Bona Film's 100-minute AI-assisted feature 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' gets theatrical release Oct 23
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-03
Bona Film Group has set an October 23 nationwide release for Sanxingdui: Future Past, a 100-minute sci-fi feature made with AI throughout and granted an official theatrical screening license.
Production details:
- Two years in the making, with over 1.2 million source images and 100+ full-film iterations.
- AI handled image generation and content production under Bona's 100+ person AIGMS division, which owned creative concept, narrative direction, and final artistic decisions.
- The team manually calibrated micro-expressions frame by frame to meet theatrical standards: 4K, HDR, surround sound.
The author's takeaway for AI-media creators: study the production system around the generator — asset management, version control, human supervision across the runtime.
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