Jan – Mar 2026
@-mention your input references
Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, the Hollywood letters and the end of Sora.
Seedance 2.0 let you name your assets inside the prompt, like tagging people in a post: use this image as the first frame, copy the camera move from this clip, put this track underneath. It was powerful enough that Hollywood studios sent legal letters within days, and the same season OpenAI shut Sora down.
Tutorials3
Kling 3.0 first look
Theoretically Media · YouTube · Feb 2026
How it worked
- Seedance 2.0: up to nine images, three videos and three audio clips per job.
@Image1 as opening frame, @Video1 reference the camera language, @Audio1 as BGM.Fifteen-second multi-shot with separate music, ambience and voice tracks. - Kling 3.0 / 3.0 Omni: three to fifteen seconds, native audio in five languages, auto or custom multi-shot storyboards, elements from images or video, voice references extracted from a character clip.
- Grok Imagine 1.0 for fast lip-synced dialogue; Vidu Q3 for sixteen-second native-audio clips; LTX-2.3 for open weights.
- The response: Disney's cease-and-desist on 13 February, Paramount's on the 15th, the MPA's first AI letter on the 20th; a ByteDance–MPA pact followed in August.
- Sora's shutdown was announced on 24 March; the app closed on 26 April.
Example Films4
More making-ofs2
How films were actually made, from the people who made them.
Related on the timeline5