Lionsgate, the studio behind popular films series’ like The Hunger Games and John Wick, recently announced it’s letting a startup mine its catalog works with the goal of creating an AI model capable of creating storyboards and other pre- and post-production work.

Lionsgate partnered with AI vendor Runway to create AI-generated films using their film archives. The deal has sparked criticism, with concerns about replacing human creatives in film production. Lionsgate claims the AI model will augment, not displace, human creators in pre- and post-production processes.

The studio behind the “John Wick,” “Hunger Games,” and “Twilight” franchises just made a deal with an artificial intelligence startup to use its back catalog to build a custom AI model. It could be a tipping point.