Netflix says AI has touched 300 titles as director claims 40% budget cuts

Variety’s Naman Ramachandran reports that Netflix’s APAC production chief Lee Sung-gyun told a Busan Film Festival panel that AI has been used across roughly 300 Netflix titles, spanning previs, production design, editorial and VFX.

Why it matters. Studios and streamers now have a concrete cost benchmark to push AI adoption further into previs, VFX and editorial workflows.

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