At present, watching a piece of foreign language content that’s been dubbed in English is an exercise in discomfort.
Thanks to the proliferation of local-language film and TV — brought to us mostly by streaming platforms — the experience of viewing a dubbed Danish crime procedural or a Spanish boarding school soap opera are nightmarish trips to the Uncanny Valley. That’s the term widely used for technology that does not suspend our disbelief and, in fact, takes human resemblance and tosses it into a blender of dystopian nightmares.
Enter Flawless, an AI-driven filmmaking studio that wants you to stream buzzy shows and still be able to sleep at night (sans visions of mismatching mouth movements and brutal scene cuts). Founded in 2018 by multi-hyphenate director Scott Mann and Nick Lynes, Flawless’ proprietary tech TrueSync maps over the faces of actors and delivers translations that are the most impressive we’ve seen...
Thanks to the proliferation of local-language film and TV — brought to us mostly by streaming platforms — the experience of viewing a dubbed Danish crime procedural or a Spanish boarding school soap opera are nightmarish trips to the Uncanny Valley. That’s the term widely used for technology that does not suspend our disbelief and, in fact, takes human resemblance and tosses it into a blender of dystopian nightmares.
Enter Flawless, an AI-driven filmmaking studio that wants you to stream buzzy shows and still be able to sleep at night (sans visions of mismatching mouth movements and brutal scene cuts). Founded in 2018 by multi-hyphenate director Scott Mann and Nick Lynes, Flawless’ proprietary tech TrueSync maps over the faces of actors and delivers translations that are the most impressive we’ve seen...
- 7/11/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Horror and thriller directors Michael and Peter Spierig (Lionsgate’s Jigsaw) are set to direct Fall 2, it was announced by Capstone Studios’ CEO Christian Mercuri. Scott Mann, who directed and co-wrote the first film, is returning to co-write Fall 2 with Jonathan Frank.
Following the successful survival thriller Fall released in 2022 by Lionsgate, Fall 2 will reunite producers Mark Lane and James Harris of Tea Shop Productions (47 Meters Down), Capstone’s Christian Mercuri, David Haring, and Scott Mann via the Flawless banner.
Dan Asma, John Long, and Roman Viaris will also reunite as executive producers alongside Capstone’s Ruzanna Kegeyan. Capstone will finance the sequel, with Fall 2 set to begin shooting in June 2024.
Capstone Global is handling worldwide rights to the franchise. In late 2023, Capstone Studios greenlit both Fall 2 and Fall 3 under the franchise. Mann will return to write and direct the third installment.
“We’re extremely excited to helm the second...
Following the successful survival thriller Fall released in 2022 by Lionsgate, Fall 2 will reunite producers Mark Lane and James Harris of Tea Shop Productions (47 Meters Down), Capstone’s Christian Mercuri, David Haring, and Scott Mann via the Flawless banner.
Dan Asma, John Long, and Roman Viaris will also reunite as executive producers alongside Capstone’s Ruzanna Kegeyan. Capstone will finance the sequel, with Fall 2 set to begin shooting in June 2024.
Capstone Global is handling worldwide rights to the franchise. In late 2023, Capstone Studios greenlit both Fall 2 and Fall 3 under the franchise. Mann will return to write and direct the third installment.
“We’re extremely excited to helm the second...
- 5/16/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Tech company and AI pioneer Flawless and the UK’s Tea Shop Productions have launched a production partnership in Cannes backed by an initial $100m fund.
Flawless Productions plans to produce and fully finance up to 10 commercial genre features in its first year. Flawless co-founders and co-CEOs Scott Mann and Nick Lynes announce the partnership and are taking meetings here with Tea Shop co-founders James Harris and Mark Lane will run the venture.
Tea Shop, which is currently in production in the UK on the Naseem Hamed boxing biopic Giant with AGC Studios and White Star Productions, will continue its own production work,...
Flawless Productions plans to produce and fully finance up to 10 commercial genre features in its first year. Flawless co-founders and co-CEOs Scott Mann and Nick Lynes announce the partnership and are taking meetings here with Tea Shop co-founders James Harris and Mark Lane will run the venture.
