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The use of AI in film and television production has become a central point of contention for writers and actors in WGA and SAG-AFTRA, respectively, who are currently striking against AMPTP. But if AI is already in use, what are they fighting over?

Liu’s upcoming projects include the rom-com “One True Loves” with Phillipa Soo and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”

Far from ushering in the death of cinema, AI can help film the “unfilmable" and make cinema more collaborative.

Final Oscars predictions 2021: Who will win and who should win? By 12 hours ago Its all come down to this. The longest awards season is drawing to a close, after an excruciating pandemic year that nearly destroyed the movie business. History looks to be made at the Oscars, with women and people of colour getting recognition — but theres also room for a surprise or two. In the winners tally, Ma Raineys Black Bottom with three including Chadwick Boseman. Netflix is presumed to be the leading ...

How Welcome to Chechnya VFX Team Gave the Docs Subjects a Digital On-Camera "Disguise" Courtesy of Cinetic Media; Igor Myakotin/Courtesy of Cinetic Media; Courtesy of HBO. Top: The face of a volunteer, captured against bluescreen, is used to hide the identity of one of the men in Chechnya. Bottom: Director David France tests the bluescreen process and David Isteev, an activist in the film. The first documentary to make the visual  effects Oscar shortlist, David Frances film, which goes under...

How ‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Became the First Doc Ever Shortlisted for the Visual Effects Oscar Visual effects supervisor Ryan Laney talks about using “human shields” to protect 23 LGBT subjects via VFX: “On a normal effects project, the goal is to fool the audience. That wasn’t ours.”Joe McGovern | February 23, 2021 @ 3:37 PM Welcome to Chechnya VFX (HBO) The first documentary ever shortlisted for Best Visual Effects, “Welcome to Chechnya” beings with a disclaimer acknowled...