Goodfellas CEO Vincent Maraval said at San Sebastián's fifth Creative Investors' Conference, co-organized with CAA Media Finance, that AI cut eight days of production on a major battlefield scene in M…
The San Sebastian festival's Zinemaldia Startup Challenge selected 10 finalists from 68 submissions, its largest field since launching in 2019, to pitch on Sept. 24 during Zinemaldia & Technology. The…
The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the Busan International Film Festival's official market, finalized its 2026 lineup for the 21st edition running Oct. 10-13, led by InnoAsia's 44 organizations …
Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group filed a new 45-page lawsuit against Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging the AI music-generation company's new…
Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of generative AI chatbot company Character.AI, as its first chief technology officer, effective Oct. 2, reporting directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Disney said a n…
Netflix spent nearly $600 million to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive in March and has since disclosed that roughly 300 programs across its library have incorporated generative AI, accor…
AGBO partner Chris Brearton and chief scientific officer Dominic Hughes will deliver a keynote titled "Technology and Storytelling" at TIFFCOM on Oct. 29, moderated by Variety Asia editor Naman Ramach…
Lightstorm Vision, the company founded by filmmaker James Cameron, has acquired Outsyders, an AI and machine-learning 3D production and post-production technology company founded in 2024 by Paul Becke…
President Donald Trump said in a Monday Truth Social post that the only "control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," mocking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as "prete…
Kling AI hosted a panel titled "A New Creative Paradigm: Consistent, Cinematic AI Video Powered by Kling AI" on the opening morning of the inaugural TIFF: The Market, where "Minibots" producer Diane S…
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs signed an expansive licensing agreement under which ElevenLabs will launch an AI-powered music platform built on UMG's artist catalog, letting fans remix and mash …
International media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, an AI production company, Variety reported. Higuchi-Zitzmann said the v…
AWS launched new video capabilities on Thursday, including Elemental MediaPackage Dynamic Multiview, which lets streamers deliver up to 11 live feeds in a single personalized channel without per-layou…
Former Telepool CEO Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, a Munich- and Berlin-based AI-native film studio developing premium films, high-end TV series …
Jacob Coxon, a former AI researcher at Anthropic, resigned on Tuesday, warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are 'gambling with our lives' because researchers 'earnestly believe that it could kill us all …
Amazon's Prime Video is launching an AI-powered lip-sync feature for dubbed content, starting with the German series 'Maxton Hall' Seasons 1 and 2 globally in English on Wednesday, with Season 3 to fo…
Suno released its new 'v6' suite of AI music models on Wednesday, built on licensing deals with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, with revenue sharing for artists and labels, as the company seeks …
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced a €500 million ($581 million) film industry investment commitment by the Republic of Korea at the Lumière Summit on Monday, matching France's pledge, and…
Balanga has secured its first international sales for the history documentary 'Beasts of the Colosseum,' with ZDF/Terra X in Germany, SVT in Sweden, and Radio-Canada acquiring the film ahead of its sc…
French President Emmanuel Macron said at the Lumière Summit that YouTube, which now outranks Netflix in over 20 international markets, should be required to help finance local content and support crea…