Tea Shop, which is currently in production in the UK on the Naseem Hamed boxing biopic Giant with AGC Studios and White Star Productions, will continue its own production work,...
- 5/14/2024
- ScreenDaily
Longtime Google executive Tim Carter has joined the artificial intelligence company Flawless as head of its Artistic Rights Treasury group.
The recently-announced division (A.R.T.) is a rights management platform for creative industries looking to advance with the use of AI, while still respecting creators and asset holders.
Carter will be named vice president of ecosystems, having most recently spent nine years at Google developing and expanding the Android platform. His expertise in IP law and systems will help implement the Flawless tech at scale for film industry labor agreements and working practices that apply to AI editing and content generation tools.
He will report to Flawless co-CEOs and co-founders Nick Lynes and Scott Mann.
“Tim is one of the world’s most capable and experienced individuals in this space, having succeeded in building and distributing not only the unparalleled Android ecosystem outside the U.S., but also platforms in global health,...
The recently-announced division (A.R.T.) is a rights management platform for creative industries looking to advance with the use of AI, while still respecting creators and asset holders.
Carter will be named vice president of ecosystems, having most recently spent nine years at Google developing and expanding the Android platform. His expertise in IP law and systems will help implement the Flawless tech at scale for film industry labor agreements and working practices that apply to AI editing and content generation tools.
He will report to Flawless co-CEOs and co-founders Nick Lynes and Scott Mann.
“Tim is one of the world’s most capable and experienced individuals in this space, having succeeded in building and distributing not only the unparalleled Android ecosystem outside the U.S., but also platforms in global health,...
- 9/12/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: AI is in the eye of the storm in LA right now amid the writers’ strike and is also a talking point at the Cannes Film Festival due to the de-aging of Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny.
We can reveal an interesting development in the Cannes market with news that generative AI firm Flawless, co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann (Fall), is partnering with U.S. seller and distributor XYZ Films (Run Rabbit Run) and UK producer Tea Shop Productions (47 Meters Down) to acquire rights to foreign-language films, converting them to English for distribution in English-speaking territories.
The plan is for Flawless’ TrueSync technology to create lip-synced versions of acquired titles, and XYZ will distribute them. The idea is to offer an alternative to subtitles and out-of-sync dubs. The company will also distribute the original versions alongside.
The TrueSync tech was used in recent...
We can reveal an interesting development in the Cannes market with news that generative AI firm Flawless, co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann (Fall), is partnering with U.S. seller and distributor XYZ Films (Run Rabbit Run) and UK producer Tea Shop Productions (47 Meters Down) to acquire rights to foreign-language films, converting them to English for distribution in English-speaking territories.
The plan is for Flawless’ TrueSync technology to create lip-synced versions of acquired titles, and XYZ will distribute them. The idea is to offer an alternative to subtitles and out-of-sync dubs. The company will also distribute the original versions alongside.
The TrueSync tech was used in recent...
- 5/19/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Executive to serve as Chief Strategic Officer.
Industry veteran Peter Busch has become the latest studio veteran to join the senior executive ranks at A.I. generative technology company Flawless and has been appointed Chief Strategic Officer.
Busch brings more than 20 years of industry experience in film production, technology growth stage and go-to-market. He started his career in traditional 2D and 3D animation at Warner Bros and Paramount.
The new arrival also worked at computer vision company Image Metrics where he played an instrumental role in the adoption of its facial animation technology on The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,...
Industry veteran Peter Busch has become the latest studio veteran to join the senior executive ranks at A.I. generative technology company Flawless and has been appointed Chief Strategic Officer.
Busch brings more than 20 years of industry experience in film production, technology growth stage and go-to-market. He started his career in traditional 2D and 3D animation at Warner Bros and Paramount.
The new arrival also worked at computer vision company Image Metrics where he played an instrumental role in the adoption of its facial animation technology on The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,...
- 3/21/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Executive to serve as Chief Strategic Officer.
Industry veteran Peter Busch has become the latest studio veteran to join the senior executive ranks at generative A.I. technology company Flawless and has been appointed Chief Strategic Officer.
