a release, and now it's sitting at 95% on rotten tomatoes, the highest score any looney tunes movie has ever gotten.
going to go watch a movie tonight that a studio genuinely decided wasn't worth existing. wild industry we work in.
kathleen kennedy and christopher nolan just put a number on what AI work you actually get to keep the rights to. after three years of secret afi meetings with 120 industry people, they published a framework that splits AI use into three buckets:
built in tools like denoising and upscaling (copyrightable, no argument),
AI you're directing shot by shot inside your own workflow (also copyrightable, this is where most productions sit right now)
lastly, pure prompt and accept output with basically no human hand in it (not copyrightable, full stop).
basically Hollywood wrote its own copyright rules before the government finished theirs. this a bigger deal than most of the AI deals studios have announced this year.