AI and the Screen Entertainment Industries

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by Angus Finney

Type

Didactic

Subject

Technique > All techniques

Keywords

artificial intelligence, technology

Publishing date

2026 (October 05, 2026)

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

A Focal Press Book

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 340 pages
7 x 9 ¾ inches (17.5 x 24.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-04-100042-6

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Book Presentation:
AI and the Screen Entertainment Industries offers a comprehensive exploration and critical analysis of the rapid integration of AI tools within the entertainment sector. Author Angus Finney adopts a value-chain and project-management perspective to examine AI’s transformative role in reshaping creativity, governance, and decision-making.

This book delves into AI’s impact on development, production, sales, distribution, and marketing, while expanding its focus beyond feature films to include animation, documentaries, games, television drama, and short-form content. Section I introduces the history of AI, the ‘Seven As’ framework, and the contemporary screen value chain, laying the conceptual groundwork. Section II analyzes AI’s influence on each major link in the value chain, and Section III features detailed case studies of Hat Trick, MrBeast, and the BBC, illustrating these dynamics within real-world organisations and creative cultures. Part IV charts AI adoption across key territories, and finally, Section V addresses regulation, governance, and future directions, emphasizing the policies and decisions required to preserve authenticity and diverse storytelling in an AI-driven landscape.

While most ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in technical and applied film and television courses, this book also serves as a practical resource for industry professionals.

Additional online teaching materials include an instructor’s manual and a test-bank of questions to support in-class discussions.

About the Author:
Angus Finney is Cambridge University’s MBA Coach on the ‘Creative Industries in the Digital Age' concentration at Judge Business School, UK.

Press Reviews:
'Angus Finney provides an admirably comprehensive critical interrogation of the myriad ways that AI is transforming the Screen Entertainment industries: impacting every stage of the value chain, embracing all genres and permeating all parts of the world. Consequently, this book is an essential primer for producers and consumers, funders and policymakers alike.'

Professor Duncan Petrie, Dean of Arts & Humanities, University of York

'Dr. Finney guides us through the many wonders and challenges that AI is bringing to the screen industries and helps us navigate the unchartered waters with a deep understanding of the research site, and a unique critical framework that makes this book so timely and important.'

Charlotte Appelgren, General-Secretary, CineRegio

'Organisations within the screen industries are constantly discussing the threats, challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid and sudden growth of AI. So, we are fortunate that Angus Finney has used his considerable knowledge, experience and intelligence to deliver such an insightful analysis of what is already happening and what the future is likely to bring. Finney gives us an invaluable overview of how AI is already operating in every corner of our business. Most importantly, he encourages curiosity over fear.'

Nick Marston, Chairman of the Film, Theatre and TV department, Curtis Brown

'AI still feels nascent, in comparison to the giant it will likely become and simultaneously ubiquitous. Angus Finney’s characteristically thoughtful research comes at a perfect time, acting as a cartographer for unmapped land in the Entertainment space, helping join the dots of where AI will be best placed to serve it, and what traps practitioners should be mindful of as we work with it.'

John Giwa Amu, Producer and CEO of Good Gate Media

See the publisher website: Routledge