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If anyone can make a movie now, what does Hollywood still stand for?
Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug. 7, 2025 3 AM PT | Josh Rottenberg

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cinematography; hollywood; moviemaking; movies; videomaking; videoproduction

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1 posted on 08/07/2025 3:50:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fancy CGI


2 posted on 08/07/2025 3:52:35 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


3 posted on 08/07/2025 3:54:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If you put some water in your gas tank, with your gas, the gas will stay in the tank longer.)
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To: All

Anyone can write a book too but most people don’t


4 posted on 08/07/2025 3:55:25 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hollywood is about to die? That’s a shame


5 posted on 08/07/2025 3:55:29 PM PDT by xp38
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

(or hasten Hollywood’s slide into irrelevance)

Not that there’s anything wrong with that!


6 posted on 08/07/2025 3:55:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


7 posted on 08/07/2025 3:56:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: SaveFerris

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.


8 posted on 08/07/2025 4:01:44 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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.

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.


9 posted on 08/07/2025 4:02:29 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Let me know the release
date for “Chunnel”


10 posted on 08/07/2025 4:02:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the sign on the side of a hill...


11 posted on 08/07/2025 4:03:32 PM PDT by heavy metal (maga... make asylums great again...)
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To: SaveFerris

Chunnel II: Cry, Cry Again.


12 posted on 08/07/2025 4:04:47 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
i enjoy the diaper Ai videos. see if you can tell who these are in one of his latest

13 posted on 08/07/2025 4:06:56 PM PDT by RummyChick
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(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


14 posted on 08/07/2025 4:07:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Larry Lucido

Cry, Cry Again

I saw that once


15 posted on 08/07/2025 4:08:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

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.


16 posted on 08/07/2025 4:08:09 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


17 posted on 08/07/2025 4:08:19 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The glories of Communism??


18 posted on 08/07/2025 4:11:59 PM PDT by Kaiser8408a (i )
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To: SaveFerris
Playing on a double feature with Rochelle, Rochelle?
19 posted on 08/07/2025 4:13:55 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It all depends on what viewers will settle for. The mass market accepts TikTok.


20 posted on 08/07/2025 4:15:28 PM PDT by sphinx
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