This week in AI film history! 🎬
Looking back 3 years in the AI Film History archives.
1. Sept 22, 2023:
@CuriousRefuge builds "Can AI Make a Star Wars Film?" in a few hours as a demo for a Hollywood talk, with Midjourney stills, Pika motion, ElevenLabs voices and Wav2Lip lip sync.
2. Sept 23, 2023:
@AIandDesign posts three Runway Gen-2 films: Euphoria, Disclosure and The Deoxyreibonucleic Hyperdimension. They all lean into Gen-2's melting drift.
3. Sept 25, 2023: the 148-day strike ends and the
@WGAWest contract sets Hollywood's first enforceable AI rules: AI can't write literary material, and writers can't be required to use it.
4. Sept 19, 2024:
@Kling_ai 1.5 adds Motion Brush (similar to Runway's Gen-2 motion brush in Nov 2023), letting creators paint motion instead of prompting.
5. Sept 18, 2025:
@LumaLabsAI releases Ray3, billed as the first "reasoning" video model, with native 16-bit HDR output in ACES EXR.
6. Sept 23, 2025: Kling 2.5 Turbo improves physics and cause-and-effect and cuts the price by almost 30%.
Timeline links below 👇