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I am Ginger Lee.

And, uh, AI-generated vertical videos are disrupting Hollywood's microdrama boom, with major platforms like DramaBox, DramaWave, and FlairFlow increasingly embracing synthetic actors and settings.

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I am Ginger Lee, and this week we are talking about Hollywood's AI arms race is intensifying as legacy studios and tech upstarts race to embed generative tools across the entertainment pipeline.

Netflix, Amazon, MGM, and Lionsgate have appointed AI executives, with Netflix reporting roughly three hundred titles using generative AI after its nearly six hundred million acquisition of Ben Affleck's Inner Positive.

Martin Scorsese backed, uh... backing of Black Forest Labs marked a high-profile endorsement, though the partnership focuses on research and exploration rather than confirmed production news.

Well, he has to be careful, doesn't he? Industry executives frame AI adoption as inevitable maturation.

"It's a maturing of some of the tools where it actually can be used now," said Eric Weaver of USC's Entertainment Technology Center.

Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuev- Valenzuela [chuckles] predicted AI will become as commonplace in cinema as cameras, with the company planning to drop AI from its festival title next year.

However, public sentiment remains strongly against I- AI in movies and TV, with backlash against films like Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man, that was a while back, and Late Night with the Devil.

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I am Ginger Liu, and the news this week is studios and streamers are scaling micro dramas as a core vertical.

Variety's Entertainment and Technology Summit focused on fan economies and consumer strain.

The global market for generative AI in movies is projected to reach one point three billion by twenty twenty-three.

PixVerse launched monetization tools so creators can earn from AI-generated video.

While Chinese producers are already experimenting with generative AI for vertical dramas, US executives emphasized the irreplaceable value of human creativity on set.

Variety Summit tackles AI, fan economics, and consumer strain.

Industry leaders converged on September the seventeenth at Variety's Entertainment and Technology Summit, where the agenda centered on generative AI's disruptive potential, the economics of fan communities, and mounting pressure on consumer spending.

September 29.

Hello and welcome to the Entertainment and AI News.

I am Ginger Lu.

And the news this week is studios and streamers are scaling.

Microdramas is a core vertical.

Variety's Entertainment and Technology Summit focused on fan economies.

And consumer strain.

The global market for generative AI in movies is projected to reach 1.3 billion by 2023.

Hello and welcome to the Entertainment and AI Tech News.

I am Ginger Lu and in this week's Entertainment and AI Tech News, Google is reportedly in talks with Hollywood studios to license film and television libraries for AI training.

No formal agreement has been reached with Disney, Warner Brothers, Discovery or Universal amid ongoing copyright legal and labour concerns.

Amazon Web Services and Amazon MGM Studios unveiled a gender of AI film fund and production platform for emerging filmmakers.

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Can we learn anything from it?

Entertainment-wise, yeah.

Well, we definitely can.

I mean, we can't do it to the, I guess, as good as Americans can at sport, but we can definitely take something out of it because, again, our final series over the weekend, our four games didn't even reach 100,000.

However, most African Americans of the 20s were relegated to subservience, barely being able to eke out an existence in segregated America.

Entertainment at this time, was employing more african-american professions than any other profession in america and i say that i want to digress and say that now because see we've lost track of what this industry did and what we were able to contribute to it and we have the multi-millionaire movie makers and the multi-millionaire musicians and the basketball players and all of this but it was black musical theater the bastion of black excellence and it gave us a new identity in spite of the horrors that we were suffering as this new voice was taking shape they developed a new intelligentsia among the creative artists of the 1920s.

The writers, musicians, dramatists, authors, along with the singers and dancers and show people, exercised a considerable amount of freedom through this new creative expression, this new Renaissance.

However, This was indeed a dark and violent time in American history as it relates to racism and violence perpetrated against African American entertainers and citizens on a whole.