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Hannah Einbinder Slams AI Creators As "Losers"
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (314+ words) With the fifth and final season of Hacks taking on Hollywood once again, Hannah Einbinder has some thoughts about the role artificial intelligence plays in the industry. The 4x Golden Globe nominee recently slammed generative AI creators as "losers" who are…...
OpenAI Moves Into Media After Acquiring Streaming Series ‘TBPN’
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (186+ words) OpenAI is increasingly moving into the world of entertainment. The company has acquired streaming business series TBPN, which has been described as "What if'SportsCenter'and LinkedIn merged?. The acquisition was announced in a blog post by Fidji Simo, who is the…...
Sam Altman’s Open AI “Working Hard With Disney To Find A World Where They Can Still Do Something Amazing” Post Sora
2+ day, 15+ min ago (300+ words) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company abruptly shuttered its Sora video platform to focus on its "compute and our product capacity," acknowledging that in the process he scuttled a landmark partnership with Disney which had agreed to invest $1 billion…...
Cannes Market Unveils AI For Talent and Creator Economy Summits
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (534+ words) The Cannes Film Festival's March" du Film (May 12-20) is extending its AI For Talent Summit which will mark its second year this May after a one-day inaugural edition last year. The second edition will run on May 15 and 16, with the…...
Kathleen Kennedy Calls Transparency Key To AI Adoption, But Hard To Teach Taste
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (609+ words) Producer Kathleen Kennedy calls herself a tech optimist and a traditionalist both. At a conference this week, she said the creative community would embrace AI faster if there was more transparency around how it's trained and how it's being deployed....
Before Netflix Deal, Ben Affleck's AI Firm Set Aggressive Production Cost-Cutting Targets
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (356+ words) After revealing their surprise acquisition of Ben Affleck-founded AI firm InterPositive last month, Netflix executives and the actor-director emphasized how much it would benefit the creative community. A'patent application filed in 2024 and recently reviewed by Deadline shows that along with…...
Plan B Europe Grows Team With Two Key Producer Hires
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (481+ words) EXCLUSIVE: Plan B Europe, the recently launched London-based subsidiary of Brad Pitt's L.A.-based Plan B Entertainment, is expanding its team with two key producer hires. Former Sony Pictures Television International exec Maria Fleischer joins as Executive Producer, while Charlie Silver…...
Disney Branded Television Launches Nationwide Search For Animation Voice Talent
4+ day, 38+ min ago (347+ words) Disney Branded Television Launches Nationwide Search For Animation Voice Talent'Deadline Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: Disney has launched a nationwide search for emerging voice actors, focused on the art of animation. Disney Branded Television Discovers Voice Talent Search is…...
David Ellison On Cost Savings, Growth, The Tech Stack & AI As WBD Merger
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (403+ words) David Ellison says savings from the Skydance-Paramount merger will significantly exceed the $3 billion initially projected, with $2.5 billion anticipated by the end of this year. And, "We're in the process of basically converging Paramount+, BET+ and Pluto all into one unified…...
How AI-Powered Propaganda Is Shaping U.S.-Iran War
6+ day, 38+ min ago (407+ words) The video spread at a velocity only social media can generate. Missiles rained down on the USS Abraham Lincoln, blasting fighter jets into the sea, the vessel breaking apart in a dramatic fireball " shared millions of times before anyone thought…...