‘Merry the Christmas Witch’ Director Estimated Movie Would Cost $80 Million — but Says With AI, He Made It for $1.5 Million (EXCLUSIVE)

By Corbin Bolies

Corbin Bolies

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AI has come for docudramas, for summer blockbusters, even for adaptations of books about farts. What’s left other than holiday films?

Enter “Merry the Christmas Witch.” The film focuses on Merry, the first witch born on Christmas Day, who must defeat a coven of evil witches that has kidnapped Santa Claus in a bid to destroy Christmas. The project is based on a 2012 children’s book by Bobbi Hess, a 70-year-old New Orleans-based technical writer who, in her own words, called the adaptation “a perfect marriage” of subject and technology.

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