Openai comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an animated film powered by AI

OPENAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can provide results and throws its weight behind an animated feature that it hopes will remain on foot with much more expensive productions, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The film, entitled “Critterz”, should be released in the world in the world in 2026 after a start planned at the Cannes Film Festival, the Newspaper reported. It will be manufactured mainly with the company’s AI tools, including GPT-5, its flagship model which landed with a deaf noise last month.
“Critterz” would be manufactured with a budget of less than $ 30 million in just nine months, fractions of what is normally required for animated features. OPENAI, alongside foreign films and dizziness of partners based in Losan and London, will hope that the film will be able to convince the leaders of Wary Hollywood to bet big on the AI, a major challenge while the industry fights with slow absorption, the resistance of talents and audiences and concerns about the intellectual and creation property agency.