Hollywood AI Strategy

Disney's moves reveal a deliberate IP gatekeeping approach. It granted OpenAI a three-year Sora license covering over 200 Disney and Marvel characters...

Collage launches as a new management and investment firm to help AI-first studios navigate Hollywood guilds, copyright issues, and studio...

Dhar Mann Studios is injecting creator-economy speed into Hollywood with scripts reaching screen in as little as seven days and weekly output...

Disney's creator deal with Dude Perfect funnels the group's 130 million followers and short-form library onto Disney+ and social platforms while...

AI tools are accelerating microdrama output through automated editing and voice generation while shrinking production teams.

• Director Paddy Ma...

Imtiaz Ali stresses that AI remains a tool to enhance creative work, not control it, warning filmmakers against becoming "slaves" to the technology....

New York surged 87% in production spend to $1.61 billion last quarter, narrowing California’s lead to just $147 million amid the latter’s modest 17%...

Zelda Williams issued a direct plea against AI-generated recreations of her late father, calling them exploitative and unwanted.

• Grief...

Peter Rice’s appointment as Chief Content Officer signals Netflix’s push for deeper Hollywood operational expertise and stronger talent relationships...

Filmmaker Christopher Moonlight deploys local AI strictly as an administrative tool to catch typos, name swaps, and formatting errors while generating...

• AI studios including Promise, TrueShort, and Luma AI are opening offices in Culver City and hosting job fairs to recruit filmmakers and displaced...

The push to finish 445 VFX shots in a single week for Spider-Man: Brand New Day underscores the dangers of compressed post-production timelines.

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The newly formed American Entertainment Alliance is lobbying for federal legislation requiring major studios to direct 50% of movie and TV budgets to...

Dragon Studios' Mountain of Graves uses AI platforms for scripting, visuals, and animation, mirroring traditional workflows but replacing sets,...

Apple’s unified memory architecture enables large multimodal models like Muse Spark Open to run on-device for agent workflows.

• Hardware setup: Two...

Professional editors are rapidly adopting AI—but strictly as support, not storyteller.

• 77.5% already use AI, primarily for transcription (60%),...

Disney is extending beyond licensing by embedding Dude Perfect’s content and massive audience deeper into its ecosystem.

• Content flow: Short-form...

Nicolas Cage's refusal to sign an AI waiver for Spider-Noir could end his Amazon partnership, underscoring performer pushback on consent clauses. By...

The Austin AI Film Festival positions community events as testing grounds for generative AI's impact, showcasing how tools democratize access for...

Amazon MGM Studios is hiring a Senior MLE for CreativeFlux to integrate generative models for image, video, and audio directly into production...