World's 'First Ever AI Feature Film' Premieres at the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It's Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell Grind” was being screened at the iconic Cannes Film Festival, dropping a nuclear bomb in the middle of the already-heated debate on the tech’s intrusion into the art and business of cinema. “Four street thieves are on the road to hell, literally, in an action-adventure movie debuting at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday,” the newspape…

AI movie hallucinates "Cannes" debut

Despite what some chatbot or Murdoch-owned newspaper told you, Hell Grind, the 95-minute farting-demon movie generated by AI, did not premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Per Futurism, Hell Grind was “not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program,” according to a festival spokesperson. Though outlets like Screen Daily and the Journal say otherwise, the film screened at “an industr…

AI Film 'Hell Grind' Premieres at Cannes Film Festival 2026

Get latest articles and stories on Entertainment at LatestLY. A movie titled 'Hell Grind' made entirely using artificial intelligence, premiered at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. Entertainment News | AI Film 'Hell Grind' Premieres at Cannes Film Festival 2026.

World's 'first ever AI feature film' premieres at the Cannes Film Festival

In a shocking first, a new movie made entirely using artificial intelligence premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival. Called “Hell Grind,” the 95-minute flick took a team of 15 just two weeks to create and cost $500,000 — $400,000 of which went toward compute costs, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Hell Grind trailer – The $500,000 AI feature film debuting at Cannes

Hell Grind is a 95 minute AI-generated movie that took two weeks to make.

AI-Generated Movie Screening at Cannes

A sci-fi film showing at Cannes this week took a scant two weeks to make and cost a relatively modest $500,000, notes a post at SciFiNow . The reason? Every bit of it was generated with artificial intelligence. The 95-minute movie is called Hell Grind —the trailer is here . San...