"Nevertheless, it seems OpenAI, the maker of Chat GPT, saw potential in the 'nature documentary turned comedy'. It's putting its name behind the experimental short's expansion into a feature-length movie intended for a debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026 followed by a full cinema release. Will it show that AI is ready to take on Hollywood and slash the costs of filmmaking, or will it do the opposite like 'Netflix of AI' Showrunner?"
"California-based Native Foreign has now brought in the British production company Vertigo Films to work on the full movie, which is being funded by Vertigo's Paris-based parent company, Federation Studios. The screenplay was written by Paddington In Peru writers James Lamont and Jon Foster. Human actors will be cast for the character voices and artists will be hired to draw sketches as references to be used by OpenAI's generative AI tools like GPT-5."
"It didn't exactly set the world on fire, with comments on YouTube including "I'd call this garbage, but that'd be an insult to garbage" and "This was the worst 5 minutes I will never get back". The original short Critterz film (above) was made by a company called Native Foreign using OpenAI's Dall.E to design the visuals, including characters and backgrounds, which were then "handed to a talented team of Emmy award-winning animators"."
OpenAI is funding and supporting a feature-length expansion of the experimental short Critterz, aiming for a Cannes Film Festival debut in May 2026 and a subsequent theatrical release. The original short used OpenAI's DALL·E to generate characters and backgrounds, which were refined by Emmy-winning animators and received largely negative viewer responses online. Native Foreign partnered with Vertigo Films and Federation Studios to produce the full movie. James Lamont and Jon Foster wrote the screenplay. Human actors will provide voice performances and artists will create reference sketches for generative AI tools such as GPT-5. The production is expected to take nine months with a budget under $30 million.
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