World’s ‘first ever AI feature film’ premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival premiered the world's first feature film created entirely with artificial intelligence, titled 'Hell Grind.' This 95-minute film was produced by a San Francisco startup in just two weeks at a cost of $500,000. The film's creators emphasized the complexity of the AI process, which involved detailed prompts to generate footage.
- ▪The film 'Hell Grind' was made by a team of 15 and took only two weeks to complete.
- ▪It cost $500,000 to produce, with a significant portion allocated to compute costs.
- ▪The film showcases AI's ability to maintain character consistency and narrative coherence.
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Movies World’s ‘first ever AI feature film’ premieres at the Cannes Film Festival By Johnny Oleksinski Published May 21, 2026, 2:03 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add Page Six on Google Bonjour, intelligence artificielle! 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. 4 “Hell Grind,” a movie created entirely with AI, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
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