La Haine director bets AI stars will shape cinema
Mathieu Kassovitz predicts a near future where AI-generated cinema is standard, with AI actors and an AI-enabled film studio in Paris; he claims AI is the final artistic tool and plans to adapt a 1940s comic with AI at the core, slashing production costs from about $50–60 million to around $25 million. He shrugs off copyright concerns, arguing cinema borrows from others, while Cannes bans AI in competition and copyright lawyers report hundreds of pending AI-related cases. The piece also notes AI-generated performances like Val Kilmer in the trailer for As Deep as the Grave.