🎥 Focal launches an AI movie studio

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February 9, 2026

Focal recently launched!

Launch YC: 🎥 Focal - AI movie studio

"AI video creation tool for TV shows and movies."
AI video creation tool that allows anyone to create and share TV episodes and movies. They combine existing video, audio, and language models to make this process simple and straightforward.


Founded by
Robert Cunningham & Felix Wang

Focal is an AI movie studio — They build tools that help users convert books and screenplays into movies. Eventually they will distribute these shows on a platform, similar to Netflix.
Image Credits: Focal

🎥 Focal

Focal manages the entire process of turning a book into a movie, including:

• using language models to adapt books into screenplays
• generating video clips and stitching them together
• generating audio clips to match video
• keeping characters consistent across clips
• lip-syncing characters with dialogue



Learn More

🌐 Visit www.focalml.com to learn more

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Know anyone in the Film/TV industry like screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, and producers? Make the intro!

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