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  1. AI-Assisted Feature Sanxingdui: Future Memories Hits Chinese Cinemas

    Bona Film Group's 100-minute feature Sanxingdui: Future Memories opened nationwide in Chinese cinemas on October 23, with every character portrayed as a newly designed digital figure rather than a real actor. TMTPost reported that the production used more than 1.2 million generated images for roughly 2,000 shots, with Shengshu Technology's Vidu listed as lead technical support and substantial manual work required to maintain consistency. The production team described it as China's first AI-assisted feature to receive a public-screening permit and open commercially, but the supplied report provides no independent verification of that firstness claim.

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  2. Bona’s AI feature Sanxingdui: Future Past reaches cinemas

    TMTPost reports that Bona Film Group’s 100-minute AI-generated feature “Sanxingdui: Future Past” received a National Film Administration exhibition permit and reached cinemas. The production took more than two years, involved 70 to 80 people and cost over RMB 10 million, according to the producers. The team used fully digital characters and virtual environments rather than live-action filming, while repeatedly revising shots as newer models appeared.

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  3. China’s AI short-drama boom faces soaring traffic costs

    A 妙投APP analysis by Duan Mingzhu says China’s AI short-drama market reached RMB 22 billion in the first half of 2026 and is forecast to exceed RMB 40 billion for the year. Citing DataEye vice president Lin Qiwen, it says production costs fell 90%, while traffic costs rose more than 100% and revenue declined by over 50%. DataEye’s reported first-half hit rate was 0.47%. The report also examines three platform models from ByteDance’s RedNote Short Drama, Tencent’s Green Bubble Short Drama and Kuaishou, noting that none separately discloses AI short-drama revenue.

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  4. AI micro-drama stocks rally; Decai unit's monthly revenue nears RMB 20M

    AI micro-drama (AI漫剧) concept stocks extended a rally in China from Oct 12–14: Decai Co. (605287.SH) closed limit-up at 44.20 yuan for its third limit-up in four sessions (up 30.04% over that span), while Ciwen Media rose 46.47% over four sessions; Bona Film Group, Huanrui Century, Zhangyue Technology and Guomai Culture also gained. Decai's controlled unit Qixiang Wuxian booked RMB 19.2677M in June revenue — about 78.4% of its first-half total — while still posting a RMB 5.6217M net loss; Ciwen said its AIGC platform "Ciwen TV" is still under construction with no related revenue yet, and Huanrui said AI short-drama revenue is under 1% of overall sales. Catalysts include ByteDance's PineDrama topping 100M downloads and roughly 7M DAU about nine months after launch, platform incentive programs such as Volcano Engine's Seedance film plan and Bilibili's upgraded anime-drama plan, local subsidies, and DataEye's estimate of a RMB 40B China AI drama/micro-drama market in 2026.

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  5. Volcano Engine launches Seedance film program, up to ¥1M per project

    At the Pingyao International Film Festival, ByteDance's cloud unit Volcano Engine announced a Seedance film cooperation program offering token subsidies, marketing resources and technical support to professional film and series, animation and short-film projects worldwide, with incentives of up to 1 million RMB per project. The push follows Volcano Engine's Cannes appearance with Seedance 2.0 in May, where the source says Higgsfield's 95-minute AI feature "Hell Grind," with nearly all video and voice generated by Seedance 2.0, was made for under $500,000 in 14 days. Separately, Bona Film Group's "Sanxingdui: Future Past," in which Bona says Seedance 2.0 was used only to enhance some scenes, reaches theaters on Oct. 23, while ByteDance's Jimeng AI launched a film label, Jimeng Film Studio, on Aug. 26 and Douyin hosted an AI short-film hackathon with computing support from Volcano Engine.

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  6. 27 listed Chinese film and TV firms and their AI bets: two all-in, most still watching

    The piece surveys the publicly disclosed AI positioning of 27 China-listed film and TV companies (17 A-share, 10 Hong Kong-listed) as of Oct 8, 2026, sorting them into "all-in", "watching" and "swimming naked" buckets using four criteria: disclosed investment size, in-house model development, self-built compute, and industry funds. It names Huace Film & TV and Chinese Online as the only two all-in players, noting Chinese Online disclosed a RMB 2.833bn private placement — about 10.8x its end-June net assets — received a Shenzhen Stock Exchange inquiry letter two days later, and on Oct 8 cancelled both the placement and its H-share listing. Huayi Brothers, Huazhi Digital Media, Beijing Culture and STAR CM are described as debt-burdened laggards unable to follow.

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