Overview
- AMC said it was not involved in the AI short’s creation and has told Screenvision that AMC locations will not participate.
- Thanksgiving Day by Igor Alferov won Screenvision’s Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival, which promised a two-week national pre-show run.
- Screenvision organized the contest and supplies the 20-minute pre-show to multiple chains, with exhibitors not setting the contest’s terms.
- Screenvision and the festival offered no immediate comment, and it remains unclear whether other theater chains will carry the short.
- Prior AI shorts have had limited theatrical play, and a broad pre-show run would likely mark the first nationwide exposure for a narrative AI film in cinemas.