No actors, no crew, no ticket sales: ‘So obviously AI’ film flops at China’s box office

China has ushered artificial intelligence into its cinemas, but the country’s first fully AI-generated feature film has flopped at the box office. Made with no human actors or camera crew, Sanxingdui: Future Past brought in just around 1.8 million yuan (US$270,000) after three weeks in theatres, according to Chinese box office data tracker Beacon Pro. The figure was well below…