Overview

• The company shifts from selling AI tools to originating and producing its own IP under the Utopai Studios banner, with company-reported bookings of about $110 million across global territories.
• Co-CEOs Cecilia Shen and Marco Weber lead the venture, with Jie Yang continuing as CTO, Kirk Petruccelli named chief creative officer, and Martin Weisz serving as chief workflow officer.
• The initial slate features Cortés, written by Nicholas Kazan and planned as two 100-minute films directed by Petruccelli, and Project “Space,” an eight-episode sci‑fi series written by Vanessa Coifman and Weisz with Weisz directing.
• Utopai forms an exclusive sales joint venture with K5 International under the Utopai x K5 banner, with series to be presented at MIPCOM in October and features at the American Film Market in November.
• A strategic agreement with visualization firm Opsis integrates Utopai’s AI-driven previz-to-video pipeline into established workflows, with Opsis praising early results as noteworthy while independent verification is not provided in the coverage.