formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Founder Jonah Peretti will transition to work on the firm’s AI efforts as the former new media darling sputters as a publicly traded company. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/byron-allen-to-buy-buzzfeed-in-120-million-deal-will-take-over-as-ceo-1236592782/
If there was a common message to be found in the flood of entertainment media company earnings reports over the last several days, one could argue it’s that Hollywood appears to finally be done chasing streaming growth at all costs. … Continued
AI movies designed for your phone are getting the Silicon Valley and Hollywood treatment. Source: https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/a-startup-making-ai-movies-scored-dollar12-million-from-khosla-ventures-jeffrey/w9c4lxz
According to a spate of recent job listings, Netflix has been building up an internal studio called INKubator which will be focused on using AI to produce animated short-form content, with ambitions to scale to long-form projects in the future. … Continued
A production that traditionally would have taken months to shoot and require multiple locations was filmed entirely in one week with a crew of just 100 people — who never left Los Angeles. Source: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-05-13/why-house-of-david-director-thinks-ai-can-save-hollywood-jobs
“There are hierarchies, there are gatekeepers,” Zhang told Business Insider. Without funding or industry connections, making it in film felt “almost impossible.” Source: https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/this-couple-literally-married-ai-and-filmmaking-read-the-pitch-deck-they-used-to/hgrj5e5