Overview
- Avary says his General Cinema Dynamics banner, in partnership with Massive AI Studios, has three AI-driven features in active production.
- The slate includes a family Christmas movie slated for this holiday season, a faith-based feature planned for Easter 2027, and a romantic war epic.
- He says investors backed the projects once they were framed as AI-driven and claims VFX costs have dropped from roughly $1 million a minute to about $5,000.
- The Motion Picture Association condemned AI video tool Seedance 2.0 and parent company ByteDance after a viral clip used lifelike Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt likenesses, calling it large-scale unauthorized use of copyrighted works.
- Sen. Adam Schiff and Sen. John Curtis introduced a disclosure bill requiring companies to report copyrighted works used to train AI models, with endorsements from SAG-AFTRA, the WGA, and the DGA.