2025 Cinema is becoming a chronicle of AI’s continued encroachment onto screens around the world. 

So far, the most attention has been paid to how AI interacts with actors; resurrecting the dead, de-aging the living, bolstering Academy Award-winning accents, etc. 

But I suspect AI is already responsible for creating way more than that, so here’s an incomplete list of recent examples that made me wonder if I was experiencing the work of humans or AI:

• A Working Man’s “animated(?)” opening credits.
• Words of War’s UN establishing shot…
• …ALL of Juliet & Romeo’s establishing shots…
• ……and also BOTH its music AND lyrics?? 

(Composers better watch out; scores feel like AI’s next frontier).  

• We’ve covered Anthony Hopkins’ “performance” in Locked…
• …and scenic backdrops. 

Every single one of these instances seems replicable, so stay mindful out there.