Like it or not, we are potentially only months away from the first AI-generated feature film, and Jason Zada of Secret Level could be the one to deliver it.
Towards the end of 2024, a film called The Heist, clocking in at less than two minutes long, re-ignited debate about the potency of AI in Hollywood.
It was created in just a few days with visuals entirely generated via text-to-video in Google’s Veo 2 platform...
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