What if the future of Hollywood shifts away from large traditional studios and moves toward small, independent teams that can now turn almost any idea into a finished film using AI. That transition is already taking shape through Nexus, an AI-driven project by pjacefilms. Presented as a hybrid feature film, the creators are releasing weekly episodes while simultaneously developing the full-length movie in parallel. The latest episode made extensive use of Seedance 4K, ByteDance’s multimodal AI video model, integrated via CapCut and rendered in 4K, allowing for more consistent character appearance across different scenes. However, the production cost is still significant. Episode two alone reportedly required around $6,000 in Seedance credits. Work that once required large crews, long production timelines, and major studio budgets is now increasingly being handled by small teams powered by AI tools. Traditional filmmaking still maintains advantages in scale, resources, and overall p...