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   Ben Affleck's AI-assisted Netflix film 'Animals' draws poor reviews

   Ben Affleck's self-directed Netflix film "Animals" premiered on October 9, with post-production using tools built by his AI company InterPositive. Affleck publicly acknowledged that AI was used in several places but declined to say which shots, making him the first Oscar-level director to openly admit deep AI use in filmmaking. Reception was weak: Rotten Tomatoes critics' freshness stands at 33% and audience popcorn score at 42%, with a Metacritic score of 33, as reviewers called the narrative flat and muddled and the visuals cheap. Netflix acquired InterPositive for $587 million in March, with Affleck serving as senior adviser; the company says its models are not trained on unauthorized film works but on proprietary datasets shot in controlled studios, and that its tools adjust lighting and optical effects and remove some visual effects elements. Hollywood remains divided, with Martin Scorsese advising Black Forest Labs, Danny Boyle using generative AI for roughly 30 seconds of his new film and drawing boos, and Christopher Nolan voicing wariness of the technology.

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2. Oct 9
   Netflix's ~$587M buy of Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive

   InterPositive, the film-AI company Ben Affleck founded in 2022, was acquired by Netflix in March 2026, with the team joining the streamer and Affleck staying on as a senior adviser; an SEC 10-Q filing later showed a roughly $587 million cash acquisition that month. Affleck has since detailed the approach in a Bloomberg Screentime appearance and a GQ interview: the team spent about eight months capturing a proprietary dataset in controlled stages using cameras, LiDAR, tracking gear and virtual-production setups, so models first learn filmmaking grammar — lens language, lighting, editorial continuity — and are then adapted on each project's own dailies, an approach TheWrap describes as a per-film "mini-model" used to fill missing shots, recompose, fix lighting and replace backgrounds. He confirmed his upcoming Netflix film "Animals" used the tools in several stages but declined to say which shots were processed.

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