Prime Video Buys a Turkish Spin-Off Made by an AI Studio
Prime Video has taken global rights to “Çukur: Vartolu,” a film spin-off of the Turkish series “Çukur,” known internationally as “The Pit,” Variety reports. The production comes from Ay Yapim under AI Yapim, its Singapore-based artificial intelligence studio, which in August launched the AI-generated historical drama “Castle Walls.” The spin-off is the second AI-made project from the same outfit, and this one arrives attached to an existing hit.
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The franchise may be doing more of the selling here than the production method. A spin-off of an established series already comes with an audience that a standalone AI experiment would have to earn.
Or the platform is buying a cheap experiment: recognizable title, unfamiliar pipeline, and a way to see whether viewers care who — or what — made it.
Both readings can be true at once, and neither settles the question the format actually raises: whether audiences will watch past the novelty once the novelty is the marketing.