<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $100 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $235.9 million </Td> </Tr> <P> A.I. Artificial Intelligence (or simply A.I.) is a 2001 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a story by Ian Watson and the 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss . It was produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis, and stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, and William Hurt . Set in a futuristic post-climate change society, A.I. tells the story of David (Osment), a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love . </P> <P> Development of A.I. originally began with producer - director Stanley Kubrick, after he acquired the rights to Aldiss's story in the early 1970s . Kubrick hired a series of writers until the mid-1990s, including Brian Aldiss, Bob Shaw, Ian Watson, and Sara Maitland . The film languished in protracted development for years, partly because Kubrick felt computer - generated imagery was not advanced enough to create the character of David, whom he believed no child actor would convincingly portray . In 1995, Kubrick handed A.I. to Spielberg, but the film did not gain momentum until Kubrick's death in 1999 . Spielberg remained close to Watson's film treatment for the screenplay . </P>

Movie about a little boy who is a robot