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Grok, Kling, Runway: AI Video’s Future Has Hollywood on the Outside Looking In
Post-Sora, the space is fragmenting into separate ecosystems — and studios and streamers aren’t in any of them
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Why OpenAI Needs ‘TBPN.’ Badly
Sam Altman now knows the next AI arms race isn’t about tech — it’s about narrative
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Eternal Celebrities: The Multi-Billion Opportunity Coming
A shift in law means agents and managers must now act as estate planners as an endless career is within reach (if society can get over the ick factor)
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Eternal Celebrities: A Multi-Billion Opportunity Coming
A shift in law means agents and managers must now act as estate planners as an endless career is within reach (if society can get over the ick factor)
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It’s War: AI’s Horrifying Boiling Point is Here
OpenAI’s new brazen image generator rips off Studio Ghibli, Pixar & Lego. Hollywood, fight now before it’s too late
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Next Cash Cow: AI-Fueled Fan Fiction
IP icons from ‘Friends’ to Harry Potter are being manipulated by consumers. Now it’s time studios and tech worked together
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The Animation App That Should Terrify Hollywood
How an addictive AI tool backed by Jared Leto devoured my family — and stands to win the raging war for screen time (h/t Ted Sarandos)
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7 Big Oscar Categories AI Will Blow Up
An awards season of smears and accusations over the technology can’t stop what’s coming
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How AI Will DOGE H’wood Exec Ranks (& What to Do About It)
Am I at risk of losing my job to OpenAI or DeepSeek? Are you? I explore new advanced ‘reasoning’ tools amid a collapsing exec talent pipeline
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David S. Goyer’s New AI-Powered Sci-Fi Fantasy World: My Interview
The prolific creator launches Incention, a dizzyingly ambitious platform to upend IP that anyone is invited to join: ‘I’m not a proselytizer, I’m not a doomsayer’
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Year of the Full-Length AI Movie
A Hollywood director rekindles excitement (and fear) after a splashy debut using Google’s new AI video model, with feature films looming next
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I Asked OpenAI Sora for a Female ‘Taxi Driver’. This is What Happened
My test drive of the AI video generator everyone’s dreading answers: Will it kill Hollywood?
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How a Netflix Doc Used AI Winston Churchill — For the Better (Really!)
I talk to Imagine’s Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein, producers of ‘Churchill at War’, about how their series fights the narrative about AI
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How a Netflix Doc Used AI Winston Churchill — For the Better (Really!)
I talk to Imagine’s Justin Wilkes and Sara Bernstein, producers of ‘Churchill at War’, about how their series fights the narrative about AI
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The Robots Coming for Hollywood Labor
With android arms and humanoids able to complete precise tasks, physical production could be replaced long before writers and directors
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‘Show’ Biz: AI Storyboarding Changes How We’ll Pitch Scripts
New tools visualize the words on the page, enabling buyers to see what a writer or producer imagines. The screenplay format may never be the same again
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When AI Comes Calling With Cash: Should You Take It?
I try to answer the devilish question of whether Hollywood should agree to license their content to train models as checks get bigger
Reel AI from producer Erik Barmack delivers essential insight into the fast-moving role of AI in Hollywood — the platforms, players, fury and future.