The week in generative media · Oct 19 – Oct 26, 2026
China's first fully AI-generated theatrical feature film, "Sanxingdui: Future Past," opened on Friday to a tepid box-office response despite more than 10,000 scheduled screening...
Travis Knight, CEO of stop-motion studio Laika and director of the upcoming Masters of the Universe adaptation, has drawn a firm line against generative AI in filmmaking. Speaki...
Grok Imagine has released the first episode of an AI-generated adaptation of The Odyssey, produced in collaboration with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. Running just sev...
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AI video tools like Runway's Act-One and Act-Two can transfer a human performance onto a generated character—capturing motion and timing from a single-camera phone take—but that...
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A new analysis by Frank Houbre of Outerframe Studio cuts through the marketing around AI video "draft mode," arguing that the feature doesn't reduce render costs — it only reduc...
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Kling has pulled ahead of Runway in both commercial scale and core video-generation performance. The Chinese platform, backed by Kuaishou, is running at an annualized revenue pa...
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Canva has launched its first in-house image generation model, rolling it out to all users on the platform. The company says the model delivers improved performance and greater c...
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