Warner Bros. Discovery released an AI-generated promotional video for its sci-fi thriller 'The End of Oak Street' in partnership with dog app DogPack. The ad featured AI-animated dogs from a podcast interviewing a character's dog. Instagram comments called it a 'huge f**k up' and said it killed interest in the film. Facebook reactions were more positive. The backlash shows the reputational risk studios face when using AI in marketing, as public sentiment remains broadly hostile toward AI-generated visuals in entertainment.
Google extended free access to Gemini Omni through August 11, letting users generate up to ten AI videos without a subscription. The tool accepts text, image, and video inputs for creating, editing, and remixing clips. Most advanced video tools require payment, so this free tier gives builders a low-risk way to evaluate Google's video generation model.
Black Forest Labs has made FLUX 3 Video generally available through its own API and select partners. This is the video half of the FLUX 3 model that landed in July, not a new model: clips up to 20 seconds at HD or 1080p, with native audio and lip-synced dialogue across English dialects, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Indonesian, Turkish, Hindi and Punjabi. BFL puts it at an Elo of 1135 on text-to-video and says it ties Seedance 2.0 while beating everything else on image-to-video, though those are internal evaluations and not a third-party board. The announcement carries no pricing, so budget on it at your own risk until BFL publishes rates.
The Honor 600 Pro uses AI Image-to-Video 2.0 to create the iconic dolly zoom effect from one still photo. The same system also produces bullet-time and drone camera movements. Output clips are short and characters can be inconsistent. It's a consumer novelty, not a replacement for a film crew.