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Productions

The world craves the untold story.

While the big studios recycle old IP into reboots, sequels, prequels, and remakes, we make new characters, new worlds, new tales that invite audiences to embrace originality again.

Untold stories are gems, and their potential is huge. They demand responsibility, craftsmanship, care, and love to become real. AI alone cannot make that happen. Human vision brings the unique styles, the happy accidents, the conceptual innovation.

At a glance

Development & production slate

28
Slate titles
5
In production
4
POCs
19
In development
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Cortés

In production
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To be announced
Historical Epic
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Theatrical Feature
Co-produced with
Ex Machina Studios
Starring
Antonio Banderas
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The Most Serious Fart

In production
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2027
Family Comedy
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Theatrical Feature Animation
Starring
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Half Moon

In production
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Coming-of-Age Drama
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Feature
Co-produced with
Germany’s In Good Company & Korea’s Paper Barn Studios
Starring
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Space Nation

In production
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To be announced
Sci-Fi Action
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TV Series · 8 × 45–60 min
Co-produced with
Ex Machina Studios
Starring
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Journey to the West

In production
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Pilot 2027
Mythic Action
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TV Series
Co-produced with
Huace Film & TV
Starring
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Utopai Studios APAC

Partnering with Asia’s most visionary creators.

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Global team

Our global offices

Join us

Mountain View (HQ)

Our headquarters, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Home to our research, technology and engineering teams building PAI, along with business operations, so we’re close to the best technical talent and resources in the industry.

215 Castro Street, Floor 3, Mountain View, CA 94041

Los Angeles

Our production hub, in the center of the entertainment industry. Home to our production, creative and editorial teams, production strategy, product leadership and finance department. It’s also where we meet with filmmakers, talent and partners.

9171 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 300, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Seoul

Our APAC hub, leading development and production in Korea and partnerships across the region.

Tokyo

Utopai Japan, leading development and partnerships in Japan.

How we choose

Stories worth telling, once too big to tell.

We don’t pick projects by what has worked before. We look for stories that have been out of reach, held back by budget, scale, or risk, and use AI, under human direction, to bring them within reach.

That means animation, with whole worlds built from imagination. Art house, where a singular vision matters more than any formula. And big-budget films, epic stories that were once too costly to attempt. Whatever the genre, the test is the same: a great story, and a creator with the vision to tell it.

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