Roger Avery Claims AI Tech Instantly Unlocked Funding For Three New Movies

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Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary recently stated that simply adding “AI” to a project proposal has opened doors that traditional filmmaking routes kept firmly shut.

During a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Avary described the contrast between his struggles to secure funding through conventional channels and the immediate success he experienced when pitching AI-enhanced film projects.

“I find it almost impossible to get a movie going,” Avary explained about the traditional route, which typically involves extensive travel to Europe and meetings with established companies like A24.

The breakthrough came when Avary pivoted to developing technology-based filmmaking.

“I built a technology company over the last year, basically making AI movies, and all of a sudden, boom, like that, money gets thrown at it,” he said. The key difference? “Just by attaching the word AI and that it’s a technology-based company, all of a sudden investors came in.”

Avary is now in production on three feature films through his company General Cinema Dynamics, which he formed in partnership with Massive Studios AI.

The slate includes a family Christmas movie scheduled for theatrical release this holiday season, a faith-based film planned for Easter, and what he describes as a “big romantic war epic.”

The financial implications are remarkable. Avary noted that sophisticated visual effects that once cost a million dollars per minute can now be produced for approximately $5,000 per minute using AI-enhanced techniques.

Avary, who won an Oscar for co-writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, acknowledges the controversy surrounding AI in filmmaking. Many prominent directors, including Guillermo del Toro, have expressed strong opposition to the technology.

However, Avary views it differently: “All it is is visual effects.”

His company has developed what he describes as a “proprietary stack of technology” for their production process. While based in Texas, Avary’s approach represents a new model for independent filmmaking that bypasses traditional Hollywood financing structures entirely.