AI Video/Image Model Arms Race & Hollywood Adoption

The frontier is moving from isolated clips toward directed, iterative production with reference control, continuity tools, synchronized audio, hybrid editing, editable timelines, and professional delivery. Recent Veo 3, Seedance, Manus, character-consistency, and AI-film workflow examples support the production-stack thesis, but quality, cost, rights, labor economics, and sustained Hollywood demand remain unproven.