Higgsfield Made a $2M AI Film With Licensed Celebrity Likenesses
Higgsfield's 110-minute AI feature film, made for $2M with licensed celebrity likenesses, is now fully open-sourced — prompts, assets, and all.
- World first: The Cully Hill Boys is the first 110-minute fully AI-generated feature film with legally licensed celebrity likenesses.
- Open-sourced: All prompts, character sheets, location assets, and a 137-entry production log are now public on Higgsfield.
- $2M budget, 4 weeks: A 28-person team produced ~1,000 assets and 100 AI locations; ~$1M went to compute.
- Text-to-video only: Every shot generated from text + reference assets using Seedance on Higgsfield's Cinema Studio — no image-to-video.
- Legal precedent: Likeness and voice rights were contracted before production; source assets deleted within 30 days of wrap.
- Cinema Studio 4.0 preview: The film doubles as a showcase for Higgsfield's upcoming platform update, targeting studios and brands.
The Cully Hill Boys is a 110-minute action-comedy generated entirely with AI, and it just became the most detailed public blueprint for AI filmmaking ever released. The film features AI versions of Israel Adesanya, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, N3on, and Matt "MK" Kiatipis , and it marks the world's first fully AI-generated feature film to star licensed AI celebrity likenesses. Every prompt, character sheet, location asset, and production log is now public on Higgsfield's platform.
A film school in a project page
It took a 28-person team, including nine directors led by Aitore Zholdaskali and Adilet Abish, to adapt Timothy Planagan's original award-winning screenplay into the film. The startup produced the 110-minute movie in four weeks. The digital cast brings to life the story of three struggling East London rappers whose plan to shoot a music video unravels when a stolen boat full of loot lands them between rival crime syndicates.
The production log alone has 137 entries. Every iteration was tracked: what changed, what version, what verdict. That discipline is part of what Higgsfield is now handing over to the public, alongside the CINEDANCE skill , a structured prompt system built specifically for the Seedance video model on Higgsfield's Canvas.
The economics are hard to ignore
In just four weeks, the group , 40 percent of which had no prior AI experience , reportedly produced nearly 1,000 assets, as well as 100 AI-generated locations. The project cost a total of $2 million. For context, the Forbes report notes that independent films of comparable ambition typically demand one to two years and budgets above $20 million. Higgsfield's own previous feature, Hell Grind, was a 95-minute film produced for about $500,000 requiring roughly 100 assets , meaning the team multiplied production scale roughly tenfold in a matter of months.
About half the $2M budget went to AI compute. The rest covered the human team: directors, editors, costume designers, generative artists, and post-production work that no model handles on its own.