Busch brings more than 20 years of industry experience in film production, technology growth stage and go-to-market. He started his career in traditional 2D and 3D animation at Warner Bros and Paramount.
The new arrival also worked at computer vision company Image Metrics where he played an instrumental role in the adoption of its facial animation technology on The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,...
Industry veteran Peter Busch has become the latest studio veteran to join the senior executive ranks at generative A.I. technology company Flawless and has been appointed Chief Strategic Officer.
Busch brings more than 20 years of industry experience in film production, technology growth stage and go-to-market. He started his career in traditional 2D and 3D animation at Warner Bros and Paramount.
The new arrival also worked at computer vision company Image Metrics where he played an instrumental role in the adoption of its facial animation technology on The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,...
- 3/21/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Company has created technology to lip-sync in any language.
Former Lionsgate motion picture group COO Jen Hollingsworth has joined the senior executive ranks of Flawless, the creator of AI technology for film, television and commercials.
Hollingsworth joins as chief commercial officer and will among other things oversee the company’s exclusive partners programme, reporting to co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Lynes and Scott Mann.
Flawless, whose board of advisors includes former president of Columbia Pictures Peter Schlessel, recently deployed TrueSync, a visual dubbing technology that uses generative AI to create lip-syncs in any language and can change expletives into PG-13-safe language,...
Former Lionsgate motion picture group COO Jen Hollingsworth has joined the senior executive ranks of Flawless, the creator of AI technology for film, television and commercials.
Hollingsworth joins as chief commercial officer and will among other things oversee the company’s exclusive partners programme, reporting to co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Lynes and Scott Mann.
Flawless, whose board of advisors includes former president of Columbia Pictures Peter Schlessel, recently deployed TrueSync, a visual dubbing technology that uses generative AI to create lip-syncs in any language and can change expletives into PG-13-safe language,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Jen Hollingsworth will be joining the AI company Flawless in the role of Chief Commercial Officer. Flawless is an award-winning company specializing in generative AI [Artificial Intelligence] for film, television and commercials. Hollingsworth, who recently served as Chief Operating Officer of the Motion Picture Group for Lionsgate, will oversee all commercial strategy in her new position.
She will collaborate with executives and content creators while reporting to Nick Lynes and Scott Mann. They are Flawless’ Co-Founders and Co-ceos.
In a joint statement, Lynes and Mann said, “We are thrilled to welcome an executive of Jen’s stature and expertise to Flawless as we embark on the next phase of our growth trajectory — pioneering and scaling generative AI. Jen is well prepared and mission-critical to bringing our platform and product to the wider entertainment industry as we all grapple with both the uncontained promise of AI and the transformative, positive realities of our offerings.
She will collaborate with executives and content creators while reporting to Nick Lynes and Scott Mann. They are Flawless’ Co-Founders and Co-ceos.
In a joint statement, Lynes and Mann said, “We are thrilled to welcome an executive of Jen’s stature and expertise to Flawless as we embark on the next phase of our growth trajectory — pioneering and scaling generative AI. Jen is well prepared and mission-critical to bringing our platform and product to the wider entertainment industry as we all grapple with both the uncontained promise of AI and the transformative, positive realities of our offerings.
- 3/8/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Jen Hollingsworth, a longtime entertainment executive most recently COO of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, is the new chief commercial officer at Flawless, a growing firm specialized in generative AI technology for film and television.
She will oversee all commercial strategy for Flawless, working with executives and content creators “to maximize scalable, positive impact” and expand partnerships for the firm, which is committed to protecting creator and artist rights. She reports to co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Lynes and Scott Mann.
“We are thrilled to welcome an executive of Jen’s stature and expertise to Flawless as we embark on the next phase of our growth trajectory — pioneering and scaling generative AI,” said tech and e-commerce veteran Lynes and producer/director Mann in a joint statement. “Jen is well prepared and mission critical to bringing our platform and product to the wider entertainment industry as we all grapple with both the...
She will oversee all commercial strategy for Flawless, working with executives and content creators “to maximize scalable, positive impact” and expand partnerships for the firm, which is committed to protecting creator and artist rights. She reports to co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Lynes and Scott Mann.
