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The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that Amazon’s Prime Video has become the first major streaming platform to distribute a fully AI-generated television series, “Castle Walls.”
The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that Casey Bloys is opening HBO’s checkbook with a new deal even as David Ellison’s $80 billion debt spooks Wall Street, while new film chiefs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein inherit an impossible movie math problem.
Oct 10The Ankler’s Alison Brower rounds up reporting from Addie Morfoot, in which Sheila Nevins, Dawn Porter and Josh Braun describe documentary distribution turning brutally selective.
Oct 4The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that A24, fresh off Backrooms becoming its biggest hit ever, is demanding theatrical terms closer to a major studio’s rather than the 40 to 45 percent indies typically take.
Sep 27The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that Paramount has spent $100 million on a Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Kendrick Lamar musical about slavery reparations, but the studio has left it undated. Insiders describe ballooning costs, creative conflicts and long delays on the project.
Sep 14The Ankler’s Alison Brower reports that a group of top executives and creatives, led by Kathleen Kennedy and AFI dean Susan Ruskin, met privately to work out how Hollywood should use generative AI. Richard Rushfield presented their “Human Generative Workflows” framework this week.
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