OpenAI is helping make an AI generated feature length animated movie that will be released in theaters in 2026. Total production time: nine months Total budget: $30 million The plan is to debut 'Critterz' at Cannes in May.

Sep 8, 2025 · 4:05 AM UTC

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Exclusive | OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film

The film, called “Critterz,” aims to debut at the Cannes Film Festival and will leverage the startup’s AI tools and resources.

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Open AI doesn't have a video model that could do this? Which model(s) are they planning on using?
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Sora 2 I presume, it has been training for some time now.
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Is this true!? I don't see much about it? Is it on IMDB at least?
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It doesn't finish production till next year.
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Achievable. But actual budget is more like $30 billion in compute lmao.
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You can make a real animated movie for less than $30m, this is a scam to bilk naive investors
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So, they're spending same or higher budget for an AI movie. ¿What's the benefit?
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Wonder what would be more fun - Cannes not accepting the submission - It getting booed at Cannes - It not finding a distributor after Cannes - It becoming a world record box office flop because only Linus Ekkenstam went to see it I kinda wanna get all the way to the last one
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District 9 cost less than this lol
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We will all be watching!! 🍿
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AI generated films should not be eligible for awards
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They should call it “Becoming Critter”
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Very excited to see how this turns out! It’s a perfect fit for generative AI.
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@BecomingCritter
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It is already 9 months since the 1st release of Sora. Not sure what is their status for Sora 2 now. They should catch up with Veo3.
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AI in Hollywood = next-level.
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$30m to make an animated movie is actually really cheap. people asking why it costs so much seem to forget that AI can create the movie, but there are distribution costs, it still needs to be edited, etc. considering happy gilmore 2 cost $152.5 million this is cheap
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Nine months? That's incredibly fast for a feature film. Will this redefine animation timelines going forward?
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I will do it for 10M 👀
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❤️ this is what I love to see!
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another w movie w chatgtp w credits
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9 months !!!
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Wow this is great news!
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How does it cost $30M??? The cost seems quite inflated for an AI project. Unless the majority of the cost goes to the writers or those who own the rights to the story.
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This should be boycotted worldwide.
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>AI >$30 Million So what happened to AI reducing costs and pulling the budget down. 🤔
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$20k to make the movie with Sora, $29.98M to fix the Sora issues in post 🤣
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Eric Bourdages @EZE3D
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Flow cost 3.5M and I guarantee is infinitely better with more charm, life and love than what this film will turn out to be.
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Critterz? Could this look and sound more generic?
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that budget is insane low for a full movie, imagine how many animators they just replaced with a few gpus running stable diffusion all night
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