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Reel AI: Erik Barmack’s biweekly article for The Ankler
The Animation App That Should Terrify Hollywood
How an addictive AI tool backed by Jared Leto devoured my family — and stands to win the raging war for screen time (h/t Ted Sarandos)
Erik Barmack’s Reel AI Column from The Ankler
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Digital Marilyn at SXSW
An AI-driven recreation of Marilyn Monroe was revealed at SXSW, presenting a new way of fan engagement while sparking criticism on AI use in entertainment.

OpenAI Unveils New Text-to-Video AI Model, Sora
OpenAI introduces Sora, a new AI tool that generates photorealistic and complex videos up to one minute long based on text prompts.

WME Partners with AI Firm to Protect Actors' Digital Rights
William Morris Endeavor collaborates with Vermillio to introduce Trace ID, an AI tool designed to protect actors' intellectual property in the age of AI and deepfakes.
Midjourney Unveils Version 6
The image generation AI model Midjourney released a latest update V6, introducing in-image text and refined prompting features.
MARZ's LipDub AI Revolutionizes Dubbing for Global Audiences
LipDub AI enables realistic lip synchronization in dubbed movies, aiming to enhance viewing experiences for global audiences.
Avail: New AI Submission Summarization Tool
New AI tool, Avail, is designed to streamline Hollywood's script and book review process, offering detailed summaries and real-time interactive insights.
Meta Launched AI Tools, Reshaping Digital Content Creation
Meta launched two generative AI tools, Emu Edit for image editing and Emu Video for video generation, that can influence digital content creation and social media interactions.

Meta Recruited Striking Actors to Train AI
Tech giants like Meta recruit on-strike actors for AI emotion studies, raising questions about compensation, rights and potential propelling the replacement of human actors by AI avatars.
IMAX Uses AI to “Blowup” Images for IMAX Theaters
IMAX CEO, Richard Gelfond, shares the company's use of AI to upscale non-IMAX footage for enhanced viewing experiences.
OpenAI is developing AI creative writing tools — and they’re far better than ChatGPT
In a Time Magazine essay, screenwriter Simon Rich details how good OpenAI’s not-yet-available generative AI tool, code-davinci-002 is at creative writing.
The Power of AI in Virtual Production
Virtual production is a new tech development transforming film production, and this article explains what it is and how it is made possible with artificial intelligence (AI).
Amazon Develops Multiple Generative AI Initiatives in Entertainment
Amazon CEO revealed the company’s heavy investment in generative AI across its business, including entertainment.
Meta Launches AI Tool that Transforms Text to Music
Meta launched a new open-source generative AI tool, AudioCraft, that easily turns text prompts into audio and music.
SOUTH PARK Episode Generated by AI as Press Demo from Fabel Studio
Fabel Studio released an AI-generated episode of SOUTH PARK to demonstrate the capabilities of their AI tool, but it raises more complications amidst the double strikes in Hollywood.
SpecMonkeyAI: An AI-powered online platform for script analysis and feedback
A high school teacher created an AI-powered website to empower writers with affordable script analysis

Can ChatGPT Cast a Netflix Show for Mexico?
ChatGPT doesn’t know how to balance popularity, genre, age as well as a human, but with the right prompts it can come close.

Unique Collaboration between AI Company StoryFit and Sonoro
Unique partnership that uses AI to determine the best podcast content for adaptation and speeds up development process

Can AI Predict a Movie’s Success Based on a Script?
The start-up Corto.AI has a technology that does the work of an executive
Can ChatGPT Improve THE GODFATHER (1972) script?
We asked Chat GPT to make critical notes and make improvements on the script of the all-time classic, THE GODFATHER.

Can ChatGPT Write a Script?
We asked ChatGPT-4 to Generate 5 minute Romcom Scripts to test it out