Hollywood AI Strategy

Hollywood producers balance AI innovation in script revival with creative irreplaceability:

• Reviving ideas: Amy Hobby and Avi Weider's Films Not...

Disney CEO Transition

• 🔥 Josh D’Amaro Named New CEO: Josh D’Amaro, former chairman of Disney Experiences, is set to become Disney's new CEO...

Key challenges for incoming CEO Josh D’Amaro (March 18 handover):

• AI disruptions: $1B OpenAI investment amid copyright lawsuits with startups;...

Swift audience resistance halts AI short film screenings at AMC after online complaints.

• Logan Paul 100% AI movie drops online with small team,...

• CEO update: Jensen Huang says NVIDIA continues to work with OpenAI toward a partnership agreement and believes they are close.
• Long-term...

Internal labor clash intensifies at WGA West: Staff union on strike since Feb. 17 demands AI protections, pay raises, and grievance procedures,...

Hollywood reaches a breaking point with AI, shifting from cautious experiments like de-aging to aggressive resistance.

• Seedance panic: Impressive...

Global regulatory voids amplify AI's threat to creative industries, projecting 21% revenue losses for audiovisual creators by 2028 due to cheap AI...

IP Enforcement and Partnerships

• 🔥 Disney-OpenAI Licensing Deal: OpenAI struck a licensing agreement to use Disney's characters and other...

Sony leads major studios in fighting AI training misuse with new tech that identifies original music sources in AI outputs.

• Detection process:...

• Targets minors: Criminalizes creating fake digital depictions under 18 without consent, with prison for reputation damage—even with disclaimers.
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MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin discusses AI's reshape of global entertainment after India meetings with Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

• India as benchmark:...

Hollywood stars face growing AI deepfake risks, but patchwork laws offer key protections:

• Right of Publicity under state law blocks unauthorized use...

Divergent takes on AI's screenwriter threat:

• No change: Spyder Dobrofsky insists breaking into Hollywood stays exactly the same; AI erases writing's...

Key outreach moves post-Disney partnership:

• Hired Charles Porch, ex-Instagram partnerships head with celeb ties (e.g., Beyoncé, Harry Styles), for a...

Escalating pushback signals regulatory momentum on AI tools in Hollywood:

• Disney fires off cease-and-desist over Seedance 2.0
• SAG-AFTRA condemns...

• Real-time vertical clips from live broadcasts for TikTok/Reels, using agentic AI with no human input—scales production sans extra staff.
• Fox...

Hollywood's AI actor wave accelerates from respectful posthumous uses to full synthetics, fueling job loss fears:

• Val Kilmer revival:...

AMC Theatres abruptly canceled screening an award-winning AI-generated short film from Frame Forward AI Fest, citing lack of consultation.

Key...

Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary's Texas AI firm General Cinema Dynamics attracts investors for full features.

• Three AI movies in active...