Reel AI
-
Apple Music’s Big AI Test: Will Fans Always Choose the Human?
A third of new uploads are synthetic, but account for less than 0.5% of listening. The platforms are betting that may not last
-
Will Audiences Watch AI Actors? In China, the Answer Is Yes
38% of its top 100 short-form shows now feature ‘digital humans’ as fans cross the uncanny valley with ease
Latest Reel AI stories
-
The Oscars’ AI Lie: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Last year’s ‘Brutalist’ controversy gave way to a landscape where the tech is rewarded — as long as it’s cloaked in prestige
-
Anthropic Is a $350 Billion Problem for Hollywood About to Strike
Soon, the company’s Claude will be as standard in industry offices as Slack and Excel — reshaping who gets hired and what gets made
-
8 AI Companies Doing This the Right Way (and Won’t Get You Sued)
My picks for Hollywood to get behind in 2026 as Big Tech’s shortcuts catch up
-
5 Burning Questions Hollywood Should Ask After Trump’s AI Executive Order
From guilds to Gavin Newsom: what studios and creatives need to reckon with now
-
5 Burning Questions Hollywood Should Ask After Trump’s AI Executive Order
From guilds to Gavin Newsom: what studios and creatives need to reckon with now
-
-
When Mickey Met Sam Altman — and What It Means for Every Other Studio Now
Scorched by the Streaming Wars, Bob Iger won’t let Mickey Mouse be steamrolled by Big Tech again. And eventually, all our studios will follow
-
AI Search and the New Hot Mess of Hollywood Discovery
‘What to watch’ is a minefield as Literate AI uncovers major biases around stars, Harry Potter and the MCU — and grim fallout for marketing, greenlights and talent
-
Tilly Norwood: Exec Dream, Union Nightmare and an AI Actor Army Already on Set
SAG-AFTRA is great at fighting the last war, not the one in front of it
-
Fade to Black: Hollywood’s AI-Era Jobs Collapse Is Starting
Amazon plans a 75 percent automated workforce. Now full human creativity may soon only exist for a few indie weirdos
-
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
-
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
-
‘Run It Through GPT-5’: The Phrase Changing Hollywood Overnight
Showrunners, writers, producers & marketing jumped on OpenAI’s update. Industry jobs will never recover
-
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
-
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
-
Sphere’s ‘Wizard of Oz’: Hollywood’s Dazzling Future or Dark Warning?
For audiences, it’s breathtaking; for the workforce, it’s a test
Reel AI from producer Erik Barmack delivers essential insight into the fast-moving role of AI in Hollywood — the platforms, players, fury and future.