China’s first full AI-generated feature-length film, a historical fantasy called Sanxingdui: Future Past, opened in theaters on Friday.
\n\nJudging by weak advance ticket sales, audiences were not terribly eager to see the landmark $1.5 million movie.
\n\nSanxingdui: Future Past (also translated as Sanxingdui: Future Memory) is based on a legendary real-world archaeological dig in China’s Sichuan province that began in 1986. The Sanxingdui dig unearthed hundreds of artifacts that were over 3,000 years old from a deep pit in mountainous terrain. The most distinctive of these treasures was a group of bronze masks and sculptures with strangely distorted features, such as oddly shaped eyes and enormous ears, that were unlike any other find from that era.
\n\nThe dig also included some huge and elaborate bronze sculptures that were more complex that other works from ancient Sichuan, and the dig site itself was later revealed to be a crumbled city, larger than almost any other from Bronze Age China.
\n\nThe cultural relics displayed at Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China on September 5, 2026. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
\n\nThe other curious detail of the Sanxingdui dig was that many of the artifacts appeared to have been deliberately damaged…
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