Cannes AI Film Digest

AI Feature Film Innovations

• 🔥 Hell Grind: The 95-minute action-fantasy feature Hell Grind was created end-to-end on the Higgsfield AI platform...

Multiple gen-AI tools now target screenplay writing, directly prompting critical questions about the ethical and pedagogical implications for creative processes.

Kling AI's exclusive global tech partnership with Evolutionary Films on animated feature Minibots emphasizes artist-led strategies over pure...

Generative AI transforms static 1976 erotic magazine spreads into motion-picture shorts with color, sound and dialogue, debuting on the Cannes...

An exclusive Cannes preview and official trailer launch mark Hell Grind as the first fully AI-native 95-minute feature.

• Technical execution: A team...

Filmmakers at Cannes are moving past resistance toward pragmatic AI collaboration that preserves human creativity. Nikola Todorovic of Wonder...

New AI Production Entities Launch

• 🔥 Amavizion Debuts: Amavizion launched at the Marché du Film with a UK pay-per-view platform, international...

• Japanese director Koji Fukada cautioned at Cannes that AI "jump straight to the result" risks undermining self-expression and understanding.
• His...

Cannes 2026 showcases a clear spectrum of filmmaker attitudes toward AI, from resistance to pragmatic embrace.

• Thierry Fremaux issues stark...

• Festival spotlight shifts: Cannes Market highlights AI creative tools through panels and showcases as traditional Hollywood participation...

Eros Innovation spotlighted Asia's sovereign AI vision at Cannes Next on May 14, 2026, framing regional control over AI tools as key to media...

Two major initiatives at Cannes highlight growing industry efforts to govern AI use:

• Consent Registry: Cate Blanchett-backed tool from RSL Media...

Cannes is seeing real-world AI adoption move from debate to practical filmmaking and new business models.

• Soderbergh's Lennon doc used Meta AI for...

Amavizion makes its Marché du Film debut by launching a UK pay-per-view streaming platform, an international sales arm, and an AI lab in one...

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