Film AI Forum Highlights Industry Integration and Production Tools

People's Daily reported that the Film Artificial Intelligence Forum of the 2026 Cultural Intelligence International Conference and Second Cultural Intelligence Conference was held in Beijing. Co-hosted by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the China Film Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, the event focused on the transition from production capacity to industrial capacity and the future of artificial intelligence in cinema. Industry experts and scholars observed that artificial intelligence has embedded itself into every stage of cinema, spanning creative conception, previsualization, shooting, post-production, dubbing, and distribution. Participants generally agreed that these tools are deeply reconstructing the entire film production process. Ma Ping, head of the China Film Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, stated that AI has substantially lowered film production costs. With multimodal large models continuing to advance rapidly and remaining far from their technical limits, artificial intelligence applications within the film industry are expected to deepen. At the same time, China Society of Motion Picture Cinematographers President Hou Yong emphasized at the forum that AI-generated imagery cannot completely replace live-action footage. While AI imagery has reached an advanced level, it still cannot achieve the authenticity of practical filming.

The China Film Artificial Intelligence Research Institute applied a self-developed dubbing model to complete AI English dubbing for the movie Pegasus 3 in 6 days. This made it China's first film released simultaneously with Chinese and English bilingual dubbing, effectively simulating the voices of actors Shen Teng and Yin Zheng.