AI startup Higgsfield AI has released a 110-minute action-comedy film titled 'The Cully Hill Boys,' marking the first fully AI-generated feature-length movie starring licensed celebrity likenesses. Produced in just four weeks on a $2 million budget—half of which was spent on AI tokens—the film follows East London rappers caught between crime cartels. While the movie features a human-written script and correct anatomy, critics note technical limitations like prompt fatigue and an overly polished sheen.
AI-generated feature film production
- ▪Higgsfield AI completed the production of the 110-minute film "The Cully Hill Boys" within a timeline of four weeks.
- ▪Higgsfield AI stated that the company plans to democratize long-form video production and provide scalable AI workflows for creators.
- ▪Higgsfield AI produced a 110-minute action-comedy AI-generated movie titled "The Cully Hill Boys" starring licensed celebrity likenesses.
- ▪The Higgsfield AI film "The Cully Hill Boys" follows a group of struggling East London rappers who steal a boat for a music video and discover it is filled with cash, landing them between rival crime cartels.
Production budget breakdown
- ▪The production of the Higgsfield AI film "The Cully Hill Boys" was completed with a total budget of $2 million.
- ▪Half of the $2 million production budget for the Higgsfield AI film "The Cully Hill Boys" was spent on AI tokens.
Film quality assessment
- ▪The Higgsfield AI film "The Cully Hill Boys" exhibits an unrealistic, over-polished sheen at times, and some scenes show prompt fatigue where characters react nonchalantly to violence.
- ▪The characters in "The Cully Hill Boys" have the correct number of fingers, representing progress from the uncanny 2023 AI-generated clip of Will Smith eating spaghetti.
- ▪Higgsfield AI hired a human screenwriter to write the dialogue for "The Cully Hill Boys" to provide an authorial voice underneath the AI-generated images.
- ▪In the context of AI-generated films like "The Cully Hill Boys," poor prompting by creators is considered the equivalent of bad acting.
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