A Millennium Media executive explains a pivot from film sets to building an AI startup lab for creatives:
• "We’ve seen the writing on the wall for years; it’s why every other release is a sequel, a reboot, or something stapled to existing IP. A $35 million film (what we used to call mid-budget) is now treated as a reckless gamble. And when the cost of entry climbs that high, the first thing sacrificed isn’t the craft — it’s the courage to tell a new story."
• "Lowering the barrier to entry isn’t a tech fantasy. It’s the only way the industry keeps producing the kind of work that made every one of us fall in love with it in the first place."
• "This is where I lose some people, so let me be precise: the point of bringing AI into production is not to make movies without people. It’s to make movies that were impossible to fund by taking cost and friction out of some parts of the pipeline that were never the soul of the work to begin with..." https://t.co/wXreE2PGTT
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0.
I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start.
It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people.
Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai
Full film in the reply.
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