Three months after the Midjourney filing, the major studios go after MiniMax — alleging that Hailuo AI generates downloadable images and videos of protected characters and markets itself as a 'Hollywood studio in your pocket.' Unlike the Midjourney complaint, this one is squarely aimed at a video-native consumer product. The legal pressure on AI video moves from image-only systems into the generation tools many filmmakers were actively using, and risk-averse studios start re-reading their pilots' tool stacks.