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Sony Pix to premiere ‘American Hustle’
MUMBAI: Sony Pix will be premiering American Hustle, a black comedy crime movie for the first time on Indian television. The movie is inspired by the real life story of FBI ABSCAM operation and will air on 26 December at 9 pm.
The movie is presented by Moto 360 in association with Adidas and Van Heusen.
Directed by David O Russell, the movie highlights the scandals of 1970s and portrays the story of a con man named Irving Rosenfeld played by Christian Bale, who along with his partner Sydney Prosser played by Amy Adams, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent named Richie DiMaso played by Bradley Cooper.
DiMaso pushes them into the world of the Jersey powerbrokers and the mafia that is as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner plays Carmine Polito, the political operator caught between the con-artists and the Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn played by Jennifer Lawrence, could be identified as the one to bring the entire world crashing down like a delicate pack of cards.
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Utopai Studios partners Huace to deploy PAI for long form content
Deal includes revenue sharing as Huace adopts AI engine across global ops
MUMBAI: Lights, camera… algorithm, the script just got a silicon co-writer. In a move that signals how storytelling itself is being re-engineered, U.S.-based Utopai Studios has partnered China’s Huace Film & TV Co. Ltd. to bring artificial general intelligence into the heart of long-form content creation.
At the centre of the deal is PAI, Utopai’s cinematic storytelling system, which Huace will deploy as a core engine across its production pipeline from development and creative iteration to global localisation. The partnership includes a large-scale annual usage commitment from Huace, alongside a usage-based revenue-sharing model, underscoring both ambition and commercial confidence on both sides.
For Huace, one of China’s largest film and television companies, the bet is not on automation alone but on scale with control. With distribution spanning over 200 countries and a presence across more than 20 international platforms, including Netflix and YouTube, the company brings a vast content ecosystem where even marginal efficiency gains can translate into significant output shifts. Its extensive TV IP library further positions it as fertile ground for AI-assisted storytelling workflows.
The choice of PAI follows what Huace described as a rigorous evaluation of existing AI tools, many of which remain limited to fragmented use cases such as video generation or editing. What tipped the scales, according to the company, was PAI’s ability to handle long-form narrative complexity maintaining continuity, structure, and creative coherence across entire story arcs rather than isolated clips.
Utopai, for its part, is using the partnership to anchor its international expansion strategy, pitching PAI as an enterprise-ready system built for customisation, privacy, and regulatory adaptability across markets. That positioning becomes particularly relevant as global media companies increasingly scrutinise how AI integrates into proprietary workflows.
The timing is notable. Earlier this month, Utopai upgraded PAI to support three-minute 4K video generation and advanced multi-shot sequencing features designed to tackle one of AI storytelling’s biggest hurdles: consistency across scenes.
What emerges is not just another tech collaboration, but a glimpse into how the grammar of filmmaking could evolve. Because if stories were once crafted frame by frame, the next chapter might just be coded scene by scene.
