Author: Michael

Studios and streamers have been under relentless financial pressure for years. Production costs keep climbing, subscriber growth has plateaued and traditional advertising revenues continue to contract. While the public debate remains fixated on generative AI creating synthetic video, the technology’s most immediate financial impact is happening behind the camera. Tools that once required massive post-production budgets are now accessible to virtually anyone.  Yet for major studios, unlocking that value has proven deceptively difficult. While point-solution AI tools can generate assets or speed up individual tasks in seconds, most entertainment organizations are hamstrung by fragmented systems, isolated data silos and manual…

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You can’t really get into the Halloween mood until you’ve attended Universal Studios’ annual after-hours event, which is currently operating on select nights until Nov. 1. (You can get Halloween Horror Nights tickets here. And don’t skip. Get the front-of-the-line passes. You’ll thank us later.) This year’s line-up of houses leans heavily into pre-existing IP – everything from Ryan Coogler’s recent Oscar-winning vampire epic “Sinners” to Clive Barker’s classic “Hellraiser” to the latest entry in the “Evil Dead” franchise, “Evil Dead Burn.” It is a little odd that two of the most successful and widely discussed horror films of the…

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Good Morning America cohost Lara Spencer is recalling her experience covering the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York City while she was pregnant. “25 years ago today. I was a correspondent for ABC News and six months pregnant with my first child,” Spencer, 57, wrote via Instagram on Friday, September 11. “Charlie Gibson cut into my live report from [New York] Fashion Week that morning to say there appeared to be a commuter plane that went off course and flew into the World Trade Center.” She continued, “When the second plane struck the other tower, we knew it…

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