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June 4, 2025

Exclusive: ElevenLabs and Oscar winner Danny Boyle back AI startup Wonder's ‘Black Mirror’-style film series

The anthology series will launch on YouTube and Vimeo in July


Wonder cofounders Justin Hackney and Xavier Collins. Image provided by Wonder.

ElevenLabs, the buzzy synthetic voice startup, and Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle have backed an upcoming series of “Black Mirror”-style short films from creative studio Wonder, made using GenAI tools.

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Maya Dharampal-Hornby

Maya Dharampal-Hornby is Sifted's editorial assistant and producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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