Walt Disney explores AI’s potential across its diverse segments, from movies to theme parks, amidst concerns and debates within Hollywood’s workforce.
AI Celebrity Deepfakes: An Ethical Minefield
Explore the ethical implications and debates surrounding the use of AI to resurrect deceased actors for new roles. Learn about how this technology might reshape the entertainment industry.
Hollywood.com Sold to Its Own Owner
In a move that comes across like something Jimmy James from Newsradio would do, Hollywood Media chairman and CEO Mitchell Rubenstein has sold the company’s Hollywood.com domain to R&S Investments, which is controlled by Mitchell himself and Hollywood Media President Laurie Silvers.
Writers’ Strike, Internet, May Remake Hollywood
Imagine a return to moviemaking where storytelling as a craft mattered most, and a writer with a dream and some financial backing could do what once required a studio to accomplish.
Hollywood Writers Strike For Internet Dollars
Film and TV writers are striking for the first time in almost twenty years after the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers were unable to reach an agreement.
Google, Hollywood Need To Figure Out Video
Google isn’t the only company that has to determine the best way to protect copyrighted video; the movie and TV studios have to come to grips with a way to let people share content, or forever kill the ability to monetize it online.
Some Hollywood Types Do Actually Get Web 2.0
My best friend is an extremely gifted film talent. But he hated Hollywood, hated the hoops young aspirants had to go through, hated having to play ball, so he left Hollywood and came home to be an English professor. It’s really too bad online video hadn’t taken off just yet.
Microsoft Tells Hollywood To Avoid Filtering
The technology YouTube has in mind to detect and filter content will be a bad deal for the studios, and Microsoft has quietly asked powerful Hollywood honchos to skip it in favor of another option.
HollyWood’s Online Box Office
Hollywood has plans to branch out into online movies in a major way. They have been slow to embrace the Internet but it seems they are realizing the great potential for generating revenue online.
Picture This Hollywood: Online Ads
Instead of spending tons of cash on providing substantial assistance to federal investigations of torrent trackers, maybe the MPAA should use those funds to educate its member studios about the mad, mad, mad, mad world of Internet advertising.