KCW STUDIOS

03/04/2025

In case the dead horse hasn't been beat enough; what separates villains from heroes is aim.

And endless bullets, never needing to reload endless bullets.

11/02/2024

What's on everyone's mind? Perspective from Justine Bateman.

Justine Bateman proclaims Hollywood is dead and predicts the future alongside gen AI.

10/30/2024

Robert Downey Jr. says "I intend to sue all future executives" who create a digital replica of him through AI or deepfake technology. And when he's dead? "My law firm will still be very active."

“The idea that somehow [AI] belongs to them because they have these super huge start-ups is a fallacy,” Downey says about figures like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “The problem is when these individuals believe that they are the arbiters of managing this but meanwhile are wanting and/or needing to be seen in a favorable light. That is a massive f*cking error. It turns me off and makes me not want to engage with them because they are not being truthful.”

[Variety]

09/27/2024

09/20/2024

Sure, only to eliminate Storyboard Artists & VFX Crews.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/lionsgate-signs-deal-with-ai-company-runway-hopes-that-ai-can-eliminate-storyboard-artists-and-vfx-crews-243035.html

https://investors.lionsgate.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2024/09-18-2024-140126979

The studi says that replacing human artists with AI will save “millions and millions of dollars.”

09/06/2024

At the annual Bank of America Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference, Vinciquerra said Hollywood is in for “chaos” over the next two years. He predicted the industry is in for a wave of “mergers and bankruptcies and sales and all kinds of fun things,” and that only the biggest companies will survive. Unless, that is, those giants “make some massive mistake or miscalculation” along the way.

Vinciquerra is certainly not the first media executive to predict more consolidation in Hollywood, but he may be the one using the most-damning language.

Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra said he expects 'chaos' in Hollywood over the next two years, with many mergers, sales, and even bankruptcies.

05/31/2024

How is it always the industry experts the ones who ruin the industry?

05/31/2024

Will as tool improve or degrade ?

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/sony-pictures-will-cut-film-costs-using-ai-1235010605/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2Oa7CE8VFDMvSNGAEoOItsb8dYvAQAaTJE72h9rsHOLusBgqO3cFGVsRk_aem_AbJjJb0xm3UvaQYT45i57V088BZ8mmhEixw-RrGOgr4SjevBka0orOH-oOnfsGNUQaYnijzdW7ZxTXYy6sQCbeVD

Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra plans to use AI to cut film costs.