Amazon drops gun-free James Bond poster artwork from Prime Video streaming site

After a backlash from fans and media outlets branding Bond ‘woke’ the offending artwork has been removed from sites and replaced with stills – that are also ‘gunless’

The Guardian view on Tilly Norwood: she’s not art, she’s data

Editorial: The first 100% AI actor is a cause for alarm. But the human connection of great acting can never be replaced

The AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood is a symptom of blandified film culture. We need a return to reality

The industry should refuse to work with these uncanny figures, which plagiarise the performances of generations of actors

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood

US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’

Tilly Norwood: how scared should we be of the viral AI ‘actor’?

A bunch of code is being pushed as the next Scarlett Johansson, a creation that is already causing pushback from real human actors

Garden Reflexxx: the 10 funniest things we have ever seen (on the internet)

The film-making duo share their list of online essentials. It’s mostly women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it work

Tinseltown takeover: how Harry Potter fanfic has evolved into Hollywood’s hottest property

What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boil

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine – and toothache

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to the ‘Hollywood machine’

AI firm plans to reconstruct lost footage from Orson Welles’ masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons

Film-making studio Fable has announced it will attempt to recreate the 43 minutes cut from the auteur’s 1942 film using AI

Meet your descendants – and your future self! A trip to Venice film festival’s extended reality island

A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space

Australian film-maker Alex Proyas: ‘broken’ movie industry needs to be rebuilt and ‘AI can help us do that’

Director of The Crow and I, Robot says technology will ‘streamline’ film industry workforce but will make projects easier and cheaper

Think you actually own all those movies you’ve been buying digitally? Think again

New lawsuit aimed at Amazon questions the legitimacy of the word ‘buy’ when it comes to owning a movie on your devices

‘We are seeing a new maturity’: how ‘extended reality’ is coming of age at the Venice film festival

At the festival’s pioneering immersive section, a ‘seamless evolution’ of VR and mainstream film-making is revolutionising narrative