{"id":221290,"date":"2026-03-08T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-founded-by-ben-affleck\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:20:16","slug":"netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-founded-by-ben-affleck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-founded-by-ben-affleck\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix acquires AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-ben-affleck\/507-17ddd539-6598-46e4-9263-ae1a4c181928\">Netflix acquires AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-ben-affleck\/507-17ddd539-6598-46e4-9263-ae1a4c181928\">https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-ben-affleck\/507-17ddd539-6598-46e4-9263-ae1a4c181928<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-08 12:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbs8.com\">www.cbs8.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netflix says the technology is designed to help filmmakers adjust their shots and enhance production.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Netflix has acquired InterPositive, an artificial intelligence filmmaking technology company founded by actor and director Ben Affleck, the streaming service announced. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles-based startup has developed AI tools designed to assist filmmakers during production and postproduction. The entire 16-person InterPositive team will join Netflix, and Affleck will serve as a senior adviser to the company.<\/p>\n<p>In a video released with the announcement, Affleck said the technology allows filmmakers to build AI models using footage from their own productions to help complete or adjust shots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can use your own model to remove the wires on stunts, reframe a shot, get a shot you missed, shape the lighting, enhance the backgrounds,\u201d Affleck said.<\/p>\n<p>Affleck said the system is designed to support filmmakers rather than generate content from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about text-prompting or generating something from nothing,\u201d Affleck said. \u201cAI, people mostly think of it as making something from nothing: \u2018I\u2019m gonna type something into a computer and it\u2019s gonna give me a movie.\u2019 That\u2019s not what this is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netflix executives said the technology aligns with the company\u2019s approach to artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur approach to AI has always been focused on meaningfully serving the needs of the creative community and our members,\u201d Elizabeth Stone, Netflix\u2019s chief product and technology officer said in a statement. \u201cThe InterPositive team is joining Netflix because of our shared&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-ben-affleck\/507-17ddd539-6598-46e4-9263-ae1a4c181928\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix acquires AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/netflix-acquires-ai-filmmaking-startup-ben-affleck\/507-17ddd539-6598-46e4-9263-ae1a4c181928 Publish Date: 2026-03-08 12:40:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cbs8.com\/assets\/CCT\/images\/decace1a-25fb-44cf-bb28-bd2ab0956402\/20260308T163235\/decace1a-25fb-44cf-bb28-bd2ab0956402_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221292,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221290\/revisions\/221292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}