Posted on 08/07/2025 3:50:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
• As AI reshapes how stories are created and consumed, Hollywood faces an existential question: Can it stay culturally central or is it being overtaken?
• Startups like Luma and Moonvalley are pushing the boundaries of AI-native filmmaking, while legacy studios scramble to adapt.
• Depending on how it’s used, AI could spark a creative rebirth or hasten Hollywood’s slide into irrelevance.
• Across conversations with tech CEOs, studio executives and filmmakers, some foresee a renaissance. Others warn of a flood of cheap content and a “Black Mirror”-style future.
At a Starbucks in downtown Culver City, Amit Jain pulls out his iPad Pro and presses play. On-screen, one of his employees at Luma AI — the Silicon Valley startup behind a new wave of generative video tools, which he co-founded and now runs — lumbers through the company’s Palo Alto office, arms swinging, shoulders hunched, pretending to be a monkey. Jain swipes to a second version of the same clip. Same movement, same hallway, but now he is a monkey. Fully rendered and believable, and created in seconds.
“The tagline for this would be, like, iPhone to cinema,” Jain says, flipping through other uncanny clips shared on his company’s Slack. “But, of course, it’s not full cinema yet.” He says it offhandedly — as if he weren’t describing a transformation that could upend not just how movies are made but what Hollywood is even for. If anyone can summon cinematic spectacle with a few taps, what becomes of the place that once called it magic?
Luma’s generative AI platform, Dream Machine, debuted last year and points toward a new kind of moviemaking, one where anyone can make release-grade footage with a few words. Type “a cowboy riding a velociraptor through Times Square,” and it builds the...
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Fancy CGI
I do find it funny that Hollywood, to take advantage of the Chinese market, had to slander America. Until China started producing their high quality movies and Hollywood was mostly left with having to come back to the country it was slandering to make a profit.
Anyone can write a book too but most people don’t
Hollywood is about to die? That’s a shame
(or hasten Hollywood’s slide into irrelevance)
Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
With today’s CGI and AI you can make a movie with John Wayne, Charlie Chaplin and many other long dead actors in it.
You cannot even trust a photo on FB anymore. Too many AI fakes.
I’m still working on my movie, The Other Side Of Darkness, but it looks like that title is taken. My updated working title is The Other Side Of The Dark Side Of The Moon.
Agreed. And to some degree it's been out for a while. Remember Disney/Star Wars using CGI to resurrect actor Peter Cushing for 2016's Rouge One? Of course, back then 9 years ago only an outfit like theirs could pull that off. Now a lot more people can.
Let me know the release
date for “Chunnel”
the sign on the side of a hill...
Chunnel II: Cry, Cry Again.
(Remember Disney/Star Wars using CGI to resurrect actor Peter Cushing for 2016’s Rouge One?)
wow 😲
And (some studio) did similar with Paul Walker in another movie using CGI and his brother
Cry, Cry Again
I saw that once
Matthew24:24
For there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
They can return their focus to excellent acting, sophisticated cinematography, compelling plots and truly novel story lines. Things that are hard to replicate artificially.
Nah, just kidding.
The glories of Communism??
It all depends on what viewers will settle for. The mass market accepts TikTok.
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