\n\tIt\u2019ll take a bit longer for the first AI-generated film to make it to theaters \u2014\u00a0because it\u2019s gunning for an Oscar.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe AI studio Fable<\/a> has shifted the U.S. release<\/a> of \u201cGods Don\u2019t Give Gifts,\u201d the collection of four anthology shorts by the AI-focused YouTuber Gossip Goblin<\/a> (n\u00e9 Zack London), from Oct. 30 to Dec. 4. While Fable has not yet disclosed a distributor for the film, the film\u2019s trailer will make its debut in theaters on Friday, and its poster will spread across U.S. multiplexes.<\/p>\n \n\tFable and London revealed their ambitious plans for a theatrical rollout in July, hoping to follow the path laid by YouTubers-turned-filmmakers Kane Parsons and Mark Fischbach, or Markiplier, who leveraged their respective YouTube followings to box office successes in \u201cBackrooms\u201d ($401 million) and \u201cIron Lung\u201d ($51.2 million). Its story \u2014\u00a0which lies within the \u201csecond cycle of humanity\u201d\u00a0within the Gossip Goblin universe\u2019s \u201c13 cycles\u201d and aims to satirize society\u2019s relationship with AI \u2014\u00a0traces the fallout of humanity besting earthly limitations like death and memory through technology and how it grapples with humanity as a result.<\/p>\n \n\tBut the roughly monthlong delay comes with an ulterior motive: a bid to get the project closer to the traditional Oscar campaign season. Fable plans to submit the film for consideration in the best animated feature category for the upcoming Oscars, testing both the Academy\u2019s hesitation toward publicly AI-powered films and whether AI-generated projects can stand among films generally regarded as the year\u2019s best in cinema. <\/p>\n \n\tThe campaign will also include advanced screenings for Academy voters, pre-release screenings for critics and a billboard advertising campaign across Los Angeles next month, all to celebrate what Fable CEO Edward Saatchi claims is \u201ca seminal, historic moment in animation.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFor 5 years, the question has been when will an AI film win an Oscar? Gods Don\u2019t Give Gifts is the first that has a shot at a nomination and then it\u2019s all to play for,\u201d Saatchi said in a statement. \u201cWe feel it could be this generation\u2019s Toy Story \u2013 the fact that this generation\u2019s Toy Story is a dark, satirical, bold statement on all 2026\u2019s fears about AI and our species\u2019 future is an appropriate commentary on the questions we are all confronting as a society.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLondon describes the anthology in a statement as \u201cpart speculation, part critique\u201d\u00a0and hopes audiences can \u201ctake a premise seriously, follow its emotional consequences, and let the results be strange, funny, grotesque, and sad.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI made these films with AI, which some people find ironic,\u201d\u00a0he said. \u201cBut using a medium to interrogate that medium is one of the oldest moves in art; I may just be early to do it with AI. But what AI actually gave me is the ability to transmit stories onto a screen, with minimal filters, intervention, committees or constraints. Its enabled myself and a small talented team to envision an extravagant world, down to its smallest prop, and bring it to life with extraordinary fidelity \u2013 from jaw-dropping visuals of leviathans and space ships and talking apes, down to the scuffed up sneakers on a background extra.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGods Don\u2019t Give Gifts\u201d will represent the biggest test of whether the Academy is willing to accept wholesale AI-generated films since its May ban on AI actors or AI-assisted scripts. But generally, according to its published eligibility rules, AI tools \u201cneither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination\u201d and the relevant Academy branches will \u201cjudge the achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIf questions arise regarding the aforementioned use of Generative Artificial Intelligence, the Academy reserves the right to request more information about the nature of the use and human authorship,\u201d\u00a0the rules state.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film\u2019s violence, and \u201cR\u201d\u00a0rating from the Motion Picture Association, may also serve as a barrier. The first R-rated film nominated for best animated feature was Charlie Kaufman\u2019s 2015 stop-motion picture \u201cAnomalisa.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWatch a trailer for the film below:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019ll take a bit longer for the first AI-generated film to make it to theaters \u2014\u00a0because it\u2019s gunning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,152134,486425,344],"class_list":["post-918315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fable","tag-gossip-goblin","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}