sanxingdui
Sanxingdui: Future Past flops with $181,000 in China
Bona Film Group spent more than RMB10 million, about $1.5 million, on the first AI feature to win a Chinese theatrical release permit.
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Resilia
Resilia ran 8,000-plus AI cartoon musical ads, CNN reports
CNN reports the oregano brand ran thousands of fully sung animated ads, several on premises it describes as racist or antisemitic, and that Google and Meta removed some.
kling
Kling 4.0's API is live at 11 to 24 cents a second
The same model runs from $0.106 a second at 720p on Luma's Ultra plan to $0.237 at 1080p on Plus, against Kling's own $0.157 and $0.235.
runway
Runway Ads comes to every paid plan at no extra fee
Runway made Runway Ads available on every paid plan in an October 27 post, after announcing the tool and its Meta, Google and TikTok loop on September 30.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield Cinema Studio 4.0 builds 30-second AI scenes
A new Director's Panel sets genre, camera, lens and character emotion before generation, and each generation can now draw on up to 50 references, up from nine.
genspark
Genspark Media Studio ships an agent that edits video
The agent plans and edits, runs Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1 as its director brain, with GPT-6 Astra verifying the 3D stage, and agrees on the script before rendering.
SpAItial
SpAItial's Echo-3 turns phone scans into metric 3D worlds
The world model keeps real-world dimensions and fills in what the camera missed, exporting Gaussian splats, meshes, normals and depth.
Genie 4
Google's Genie 4 makes photoreal worlds you can ride and hear
DeepMind's world model generates the sound with the scene, takes typed instructions mid-simulation and holds a world together for two minutes, double Genie 3. Trusted testers are already using it to prototype shots.
ASAP Rocky
ASAP Rocky accused of copying a 2019 parkour clip with AI
VFX artist Cache Bunny says a six-second stretch of the Shroom Clouds video matches footage published in 2019 with parkour athlete Jason Paul.
CapCut
CapCut's video editor is coming to ChatGPT as a plugin
CapCut announced the plugin at its CapCut World event in Los Angeles on October 24, and its demo says an open beta reaches ChatGPT in November.
Apple
Final Cut Pro adds built-in MotionVFX effects and templates
The free November update also links Final Cut Pro with Pixelmator Pro and adds beta AI assistants to Logic Pro, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
A Woman Asleep
A Woman Asleep debuts at Antalya as an entirely AI-made film
A Woman Asleep screened in the Perge Hall at the Ataturk Cultural Center on October 26, followed by a question session with director Gizem Avcioglu.
Runway
Runway App Studio builds and hosts apps from a description
Runway's changelog lists App Studio on paid plans, with an Adobe panel and ProRes 4444 export listed in earlier entries.
Swedesboro Brewing Company
Swedesboro Brewing's AI spokesperson drew nearly 300 complaints
The New Jersey brewery answered with a video of the AI character reading mean comments, and founder Marvin Bowe III said he is not backing down.
StreamVibe
StreamVibe tests when a video agent should respond
Google researchers and 15 co-authors posted the StreamVibe benchmark, a streaming model and a memory harness for agents that act on user intent mid-task.
ByteDance
ByteDance's Dreamina builds a studio for AI short dramas
The Jimeng studio writes scripts from novels up to 100,000 Chinese characters and can redraw a finished drama for another region.
BBC
Blue Planet III keeps rough footage in to prove it is not AI
The BBC series is leaving in murky water and visible boats so viewers trust that its deep-sea creatures were really filmed.
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay defends using AI to animate archival photos
The director says the tools that brought public-domain photographs to life in her documentary 14th are no different from the software editors already use.
Nvidia
Nvidia's Flora labels robot video for an estimated 72 cents an hour
The open suite of three fine-tuned Qwen models undercuts GPT-6 Astra by more than a hundredfold on Nvidia's own cost estimate.
deepfakes
Fake AI clips spread worldwide, each debunked a different way
A West Bank olive grove video, an Indian Army officer and India's NSA were all targeted by clips fact-checkers and detectors flagged as fake.