{"id":123317,"date":"2025-09-08T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123317\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:42:08","slug":"openai-comes-for-hollywood-with-critterz-an-ai-powered-animated-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123317\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/openai-backs-ai-made-animated-feature-film-389f70b0?st=GYZ8b6&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The film, called Critterz, is expected to hit theaters worldwide in 2026 after a planned debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the Journal reported. It will be made primarily with the company\u2019s AI tools, including GPT-5, its flagship model that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/openai\/759755\/gpt-5-failed-the-hype-test-sam-altman-openai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landed with a thud last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Critterz is reportedly being made on a budget of less than $30 million in just nine months, fractions of what is normally required for animated features. OpenAI, alongside LA- and London-based partners Native Foreign and Vertigo Films, will be hoping the flick can convince wary Hollywood executives to bet big on AI, a tall order as the industry wrestles with slow uptake, resistance from talent and audiences and concerns over intellectual property and creative agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,50,874,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-123317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-news","tag-openai","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}