‘CSI’ Creator Anthony Zuiker Developing Cinemalistics, an AI-Generated True-Crime App (EXCLUSIVE)

The project aims to produce AI-generated cinematic and documentary versions of crimes as the story’s saga unfolds

By Corbin Bolies

Corbin Bolies

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“CSI” creator Anthony Zuiker got a phone call about six months ago from his former CAA colleague David Freeman, who left his role as the agency’s digital media chief to found the startup Kynetic Media Ventures, who wanted to figure out a project about “real-time true crime.”

But while Zuiker wasn’t interested in another vertical video project alongside his GammaTime microdrama projects, he was intrigued by the prospect of telling true-crime stories in real time, without the monthslong gap between a breaking crime story and the documentaries that chart each beat.

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