--- title: Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market... description: Critterz, an OpenAI-backed animated feature billed as the first mainstream film built on a generative AI pipeline, missed its planned Cannes in-festival... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sora-shutdown-leaves-critterz-at-the-cannes-market-without-its-model-51mvs1hoj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model | daily.dev og:description: Critterz, an OpenAI-backed animated feature billed as the first mainstream film built on a generative AI pipeline, missed its planned Cannes in-festival... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sora-shutdown-leaves-critterz-at-the-cannes-market-without-its-model-51mvs1hoj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/51mVs1hoJ.png og:image:alt: Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sora shutdown leaves Critterz at the Cannes market without its model **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Critterz, an OpenAI-backed animated feature billed as the first mainstream film built on a generative AI pipeline, missed its planned Cannes in-festival premiere. A key reason is that OpenAI shut down Sora in March — the video model central to the film's production pipeline — leaving the project without its core tooling mid-production. The web and app experience went dark on April 26, with the API set to follow in September. The film did appear at the Cannes market with first-look footage for buyers, but the in-festival debut that would have validated the 'AI-made movie' pitch did not happen. OpenAI has reportedly pivoted its video research toward world-simulation for robotics. Critterz producers have not disclosed what tooling replaced Sora, and Cannes 2027 is now the likely next window — though by then multiple other contenders may claim the 'first AI feature' title. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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