Creative GenerationVerified
Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Runway announced a partnership with Lionsgate Entertainment in September 2024 to develop a custom AI video generation model trained on Lionsgate's proprietary catalog of over 20,000 film and television titles, available exclusively to Lionsgate filmmakers and creative talent.
Details
The custom model is designed exclusively for Lionsgate's internal use and cannot be accessed by other Runway users. It is intended to enable Lionsgate's filmmakers, directors, and creative staff to use AI-generated cinematic video for pre-production and post-production workflows, including pre-visualization. This represents Runway's enterprise model customization offering, in which it builds bespoke generative video models for media and entertainment partners.
Products affected
Custom Lionsgate AI video model
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Runway: Runway announced a partnership with Lionsgate Entertainment in September 2024 to develop a custom AI video generation model trained on Lionsgate's proprietary catalog of over 20,000 film and television titles, available exclusively to Lionsgate filmmakers and creative talent (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0381231a-bc5d-4f04-aa23-447a7553d619. Accessed October 5, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/0381231a-bc5d-4f04-aa23-447a7553d619
- Data as of
- May 11, 2026
- Last verified
- Not recorded
Other practices by Runway
ModerationRunway uses an in-house AI visual moderation system that automatically detects and blocks attempts to generate harmful or inappropriate content, including depictions of public figures without consent, and adds invisible C2PA-standard watermarks to every generated output to label it as AI-made.Creative GenRunway offers Act-One and Act-Two, AI tools that transfer a human actor's facial expressions, mouth movements, and gestures from a simple driving video onto a generated or user-supplied character image. These tools are available to users on Standard plan and higher.Creative GenRunway offers an AI video generation platform that takes text prompts, images, or existing video clips as input and produces short synthetic video clips. The platform's current flagship model, Gen-4.5, is available to all paid subscribers worldwide.
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