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On filmmaking

  1. What would it cost to make Breaking Bad with AI?

    A line-by-line estimate for one 47-minute episode using this year's public video generation prices. Generating the footage is only part of the budget; performance and continuity remain much harder to get right.

    3 min
  2. The model plans the shots now

    ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generates multi-shot sequences with references for characters, props and sound, and triggered cease-and-desist letters within a day. What's left for the editor, and for rights holders.

    2 min
  3. Four-second clips can't make a movie

    Pika 1.0, Stable Video Diffusion and Runway's latest make beautiful short clips. What's missing is the grammar of film: continuity, screen direction and eyelines.

    2 min