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iQIYI opens AI film studio in Shanghai and starts filming Cop in Trouble
iQIYI began filming "Cop in Trouble" at its new 110-square-meter AI film studio in Shanghai on October 28, which it calls China's first. No budget or release date was disclosed.
iQIYI started filming an internet feature called "Cop in Trouble" at a new AI film studio in Shanghai on October 28. The company calls the roughly 110-square-meter facility China's first AI film studio.
The studio supports multi-camera shooting, synchronized high-resolution video and audio recording, digital continuity logging and real-time footage review. On-set footage syncs automatically to NadouPro, iQIYI's AI-powered film and TV production platform, which the company says gives filmmakers immediate access to nearly 30 AI models, including Seedance 2.5 and Kling 4.0, plus hundreds of production-focused AI agents and skills.
What the studio changes on set
iQIYI frames the facility as a way to keep performance intact while making the surrounding production more adjustable. Liang Zhu, iQIYI Vice President and Head of Intelligent Production, put the priority plainly: "An actor's performance is the core of any film or series."
He said the AI studio lets directors preserve that performance while adjusting sets, lighting, costumes, makeup and props more flexibly, "opening up greater creative space for filmmakers and creative professionals alike."
The Shanghai facility follows iQIYI's earlier green-screen and virtual production work. The company says its Hengdian virtual studio delivered production efficiency gains of over 30%. Teams weighing where AI fits into a production pipeline can compare these approaches in AI video creation courses.
The film and the missing numbers
"Cop in Trouble" follows Jian Zhang, a low-ranking constable "whose fame, riches and admiration begin to crack as his web of lies to take down a notorious outlaw begins to unravel."
The release names no budget, no delivery date for the finished film, and no commercial terms with the model providers behind Seedance 2.5 or Kling 4.0. The announcement lands during a steady run of China AI launches this week.
Why this matters for creatives and production teams
The pitch here is iteration speed, not replacement. If sets, lighting and costumes can be adjusted after the performance is captured, the cost of a creative decision drops - and so does the penalty for trying something and changing your mind. That matters for anyone who plans shoots, budgets production time or pitches clients on turnaround. Editors and post teams should note that footage lands in an AI platform by default, which shifts part of the workflow earlier in the process; AI video editing courses cover how those pipelines are structured. For marketers and PR teams, the practical question is whether faster iteration shows up in delivery dates. On this project, iQIYI hasn't said.