AI in Hollywood Needs Guardrails: The Sooner the Better
In a town known for its artificiality, Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to be a perfect Hollywood fit. Last year AI language models and image creations truly dazzled the public. But they scared the unions half out of their wits. As a matter of fact the Hollywood unions negotiated hard with the studios to get limitations […]
Will Hollywood Strikes Incentivize Studios to Accelerate AI?
By James Hirsen For months now the Hollywood actors union has been on strike against the movie studios. Now the union is seeking to authorize a second strike, this one involving major video game companies. The current labor actions began when the Writers’ Guild of America union (WGA) went on strike in May of this […]
‘Sound of Freedom’ Drowns Out Detractors
Despite Hollywood executives trying to shelve it and mainstream media outlets trying to discredit it, the recently released film “Sound of Freedom” has upended the entertainment industry with resounding ticket sales, an enviable profit margin, and superb audience ratings. The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, the UK Guardian and other media organizations have denigrated the movie, […]
Elizabeth Taylor interview with Barbara Walters in 1997
Elizabeth Taylor interview with Barbara Walters in 1997. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the […]