Magic Engine has released six AI features in 15 months
The studio's 90-minute Halloween sequel premiered on Alchemy Streaming via Apple TV and Roku, the sixth feature in a run that began with The Cheep in July 2025.
Key takeaways
- Magic Engine Studios premiered Pumpkin Patch: MOONBREAKER, its sixth feature-length generative film, on the Alchemy Streaming Network on October 17, 2026.
- The film was written and directed by Brian James Gage and made between mid-July and an October 3 wrap, and it is listed at 90 minutes in the release and 87 minutes on the studio's slate page.
- No review of the six features turned up in the sources checked, and the audience figures come from the studio, which says Pumpkin Patch premiered to 135,000+ verified viewers.
- Magic Engine says a seventh feature, Red Nose 3: Silent Nightfall, arrives in December 2026 and would make seven features in 18 months.
Magic Engine Studios premiered its sixth feature-length generative film, Pumpkin Patch: MOONBREAKER, on the Alchemy Streaming Network on October 17, the studio said in an EINPresswire release issued October 5. The National Law Review republished it in full and Today in Cinema ran a rewrite. No trade outlet in the sources checked reported on the film independently.
The count checks out against its slate page, which dates The Cheep to July 2025: six features in 15 months.
The premiere ran as a Halloween double bill on AIMV's Saturday Night at the Movies on the Alchemy Streaming Network, the 2025 Pumpkin Patch at 6:00 PM PST and MOONBREAKER at 7:00 PM PST, on a channel carried by Apple TV and Roku, with a Blu-ray out the same day.
Brian James Gage wrote and directed MOONBREAKER and produced it with CEO Debbi Berlin. The studio says production ran from mid-July to an October 3 wrap, and gives the runtime as 90 minutes in the release and 87 on its slate page.
The pipeline is the product. The release describes one system carrying writing, production design, cinematography, editorial, visual effects, voice, music, sound design, quality control and post. Gage, in August: "The Magic Engine production pipeline is a filmmaking methodology." Berlin's line in this one is the thesis: "Six full-length films in 15 months is not a proof of concept anymore, it's a production model."
The earlier five, with the studio's published runtimes: The Cheep at 67 minutes, Pumpkin Patch at 59, Red Nose 2: Full Metal Ruldoff at 53, The Yellow Knight at 77, Astro Cats: The Movie at 93. That is 349 minutes by the studio's count, and MOONBREAKER takes the slate to 436.
Audience numbers exist only in the studio's sales material. Its licensing pages put The Cheep at 175,000+ verified viewers and Pumpkin Patch at 135,000+, while a September post says Pumpkin Patch drew more than one million views on release and that Fawesome reaches about 75 million U.S. households. Those measure different things, none from a third party, and no review of the six features turned up in the searches behind this piece.
No budget has been published, so cost per minute is the missing number. 436 minutes in 15 months is about 29 finished minutes a month, and MOONBREAKER's window works out to roughly a minute a day. A pace like that moves spend away from crew, sets and cast and into one writer-director's time plus generation, and each sequel reuses assets built for the last. The only price the studio publishes is exhibition: a single-event theatrical license through its K13 Media arm costs $333, break-even about 24 tickets at $14.
Magic Engine says Red Nose 3: Silent Nightfall lands in December 2026, taking the slate to seven features in 18 months. Its August announcement also said executive producer opportunities would open on MOONBREAKER, so outside money is part of the financing.
To watch: add the Alchemy channel on Roku, or search "Alchemy" in the Apple TV App Store; the 2025 Pumpkin Patch is streaming on Fawesome.