Its an unnecessary industry.
Ivory handled buggy whips might be nice but it isnt really a global commercial industry anymore.
IPs are worthless, they need to understand that they are just pissing away money.
You and many of the others have stories/universes inside yourselves that are every bit as good as the Marvel catalog or Star Trek/Wars.
Those that can prompt with the most imagination will create new movies that will be distributed world wide and no one will have to go to a theater at all or wait for it.
I could release my series online and be a number one “box office” crushing movie producer on March 8th, 2038 for an unprecedented length of 15 minutes from 14:09-14:24 generating $3 billion from my kitchen table. AI can do it all for virtually nothing and in no time.
The entire past movie production and consumption paradigm has already been destroyed. Its headless but they are still trying to revive a twitching corpse.
Video Killed the Radio Star.
AI will kill the Hollywood Star.