Leonardo DiCaprio is joining the chorus of Hollywood A-Listers who have voiced their concerns and hopes for the artificial intelligence age. On the day of his appointment as Time‘s Entertainer of the Year and Golden Globe nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the…

The creator of controversial AI actress Tilly Norwood has outlined how her team went about giving Norwood the “‘girl next door’ authenticity” that has brought the world to her attention. Eline Van der Velden said there were “2000 iterations” of what Norwood could have been but ultimately they…

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of UK actors could refuse to be digitally scanned on set as the Equity union makes history by holding a ballot of its members from the film and TV industry. As Equity and producer trade body Pact remain deadlocked over guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI), the union…

Luma AI, the California tech start-up, has launched its first international office in London. The company, which bills its as a “frontier artificial intelligence company building multimodal AGI intelligence” and known for generative video and imaging product Dream Machine, is opening the office…

Though James Cameron — who sits on the board of Stability AI — has expressed positive sentiments about artificial intelligence usage in filmmaking, he calls the prospect of the technology replacing actors “horrifying” and maintains its implementation will inevitably raise the bar for our standards on…

EXCLUSIVE: AI-powered animation studio Spiridellis Bros. Studios has announced an exclusive partnership with songwriter and music artist Parry Gripp, whose songs for children have drawn hundreds of millions of views over the past decade. The deal gives Spiridellis Bros. global rights to develop…

Robert Redford’s daughter, Amy Redford, censured those who are paying tribute to the late actor via AI-generated “fabrications” that “do not represent anyone in a positive light.” The actress, producer and director released a statement on her Instagram speaking out against the usage of…

The Emmy-winning editor who created the viral Last Supper Selfies is opening an AI studio in the UK. Duncan Thomsen has launched AiStudiosUK.com with former Gogglebox producer Ollie Durrant and Angel Eye Media MD Richard Osborne. Thomsen is the founder of Artificial Studios and Artificial…

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, TikTok UK boss Dominic Burns told Deadline how the social media behemoth had deepened ties with the TV and film industry with the launch of its Spotlight tool in the UK. Today, Burns detailed to the British Screen Forum (BSF) how some of the biggest British…

Welcome to Rendering, a new Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering will examine how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Go…

Oscar-winning director Gore Verbinski said he’s “troubled” with the course generative artificial intelligence is on, saying the technology is lopsidedly focused on stripping humanity of its desire to engage with the arts rather than solving tangible real-world problems. The filmmaker, who is…

Disney+ subscribers could soon be getting “game-like features” in the not too distant future, and it has artificial intelligence (AI) to thank, according to Bob Iger. The media giant is also looking to use AI to create “a much more engaged experience, including the ability for them to create…