Higgsfield creates 110-minute AI movie with $2M budget, open-sources everything

A San Francisco startup just produced a feature-length action-comedy for roughly $2 million and four weeks of work. The typical indie film takes one to two years and north of $20 million. Higgsfield AI decided that timeline was about 50x too long. The Cully Hill Boys, a 110-minute film about three East London rappers tangled up in a drug war while chasing music careers, premiered on August 5 at The Glasshouse in New York City. The entire thing was generated using AI, from scenes rendered in 4K to performances built from licensed digital likenesses of real people. How a 28-person team replaced a Hollywood production pipeline The film was directed by Aitare Zholdaskali and Adilet Abish, working from an original screenplay by Tim Planagan. Their crew numbered between 25 and 28 people total. Higgsfield built the movie using its proprietary Seedance 2.5 AI video model, developed by ByteDance. The model supports 30-second video clips with native audio, multi-reference inputs, and region editing, essentially letting creators generate and refine cinematic sequences at a granular level before stitching them into a coherent narrative. About half of the roughly $2 million budget went to compu...