“We are thrilled to welcome an executive of Jen’s stature and expertise to Flawless as we embark on the next phase of our growth trajectory — pioneering and scaling generative AI,” said tech and e-commerce veteran Lynes and producer/director Mann in a joint statement. “Jen is well prepared and mission critical to bringing our platform and product to the wider entertainment industry as we all grapple with both the...
- 3/8/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Generative AI entertainment tech firm Flawless has named Jen Hollingsworth to the role of chief commercial officer, the company said Tuesday.
Hollingsworth previously spent 15 years at Lionsgate, most recently as COO of its Motion Picture Group. At Flawless she will oversee commercial strategy, which will include collaborating with executives and content creators, as well as overseeing the company’s partners program.
She will report to Flawless co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Lynes and Scott Mann. The co-founders said in a joint statement: “We are thrilled to welcome an executive of Jen’s stature and expertise to Flawless as we embark on the next phase of our growth trajectory — pioneering and scaling generative AI. Jen is well prepared and mission critical to bringing our platform and product to the wider entertainment industry as we all grapple with both the uncontained promise of AI and the transformative, positive realities of our offerings.”
Hollingsworth added,...
Hollingsworth previously spent 15 years at Lionsgate, most recently as COO of its Motion Picture Group. At Flawless she will oversee commercial strategy, which will include collaborating with executives and content creators, as well as overseeing the company’s partners program.
She will report to Flawless co-founders and co-CEOs Nick Lynes and Scott Mann. The co-founders said in a joint statement: “We are thrilled to welcome an executive of Jen’s stature and expertise to Flawless as we embark on the next phase of our growth trajectory — pioneering and scaling generative AI. Jen is well prepared and mission critical to bringing our platform and product to the wider entertainment industry as we all grapple with both the uncontained promise of AI and the transformative, positive realities of our offerings.”
Hollingsworth added,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lionsgate thriller Fall will make an estimated 2.5+ million this weekend at 1,548 locations for a PSA of about 1,618. The audience was broader than it might have been after a company founded by director Scott Mann swapped dozens of f-words, moving Fall from an R to a PG-13 rating.
The firm, called Flawless, launched last year to specialize in foreign-language “vubbing,” for visual dubbing, which uses artificial intelligence to subtly shift lip and facial movements to match words spoken. But in Fall, its first project, the urgency was around English-language expletives by English-language actors during a stressful high-altitude shoot in the middle of Covid. Costly reshoots weren’t an option, nor really were cuts.
Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner play best friends and expert climbers stranded 2,000 feet up atop a rickety, abandoned TV tower. Mann shot Fall independently. “We ended up with a film we were very excited about,...
The firm, called Flawless, launched last year to specialize in foreign-language “vubbing,” for visual dubbing, which uses artificial intelligence to subtly shift lip and facial movements to match words spoken. But in Fall, its first project, the urgency was around English-language expletives by English-language actors during a stressful high-altitude shoot in the middle of Covid. Costly reshoots weren’t an option, nor really were cuts.
Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner play best friends and expert climbers stranded 2,000 feet up atop a rickety, abandoned TV tower. Mann shot Fall independently. “We ended up with a film we were very excited about,...
- 8/14/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
British filmmaker Scott Mann directed Robert De Niro in the 2015 action thriller “Heist.” The film was a critical and box office fop ($4 million at the box office on a $15 million budget), so no one could’ve predicted at the time the film’s greatest legacy would be an artificial intelligence that automatically dubs movies into any language. Mann and his business partner Nick Lynes unveiled their new dubbing company Flawless this week in a feature published by Input Magazine. The company uses AI to digitally recreate and edit an actor’s face so that his or her mouth movements match the dub, thus maintaining the authenticity of the performance.
Mann was inspired to create Flawless after he saw a foreign-language dub of “Heist.” The director remembered how obsessive De Niro was in the creation of the character, going so far as to analyze what cufflinks would be best for his character to wear.
Mann was inspired to create Flawless after he saw a foreign-language dub of “Heist.” The director remembered how obsessive De Niro was in the creation of the character, going so far as to analyze what cufflinks would be best for his character to wear.
- 5/4/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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