Grimes Leads Ai-made Sci-fi Horror Film Headed to Theaters

WHO:

Billboard - Grimes voices a character in *Gods Don’t Give Gifts*.

Variety - The film was directed by Zack London, who works under the moniker Gossip Goblin.

Variety - Grimes is the moniker of experimental pop artist Claire Boucher, whom Variety describes as 38 years old.

WHAT:

Stereogum - *Gods Don’t Give Gifts* is an AI-generated sci-fi anthology.

Stereogum - The film is being submitted for Best Animated Film Oscar contention.

Stereogum - A press release describes Grimes’s character, Zayinth Alda, as “a disaffected NiiroCore aristocrat and niece to Caen Halvorith, inventor of the Substrate Migration Protocol,” who visits a dreamspool dealer in East Cinder’s slums.

Billboard - *Gods Don’t Give Gifts* is described as the first-ever AI-generated film coming to theaters.

Billboard - The film’s visuals were fully generated by artificial intelligence, while Grimes voices a character.

Coming Soon - The movie is an AI-generated science-fiction horror film; its trailer features Grimes.

Variety - Grimes has a cameo in the theater-bound film.

WHERE:

Stereogum - The film is set in the “Second Cycle of Humanity,” a science-fiction, horror-tinged world where transhumanism has changed humanity.

Stereogum - The film is set to receive a U.S. theatrical release.

Billboard - The film is headed to theaters.

Variety - The film is intended for theaters.

WHEN:

Stereogum - The film is set to open Dec. 4.

HOW:

Stereogum - Zack London is independently distributing the film.

Billboard - The film’s visuals were created using artificial intelligence.

Variety - Director Zack London contacted Grimes through direct messages; Variety says he had long been a fan of her.

(UPDATED November 6, 2026 07:02 UTC)

AI-generated sci-fi horror anthology *Gods Don’t Give Gifts* is headed to theaters, with fully AI-created visuals. Grimes voices a character in the film, directed and independently distributed by Zack London. It opens Dec. 4, and is being submitted for Best Animated Film Oscar consideration.

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(UPDATED November 5, 2026 22:15 UTC)

Grimes voices a character in what’s being billed as the first AI-generated film headed to theaters. The science-fiction horror movie’s visuals were created entirely with artificial intelligence. Director Zack London, known as Gossip Goblin, contacted Grimes through direct messages.