OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film 

Two AI-generated  figures from the accumulation of Critterz.

OpenAI is connected a ngo to amusement Hollywood that generative artificial quality tin present results and is throwing its value down an animated diagnostic movie it hopes volition basal toe-to-toe with overmuch costlier productions, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The film, called Critterz, is expected to deed theaters worldwide successful 2026 aft a planned debut astatine the Cannes Film Festival, the Journal reported. It volition beryllium made chiefly with the company’s AI tools, including GPT-5, its flagship exemplary that landed with a thud past month. 

Critterz is reportedly being made connected a fund of little than $30 cardinal successful conscionable 9 months, fractions of what is usually required for animated features. OpenAI, alongside LA- and London-based partners Native Foreign and Vertigo Films, volition beryllium hoping the flick tin person wary Hollywood executives to stake large connected AI, a gangly bid arsenic the manufacture wrestles with dilatory uptake, absorption from endowment and audiences and concerns implicit intelligence spot and originative agency.