{"id":1015790,"date":"2026-06-20T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015790"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:48:25","slug":"theres-no-soul-tony-leung-weighs-in-on-ai-in-filmmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/theres-no-soul-tony-leung-weighs-in-on-ai-in-filmmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There&#8217;s no soul&#8217;: Tony Leung weighs in on AI in filmmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung Chiu-wai likes about acting is the novelty &#8212; &#8220;you will never repeat the same role&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the changes wrought on his beloved cinema by technology like AI, though, there are some things it seems he would rather keep constant. <\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old is president of the main jury at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) this year, and on Friday sat down with AFP and The Hollywood Reporter for a wide-ranging interview that took in artificial intelligence, Chinese cinema and his future projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things Hong Kong superstar Tony Leung Chiu-wai likes about acting is the novelty &#8212; &#8220;you will never repeat the same role&#8221;. When it comes to the changes wrought on his beloved cinema by technology like AI, though, there are some things it seems he would rather keep constant. The 63-year-old is president of the main jury at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) this year, and on Friday sat down with AFP and The Hollywood Reporter for a wide-ranging interview that took in artificial intelligence, Chinese cinema and his future projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015812,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015790\/revisions\/1015812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}