Motionflare
Motionflare Film mode makes a TV-style commercial from a URL
The maker says it writes the brief, plans the shots and renders believable people in real places, with voiceover and sound built into the picture.
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Cappu Films
Cappu Films takes worldwide sales on AI-rebuilt Overstake
Writer-director Stas Mareev shot it as a live-action feature and is rebuilding its environments with generative AI for a buyer pitch in Busan.
Koyal AI
Koyal AI and Waveband say Jamlok is the first AI horror film
The poster was unveiled on October 10 at Uncanny India in New Delhi, and the makers plan to finish the multilingual film in about three months.
Kling AI
Kling AI panel: directors say craft makes AI video cinematic
Korean director Kim Sung-soo showed an eight-minute Kafka-inspired short, Worm Train, made with Kling AI tools by a nine-person hybrid crew.
Netflix
Netflix says it has used AI on about 300 titles
Korean director Kang Yun-sung told the same Busan panel that AI workflows can cut a feature film's production budget by 30% to 40%.
California
AI ad performers now need a label in New York, California next
California's law takes effect January 1, 2027 and covers AI voices; New York's has been in force since June 9 and exempts audio-only ads.
runway
Runway now sells rival models inside OpenAI's Marketplace
Luma AI cut the credit rates it charges for ByteDance's Seedance models on Dream Machine, a reduction the outlet ChatPicture put at as much as 73 percent.
instagram
AI comedian Tiffany Sloane drew 375,000 followers on stolen jokes
The stand-up George Brett Olson posted a side-by-side comparison on October 3, and the account's posts were wiped days later.
sidhu-moose-wala
Sidhu Moose Wala hologram tour opens without AI
Producers say the effect is Pepper's Ghost, a 2D projection, and that no AI was used after a 2024 AI attempt looked gimmicky.
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck says he used AI on Animals and won't say where
He said at Bloomberg's Screentime event that the AI work was mostly in post-production, on a thriller Netflix put in select theaters and on streaming October 9.
prime-video
Prime Video takes global rights to AI film Çukur: Vartolu
Ay Yapim's Singapore-based AI Yapim generated every frame over human actors' performances, and Variety's report did not include financial terms or a release date.
Nvidia
Nvidia in talks to acquire or invest more in Reflection AI
The Financial Times reported early-stage talks that could end in a full purchase, an acqui-hire, or a deeper investment in the $800 million-backed startup.
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage refused Amazon's AI waiver for Spider-Noir
The actor says he is "probably not" working with Amazon again, and the studio canceled Spider-Noir after one season in September.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield Katana builds video edits from a reference in Claude
The tool runs inside Anthropic's Claude through Higgsfield's MCP connector and turns an uploaded clip into editable motion graphics.
Higgsfield
Higgsfield opens voting for its $1 million AI film festival
Paid-plan users can cast up to five votes, one per shortlisted film, until October 15, with $100,000 riding on the Audience Choice Award.
Kling
Kling 4.0: what ships today and what is still a promise
Kuaishou's next video model was announced on September 28, but only a lighter Flash tier is usable while the full model waits on a date.
HeyGen
HeyGen Voice debuts at No. 1 on Artificial Analysis
The avatar company's first in-house voice model is free in its platform and API, with a $99 monthly clone trained on the owner's own speech.
HyperFrames
HyperFrames Studio: how to make video with a coding agent
The free, Apache-2.0 editor from HeyGen's HyperFrames team lets Claude Code or Codex build the project, then you trim clips and edit on the same timeline.
AI video
The 7 best free AI video tiers, ranked by what you keep
HeyGen and Synthesia lead because their free plans renew monthly; Pika, Kling and Higgsfield withhold commercial rights, and Luma lists no free tier.
Germany
Germany's cabinet approves a bill criminalizing sexual deepfakes
The draft adds new crimes for damaging deepfakes, fake profiles and covert tracking, and lets courts order platforms to remove content and block accounts.