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An AI Studio Making 'Quality' Movies for Dirt Cheap: Revolutionary or Dystopian?

An AI Studio Making 'Quality' Movies for Dirt Cheap: Revolutionary or Dystopian?

Update: 2025-03-10
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Matt is joined by Pouya Shahbazian to discuss his company, Staircase Studios AI, a film, television, and gaming studio centered on an AI workflow that he claims revolutionizes the process of studio filmmaking. He explains how they plan to deliver “near-major-studio” levels of quality at budgets under $500,000, what their “talent-driven approach” actually looks like, and why this advancement in moviemaking technology should be embraced (02:38 ). Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the future of Meghan Markle’s television show on Netflix (28:21 ).


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Host: Matt Belloni

Guest: Pouya Shahbazian


Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez

Theme Song: Devon Renaldo

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An AI Studio Making 'Quality' Movies for Dirt Cheap: Revolutionary or Dystopian?

An AI Studio Making 'Quality' Movies for Dirt Cheap: Revolutionary or Dystopian?

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