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Artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay, but its potential use in Hollywood movies has sparked some real fears that many jobs could be lost. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are even considering requiring films to disclose any use of AI for next year’s Oscar ceremony. Well, Staircase Studios AI has released the first five minutes of The Woman With Red Hair, an AI-driven movie that the newly launched studio hopes will be the first of many.

Staircase Studios AI was launched by Pouya Shahbazian, a producer on the Divergent franchise. Using its own proprietary AI workflow, known as ForwardMotion, the studio claims it will be able to create “near-studio-quality” movies for under $500,000. The studio plans to produce close to 30 low-budget movies over the next three to four years. “After packaging and selling 150 projects into the studio system over the past 15 years, I’ve borne witness...

“Divergent” franchise producer Pouya Shahbazian has revealed the investors and the first productions planned for his recently-founded Staircase Studios AI, a film, television, and gaming studio centered on an AI workflow. The venture aims to produce more than 30 projects in the next 3-4 years at budgets under $500,000.

The key members of the team include partner and lead investor Kenneth Lerer, who co-founded The Huffington Post and is managing director emeritus of the venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau. Additional investors are Aryeh Bourkoff, CEO of Liontree; Robert Pittman; Tad Haley of Rafiki Ventures; and venture capital firm Red Sea Ventures.

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (“Transformers”) is an advisor to Staircase Studios.

“After packaging and selling 150 projects into the studio system over the past 15 years, I’ve borne witness to far too much inefficiency to continue the status quo,” said Shahbazian, Staircase’s CEO. “The past year, I’ve dedicated myself to...

Staircase Studios AI, a new maker of films, TV series and video games, is promising to deliver “near-major-studio” levels of quality at budgets under $500,000.

The new company was founded by Pouya Shahbazian, producer of the Divergent franchise. With input from Brett Stuart, Head of AI Filmmaking, Staircase has built a proprietary AI workflow called ForwardMotion, which the company says “revolutionizes the process of studio filmmaking.”

The studio says it will aim to produce more than 30 projects in the next three to four years, with photorealistic results. (Take a look at the first film in the video above and read on to see more film and TV titles on the company’s launch slate.)

“Near-major-studio-quality releases” will be the goal, a press release from Staircase said, at budgets under $500,000.

Joining the company as a partner and working as the lead investor in the venture is Kenneth Lerer, who co-founded The Huffington Post...

Pouya Shahbazian, producer of the “Divergent” films and Andrea Arnold’s Cannes Jury Prize-winning “American Honey,” has launched the new AI production company Staircase Studio, which aims to produce 30 films over the next four years at budgets of $500,000 or less through the use of artificial intelligence software.

Huffington Post co-founder Kenneth Lerer is joining the studio as a partner with Lorenzo di Bonaventura signed on as an advisor. Staircase Studios plans to use scripts and performances from human writers and actors as the basis for its films, with the voices and expressions from performers forming the basis for the AI-generated footage.

“After packaging and selling 150 projects into the studio system over

the past 15 years, I’ve borne witness to far too much inefficiency to continue the status quo. Over the past year, I’ve dedicated myself to pairing ethical AI usage with our industry’s most underutilized assets–overlooked stories...

We got some more casting news on The Crown season 5 today, with the announcement that Leslie Manville will be the third actress to play Princess Margaret in Netflix’s royal drama, opposite Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II. While it will be interesting to see how the rest of the cast for the final iteration of the show comes together, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Don’t forget, we have season 4 still to arrive.

Following on from season 3, The Crown season 4 will see the return of Olivia Colman as the Queen, with Helena Bonham Carter as Margaret, Tobias Menzies as Prince Phillip, Ben Daniels as Lord Snowden, Josh O’Connor as Princes Charles, Erin Doherty as Princess Ann and Emerald Fennell as Camilla Parker-Bowles. New cast members joining them for this next run include Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher, Emma Corrin as Princess Diana and Geoffrey Breton as Mark Phillips.