The Secret Race To Produce the First AI-Generated Blockbuster Movie * The Gateway Pundit * by Paul Serran
AI-Generated image by Grok
Movie-making is an artifice, so will creators embrace AI?
While many actors and filmmakers go out of their way to bash AI image-generating technology as hard as they can, there’s a secret undercurrent in which Hollywood is all-in on Artificial Intelligence, and the race is on to generate the first AI blockbuster.
Some sectors of the film industry are slow to accept change, with some still refusing to change 35mm film for digital.
The fact is: when creators shun utilizing new tech developments, they are just marrying themselves to an earlier-age’s technological solutions – after all, there’s nothing natural about film-making.
The New York Post reported:
“AI has officially been met with extreme skepticism by more entrenched filmmakers. However — as is always the way in two-faced, back-biting, cutthroat Hollywood — that also means behind the scenes, every studio, filmmaker, and screenwriter worth their salt are desperately trying to harness its power to push the boundaries and create something new to wow audiences with.
‘The space race was about being first, but it was also about inspiring the world that we should keep competing and keep investing [in the technology]. Bigger than being first, which is fleeting, is inspiring the world’, Bryn Mooser, who has two Academy Award nominations for documentary shorts, told The Post.”
What will the encounter between technology and storytelling bring?
AI-generated movies have already been made, but have been mostly online-only affairs that have not reached film audiences worldwide.
Now, big names in the industry are starting to get involved in the new technology.
Even film icon Martin Scorsese has aligned with German AI company Black Forest Labs to use its technology.
“’I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling, and seeing how that can push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences’, he somewhat cryptically told the New York Times.”
Ben Affleck – Wiki Commons
Many are starting to see AI as an edge you can’t do without.
“Seeing the opportunity, Oscar-winner Ben Affleck invested in AI startup InterPositive. They have said their technology can be used to adjust the lighting in scenes, remove stunt ropes, or correct continuity errors — the kind of things that are handy on real sets, shooting real actors.”
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