Psychological survival thriller will serve as the studio’s 100-episode proof-of-concept production.
PALM COAST, FL — September 18, 2026 — CineVerge, Inc. announced The Test, a psychological survival thriller created by Christopher C. Odom, as the first rights-controlled series in the company’s developing vertical entertainment slate.
Designed as a 100-episode season for 9:16 mobile viewing, The Test follows Mara Quinn after she becomes trapped inside a clandestine program of life-or-death moral tests. As contestants are pushed to sacrifice one another, Mara discovers that the exact language of the institution’s rules may provide the only path to escape without surrendering her humanity.
The project is structured around four chapters — Survival, Trust, Truth and Power — and is intended to serve as CineVerge’s proof-of-concept for its human-led, AI-assisted production model.
“The premise naturally creates the kind of moral choices, ticking clocks, reversals and cliffhangers that work in serialized vertical storytelling,” said Christopher C. Odom, MFA, PhD, Founder, President & CEO of CineVerge. “It also gives us a demanding first project on which to test the production system we intend to scale.”
CineVerge is developing The Test as the first title in a broader rights-controlled library of original vertical series intended for licensing to vertical microseries platforms.
CineVerge, Inc. is a Delaware C corporation based in Palm Coast, Florida. The company creates human-led, AI-assisted scripted vertical series for licensing to vertical microseries platforms.
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Founder, President & CEO
CineVerge, Inc.
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