EXCLUSIVE: Peter Luo’s Stars Collective has teamed with the LA-based tech company HashMatrix to construct a slate of AI-generated tasks alongside a brand new AI movie pageant set to launch in 2025.
Below the phrases of the partnership, Stars Collective and HashMatrix will use synthetic intelligence to develop and produce twelve short-form dramas based mostly on Stars Collective’s present mental property.
The AI Movie Pageant will happen in Los Angeles. Organizers informed us the occasion will “showcase groundbreaking AI purposes in movie, and foster collaboration between the 2 industries.”
Stars Collective will oversee the pageant and deal with model licensing alongside outreach to the movie trade with a particular curiosity in Hollywood. HashMatrix has stated it should have interaction AI firms, safe collaborations, and contribute sources from the AI trade.
Based mostly in LA, HashMatrix has collaborated on tasks with firms resembling Ant Group, Alibaba, KlingAI, Minimax, and 01AI. Throughout SF TechWeek, HashMatrix hosted an AI open-source occasion that featured individuals from xAI and Meta AI. Stars Collective was based by Peter Luo (Malignant, Scary Tales to Inform in The Darkish).
Discussing right this moment’s information, Luo stated he and his collaborators are “leaning into the longer term with a best-in-class associate who will assist us make the most of AI to develop visionary content material.”
“Our stance is that AI is a strong storytelling device and potential purposes are too huge to dismiss. We should be forward-thinking in our strategy to leisure,” he stated.
Stars Collective has aggressively elevated its footprint this 12 months and just lately optioned the life rights of Pichaya Soontornyanakij, also referred to as “Chef Pam.” Pam is a Thai-Chinese language-Australian chef and the proprietor of POTONG, a Thai-Chinese language fine-dining Michelin-star restaurant in Bangkok’s Chinatown. The corporate additionally optioned the movie rights to the non-fiction e book ‘Fortune Sons: The 120 Chinese language Boys Who Got here to America, Went to College, and Revolutionized an Historical Civilization’ and is creating a film adaptation alongside Academy Award winner Donna Gigliotti (Silver Linings Playbook, Hidden Figures).
On right this moment’s information, Jennie Wu, Co-Founding father of HashMatrix, added: “We imagine 2025 shall be a defining 12 months for AI because it finds its true software factors and establishes sensible integrations with real-world industries. This can be a vital second the place AI will transition from potential to impactful implementation throughout varied sectors.”
