Films

M72 is the AI studio of a feature film company. Dirty Monkey Pictures, founded by director Ning Hao, has released more than twenty films since 2006. Together they have taken over 15 billion RMB (about US$2 billion) at the Chinese box office. The people who made them are the people M72 draws on.

The film company's directors, working for brands

Bayier's Spring FestivalFilm: Crazy Stone · Crazy Alien (Director Ning Hao)

The slate

Selected features from Dirty Monkey Pictures. Box office is mainland China.

Still from No Man's Land
No Man's Land, 2013
Still from Nice View
Nice View, 2022
Still from Crazy Stone
Crazy Stone, 2006

From the films to brand work

The same directors, actors and stories, at a different length.

FilmNo More Bets2023 · 3.85bn RMB

No More Bets: New Leads

The film's world continued as a seven-episode thriller for TCL, with the film's director Shen Ao as executive producer.

FilmOnce Upon a Time in the Middle East2026 · 2.4bn RMB

The spin-off, for Yili

The restaurant's hardest-working waiter gets his own story in a film for Yili. Wen Muye, who directed the feature, is art consultant.

FilmCrazy Stone · Crazy AlienDirector Ning Hao

Bayier's Spring Festival

A 22-minute New Year film for BMW, written and directed like one of his features and set in his hometown.

FilmThe Hutong Cowboy2024 · co-director Xu Lei

New Year Express

Xu Lei directs and Ning Hao executive-produces a 25-minute film for Honor of Kings and Xinhua. 6.2 billion impressions.

FilmAre You Lonesome Tonight?Director Wen Shipei

Unknown Animal

One of three films in BMW AHEAD, executive-produced by Ning Hao. 232 million views across the series.

FilmLand of Broken Hearts2024 · with Zhu Zhu

Art, Lightly

Zhu Zhu, from the film's cast, directs and performs in TCL's art film; the film's director Wen Shipei executive-produces.

72 Transformations

72 Transformations is Dirty Monkey Pictures' program for young directors. The directors of Dying to Survive, No More Bets, Brotherhood of Blades II and Are You Lonesome Tonight? came through it. M72 takes its name from the same place: Monkey 72, the seventy-two transformations of the Monkey King.

Some of M72's directors come from the program; others come from China's animation, commercial and AI film community. Meet the directors.

What a film company brings to a brand film

  • Directors

    The person who owns the story, the tone and the shot list has made a feature. Someone who can hold ninety minutes knows what to keep in thirty seconds.

  • Art departments

    When a film needs a designed world, we bring in production designers from features. Their credits include Journey to the West (2021), Painted Skin: The Resurrection, The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman, No Man's Land and Mojin: The Lost Legend. In AI production the look is still set by a person first.

  • Cast

    Brand films draw on the same actors as the features. New Year Express, Glory City and TCL's art film are all led by film actors.

  • IP

    A film people have seen can extend into brand work. No More Bets: New Leads is a seven-episode spin-off made for TCL; the spin-off from Once Upon a Time in the Middle East was made for Yili.

Dirty Monkey makes features. M72 makes everything shorter.

See the workMeet the directors
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