Overview
- Reporting indicates the exclusive partnership that gave Runway access to Lionsgate’s library has not produced the promised capability to generate full movies.
- Sources told The Wrap the catalog is too small to train a robust model, with even Disney’s larger library described as insufficient for convincing results.
- Prototype outputs reportedly showed clunky visuals and odd animation, underscoring broader technical limits seen in tools like Google Veo and OpenAI Sora.
- Lionsgate vice chair Michael Burns had touted rapid AI repackaging of franchises into anime, but he acknowledged any sale would require paying rights participants.
- Lionsgate says its AI efforts remain on track for targeted uses, citing cost-saving applications in licensing and tests such as an AI-generated trailer to pitch an unshot film.