News Summary

• OpenAI and Vertigo Films plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator.
• The film, called Critterz, will have a budget of less than $30 million.
• Producers hope to make the movie in about nine months, in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May.
• The use of generative AI is controversial in the film industry and in creative fields more generally.
• The bigger question isn't whether these tools can generate a film but rather whether they should -- and whether audiences will want to see it.