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MNX announces ‘King of Hollywood’
MUMBAI: MNX, Hollywood’s wild child, launches its biggest property ‘King of Hollywood’, starting December 17, 2018, Monday to Friday @9pm. MNX, the channel that resonates with the youth through its stylish, edgy, fast-paced, new-age, premium content has crafted the property, ‘King of Hollywood’ with an aim to find the biggest Hollywood movie buff of all time. Curated for every Hollywood movie enthusiasts, ‘King of Hollywood’ is a 75-day property featuring 75 super hit Hollywood movies, giving the viewers an opportunity to answer 75 questions and win MNX branded merchandise, mobile phones, bikes, play stations and a trip to every movie enthusiast dream destination, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
To participate in ‘King of Hollywood’ contest, viewers can watch their favorite Hollywood blockbusters Monday to Friday at 9pm -11 pm and give a missed call to answer the simple question that flashes during the movie. Under this property, MNX will feature movies like ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, ‘Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows-2’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘Spectre’, ‘POTC: Curse of The Black Pearl’, ‘The Dark Knight’ and many more.
Vivek Srivastava, EVP & Head Entertainment Cluster, Times Network said, “Hollywood has always been a premier destination for movie aficionados and visiting Hollywood is dream of any ardent movie lover. With ‘King of Hollywood’, viewers can truly complete their Hollywood experience. We have also crafted a robust social media campaign to build ‘King of Hollywood’ as an interactive and engaging property that will entertain every movie enthusiast.”
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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.
