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AI's Entertainment Industry Impact
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (132+ words) AI's Entertainment Industry Impact'The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter's coverage of generative artificial intelligence as it impacts the entertainment industry. OpenAI's CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios' characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users. Insiders…...
Prime Video Cancels ‘The Runarounds’
12+ hour, 51+ min ago (235+ words) The Runarounds has been canceled after one season at Prime Video. The news comes after the installment dropped on the streamer in the beginning of September, with no word on its future since. The coming-of-age drama hailed from Outer Banks…...
Amazon MGM Studios Reorgs TV “Worldbuilding” Team, Matthew King and Adrienne O’Riain Depart
14+ hour, 5+ min ago (211+ words) Blair Fetter restructures his genre series team. Amazon MGM Studios is reorganizing its Worldbuilding Series team, whatever that is. (OK, it's genre TV on a large scale, like Lord of the Rings.) As part of the restructuring, Matthew King and…...
Hollywood Assistants Are Using AI Despite Their Better Judgement — Including in Script Development
16+ hour, 3+ min ago (640+ words) Industry watchers fearing the encroachment of generative AI may be expecting Tilly Norwood to show up in the next Fast and Furious movie or an AI-generated screenplay to end up on the Black List. But the realities of that kind…...
The Most Powerful People in the World Are Obsessed With Media Again
21+ hour, 9+ min ago (610+ words) Sam Altman is buying his favorite show, Larry Ellison is buying CNN to merge it with CBS News, Jamie Dimon is toying with launching a venture. It may mark a new era of vanity media owners. It's a tale as…...
OpenAI Gets Into Media, Buys Streaming Business Talk Show TBPN
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (270+ words) The red-hot streaming show features newsmaking interviews, with a heavy emphasis on tech. Now they will do it for OpenAI: "The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us." OpenAI is getting into the media business. The AI tech giant…...
While British Adults Are Less Active on Social Media, More Than Half Now Rely on AI Tools
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (275+ words) While British adults are less active on social media, more than half now use AI tools, a new report from the U.K.s media regulator has found. The report found that U.K. adults are officially less active on social media, favoring "limited…...
CNN Veteran Laurie Segall Wants to Take a “Mostly Human” Approach to Covering AI and Big Tech
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (698+ words) The journalist is launching a new media company, with plans to take a deeper look into the ways technology is shaping our lives, kicking off with a Sam Altman interview. Laurie Segall, the former technology correspondent for CNN and a…...
Canal+ Names Anne‑Laure Tingry Chief Data & AI Officer
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (179+ words) Canal+ Names Anne'Laure Tingry Chief Data & AI Officer'The Hollywood Reporter Reporting to CEO Maxime Saada, she will be responsible for data and AI strategy across all of the media company's markets and oversee "the implementation of projects in these areas....
Kathleen Kennedy Just Told an AI Conference She’s Not So Sure About AI
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (118+ words) The longtime Spielberg producer and 'Star Wars' overseer says the absence of human experience on AI-driven projects gives her pause. She also said that when it comes to Big Tech "what's missing in the discussion right now is transparency." Senior…...