Erik Barmack
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Sora 2 Shook Hollywood. This AI CEO is Helping the Industry ‘Take a F-ing Stand’
Backed by CAA and Comcast Ventures, Bryn Mooser and co-founder Natasha Lyonne’s Asteria is an AI model safeguarding IP in an era of copyright chaos
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Sora 2 and the Day Hollywood Went to War
Forget Tilly Norwood. OpenAI’s new cinematic model can fake anyone and anything — and power players finally draw their line
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‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight
Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover
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OpenAI’s $30M Animated Film is Coming. Pixar Should Be Worried
‘Critterz’ will be made in 9 months and debut at Cannes ’26. The existential stakes couldn’t be higher
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Musk’s X-Integrated Insta-Deepfakes: More Insidious Than You Imagine
Grok Imagine’s hellish ecosystem where writers, actors, directors — and copyright itself — cease to matter
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Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’: Hollywood’s Dazzling Future or Dark Warning?
For audiences, it’s breathtaking; for the workforce, it’s a test
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‘What’s Ethical AI?’: The AI CEO Netflix, A24 & Disney Rely On (But Can’t Control)
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela tells me regulation will ‘stifle’ innovation, and he won’t put the genie back in the bottle: ‘You take the responsibility’
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Why CAA Bet on This AI Startup: ‘Consent and Control’ for Clients
The agency’s Alexandra Shannon and Moonvalley CEO Naeem Talukdar tell me about the tech trained entirely on licensed video data
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The AI Making Indie Sci-Fi Budgets Possible (James Cameron’s Team Agrees)
Actor Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic’s Wonder Dynamics streamlines VFX, cuts costs and is backed by the software giant that helped power ‘Avatar’
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The $2K Ad That Shook the NBA Finals — and Put Hollywood Production on Notice
Google’s Veo 3 blends image, sound and movement, bringing cinematic creation (and an industry’s apocalypse) closer










