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AI is coming for your Bible. Not literally (yet), but it’s definitely eyeing up the lucrative biblical storytelling market. Forget Charlton Heston and Cecil B. DeMille; soon, your epic retellings of the Old Testament might be conjured up by a silicon-brained deity in a server farm. The promise is tantalizing: instant, high-quality biblical content…
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Another AI video model? Yes, but this one claims to be different. Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup, just dropped Marey, named after some dead French dude who fiddled with early cinema. Apparently, he’s their muse. More importantly, Moonvalley insists Marey is ‘clean,’ trained exclusively on licensed data. Translation: they paid people for their content…
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Christopher Nolan, the prophet of celluloid, warned us. AI is here, it’s impacting filmmaking, but storytelling, he assures us, remains stubbornly human. Meanwhile, back in Kerala, Malayalam cinema is proving Nolan right… and maybe a little bit wrong. They’re not just contemplating AI; they’re weaponizing it. ‘Gaganachari’: When Sci-Fi Meets Savvy While Hollywood throws…
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In 1917, Hans Hartman, a civil engineer with a penchant for the deep, dreamt up a monstrous device. His invention? A 1,500-pound electric submarine camera, lowered on a cable, with the lofty ambition of filming sunken ships. Think of it as the world’s first remotely operated vehicle (ROV), only… blind. While boasting a gyroscope…
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Stability AI, a company that’s seen more turbulence than a budget airline, is back with another AI offering: Stable Virtual Camera. The premise? Transform your humdrum 2D images into ‘immersive’ 3D videos. The reality? Well, let’s just say manage your expectations. Virtual cameras, for those not fluent in CGI jargon, are digital tools used…
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Hollywood: the land of dreams, broken aspirations, and crippling existential dread… exacerbated by the rise of artificial intelligence. While the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA were busy battling the machines (or, more accurately, the studios threatening to replace them with machines), a quiet revolution was brewing. Forget dystopian nightmares – some filmmakers…
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The Russo brothers, fresh off saving the universe (multiple times, digitally, of course), have a new nemesis: soulless AI dominating filmmaking. Their solution? Arm artists with AI, before the algorithms arm themselves. Because, let’s face it, Skynet started somewhere, probably in a script meeting gone wrong. Fresh from directing behemoths like Avengers: Endgame, Joe…
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Bollywood, the land of vibrant colors, dramatic storylines, and occasionally questionable dance moves, is facing a technological shake-up. And no, it’s not just better CGI. Artificial intelligence is muscling its way onto the set, promising to slash costs, streamline production, and maybe even write a decent script or two. The announcement of Prismix, Ajay…
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AI. The two letters that strike fear into the hearts of… well, maybe just writers. But its tendrils are now firmly wrapped around filmmaking, from script generation to de-aging actors faster than you can say ‘uncanny valley’. But what about the humble movie theatre? Are Canadian cinemas just sitting ducks, waiting to be replaced…
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FancyTech, fresh off their LVMH Innovation Award (we’re still figuring out exactly what that means), just closed a multi-million dollar B+ round. Yes, a ‘B+’ round. Apparently, just ‘B’ wasn’t quite enough, and ‘C’ was far too pedestrian. This injection of capital, co-led by Zhilin Capital and GSR Ventures (with DCM Ventures tagging along…