AI-Themed Sci-Fi Pic ‘The Artifice Girl’ Starring Lance Henriksen Acquired By XYZ Films
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has claimed North American rights to the sci-fi pic The Artifice Girl, starring Tatum Matthews (The Waltons: Homecoming) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens), which this past weekend had its U.S.
premiere at SXSW after world premiering to critical acclaim at Fantasia Film Festival. The film marking the feature debut of writer-director Franklin Rich — which like Uni’s horror hit M3GAN, looks at the increasingly top-of-mind subject of AI through a genre prism — is slated for a theatrical release in 15+ U.S.
Markets, as well as an accompanying digital debut this spring. The Artifice Girl follows a small team of special agents who discover a revolutionary computer program that uses a digital child to catch online predators.
After teaming up with the program’s troubled developer, they soon find that the AI’s inevitable advancement is far more rapid and incalculable than they could have imagined, posing unforeseen challenges and unsettling consequences for the future of technology and mankind.
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