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No actors, no crew, no ticket sales: ‘So obviously AI’ film flops at China’s box office
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China has ushered artificial intelligence into its cinemas, but the country’s first fully AI-generated feature film has flopped at the box office. Made with no human actors or camera crew, Sanxingdui: Future Past brought in just around 1.8 million yuan (US$270,000) after three weeks in theatres, according to Chinese box office data tracker Beacon Pro.
The figure was well below the film’s reported budget of tens of millions of yuan. The 100-minute sci-fi film is set in a world decades in the...
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