{"id":3030,"date":"2026-05-21T18:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/worlds-first-ever-ai-feature-film-hell-grind-premieres-at-cannes-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:07:23","slug":"worlds-first-ever-ai-feature-film-hell-grind-premieres-at-cannes-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/worlds-first-ever-ai-feature-film-hell-grind-premieres-at-cannes-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s &#8216;first ever&#8217; AI feature film &#8216;Hell Grind&#8217; premieres at Cannes Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128412725.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Bonjour, intelligence artificielle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a shocking first, a new movie made entirely using artificial intelligence premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cHell Grind,\u201d the 95-minute flick took a team of 15 just two weeks to create and cost $500,000 \u2014 $400,000 of which went toward compute costs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/cio-journal\/this-cannes-film-cost-500-000-to-make-400-000-was-ai-compute-costs-a823b08d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cHell Grind,\u201d a movie created entirely with AI, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. <span class=\"credit\">JoBlo Movie Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By contrast, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/19\/entertainment\/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-decent-one-off-tries-to-restart-star-wars\/\">Disney\u2019s \u201cThe Mandalorian and Grogu,\u201d <\/a>which hits theaters this weekend, had a reported production budget of $166.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco startup Higgsfield AI has billed their science-fiction experiment as \u201cthe world\u2019s first ever AI feature film,\u201d and even dropped a trailer for it on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Looking like a cheaper combination of \u201cMortal Kombat,\u201d \u201cResident Evil\u201d and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it\u2019s packed with violent fantasy action sequences and has a gods-and-monsters plot. A narrator says, \u201cLong before humans walked the earth, there was a war between angels and demons.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The 95-minute film cost $500,000 to make. <span class=\"credit\">JoBlo Movie Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The process to make \u201cHell Grind\u201d was much more complex than jotting off a note to Chat GPT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t go into AI and say make me a 95-minute cool video,\u201d Adil Alimzhanov, a content lead at Higgsfield, told The Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The creators had to input prompts with detailed style specifications (for example, \u201ccine lens,\u201d 180-degree shutter motion blur) into their tool averaging 3,000 words, and each would result in just 15 seconds of footage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The company even released a trailer for \u201cHell Grind.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">JoBlo Movie Network<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The final product was screened at the prestigious French festival, which has never shied away from controversy, to showcase the company\u2019s impressive technology.<\/p>\n<p>Higgsfield founder Alex Mashrabov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/amashrabov_we-just-premiered-at-cannes-our-first-95-ugcPost-7462589013078487040-dRJ2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on LinkedIn<\/a>, \u201cThis is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Demi Moore said at a Cannes press conference that artists must learn to live with AI. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AI has been a hot topic in Hollywood and at Cannes. The nearly four-month SAG-AFTRA strike that ground the industry to a halt in 2023 was staged in part because of concerns over its use. But this year, festival attendees have shown more openness to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/13\/style\/demi-moore-reinvents-her-own-2003-red-carpet-look-at-cannes-film-festival-2026\/\"> actress Demi Moore <\/a>said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/21\/entertainment\/worlds-first-ever-ai-feature-film-hell-grind-premieres-at-cannes-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour, intelligence artificielle! 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