Why Liza Minnelli Has Turned To AI To Create New Music Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. This edition: Inside Liza Minnelli’s partnership with AI company […]

Pact & Equity Return To Negotiating Table On AI Following “Improved Offer” — But Union Says Industrial Action Remains Possibility Pact and Equity have returned to the negotiating table on artificial intelligence but the UK actors union has said industrial action remains possible. Equity said Pact has made an “improved offer” after the producer trade body “sent over new wording with improvements in relation to AI protections which had been in dispute.” “Following a meeting yesterday (Tuesday 20 […]

OpenAI Is Starting To Test Ads On ChatGPT OpenAI is beginning to test advertising on its popular ChatGPT platform, potentially opening up a multi-billion-dollar annual revenue opportunity. The company announced the move on Friday. Given the computing power required by AI tools, OpenAI is spending much of the war chest derived from venture capital and investments from Microsoft and other backers building out […]

Disney’s AI Dispute With Google Runs Deeper Than First Thought, But Can It Afford All-Out War With The Tech Titan? Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. This edition: A glimpse inside Disney’s AI war with […]

Harriet Walter & Hugh Bonneville Tell UK Actors To Vote “Yes” In Landmark AI Ballot Harriet Walter and Hugh Bonneville have urged actors union members to vote “yes” in the landmark ballot that could lead thousands of actors to refuse to be scanned on set. The Succession and Downton Abbey stars are among thousands of performers who have backed Equity’s campaign. Via an indicative ballot, Equity is asking its 7,000 […]

Trade Group DEG Launches AI Alliance, Citing Core Mission To “Amplify Human Creativity” The Digital Entertainment Group, a coalition of several dozen stakeholders across programming, technology and retail, has launched a new alliance called DEG.AI. The goal of the new effort is “helping guide the media and entertainment industry through its artificial intelligence transformation, with a core mission to amplify human creativity,” the trade group said. The AI […]

AI Start-Up My SMASH Media Secures Funding & Brings Former Glasgow Film Festival Director Allison Gardner On Board EXCLUSIVE: AI start-up My SMASH Media has secured additional funding and recruited Allison Gardner, the former Director of the Glasgow Film Festival and a very well-known industry figure in the UK business. The Edinburgh-based company has an AI-powered matchmaking tool for the film business called SMASHCupid, and Gardner coming on board coincides with it receiving […]

Queen Latifah Urges Industry “Not To Be Afraid” Of AI & New Tech: “It’s Not Going Anywhere” – Red Sea Queen Latifah touched down at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Thursday where the multihyphenate discussed the why she feels the creative industries should embrace new tech, such as AI. Speaking at the festival’s first In Conversation event this year, the rapper-actress-producer urged the industry “not to be afraid of the technology that is […]

Equity To Ballot Members Over Digital Scanning In Move That Could Lead Thousands Of British Actors To Refuse To Be Scanned On Set EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of UK actors could refuse to be digitally scanned on set as the Equity union makes history by holding a ballot of its members from the film and TV industry. As Equity and producer trade body Pact remain deadlocked over guardrails for artificial intelligence (AI), the union is taking things a step further […]

Sky History Acquires ‘Castles SOS,’ AI-Powered Doc Exploring Royalty, Ruins & Restoration EXCLUSIVE: Sky History has sent out a Castles SOS. The UK channel has acquired a new AI-powered doc telling the royalty, ruins and restoration stories behind British castles. Will Hanrahan’s indie FirstLookTV is making the series for the Hearst Networks EMEA channel. It will be fronted by British presenter Rick Edwards and is now in […]

Creator Of Viral ‘Last Supper Selfies’ & Angel Eye Media Duo Open AI Studio The Emmy-winning editor who created the viral Last Supper Selfies is opening an AI studio in the UK. Duncan Thomsen has launched AiStudiosUK.com with former Gogglebox producer Ollie Durrant and Angel Eye Media MD Richard Osborne. Thomsen is the founder of Artificial Studios and Artificial Academy and created the viral Last Supper Selfies in 2023, which […]

Beta Film & German Film School FABW Launch “Lab-To-Market” AI Production Initiative EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film and German film school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (FABW) are joining forces on a “lab to market” AI initiative that they hope will help shape the future of film and TV production. The alliance pairs one of Europe’s most prominent producer-distributor groups with one of the continent’s most renowned film schools. The film and […]

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Jameela Jamil Slams Tilly Norwood & Use Of AI In Entertainment Industry: “I Find The Whole Thing Deeply Disturbing”– Web Summit Lisbon Jameela Jamil has condemned the use of AI in the entertainment industry with The Good Place star calling AI-created actress Tilly Norwood “deeply disturbing and troubling.” Speaking at an intimate press conference at the annual tech conference Web Summit in Lisbon, the British actress and activist didn’t hold back when asked how she feels Hollywood should embrace […]

United Agents Issues Scam Warning EXCLUSIVE: United Agents, the London shop that reps Kate Winslet and Ricky Gervais, has issued a scam alert following fears its agents may have been targeted. Talk of scammers impersonating agents or their clients and contacting talent has been rife in the UK agency space of late as it becomes increasingly common across the industry. […]

Disney Tech Exec Joins BBC Studios To Lead On AI EXCLUSIVE: The head of the Disney StudioLAB is returning to the UK to lead BBC Studios’ artificial intelligence (AI) push. Alice Taylor will take up a gig running BBC Studios Productions AI Creative Lab in five days time reporting to productions boss Zai Bennett. The native Brit has spent the past decade at Walt Disney […]

Khaby Lame & Maria Sharapova Kick Off Annual Web Summit In Lisbon; Delegates Told Culture & Art Are “Secret Ingredients” To Digital Innovation & “Era Of Western Tech Dominance Is Fading” Hollywood may be moving at a somewhat glacial pace when it comes to establishing just how it will embrace AI in its industry, but when annual tech conference Web Summit kicked off its 10th edition in Lisbon on Monday night the energy felt anything but slow. Khaby Lame, the world’s most followed TikTok star, tennis champion […]

Beta Film & Industry Execs Join Forces To Launch Artificial Intelligence Start-Up Chapter41 EXCLUSIVE: Beta Film has teamed with a trio of industry execs to launch artificial intelligence start-up Chapter41. The Munich-headquartered film and TV outfit has partnered with Hannes Jakobsen, Dominik Böhm, and Lars Stark on the new Berlin-based company. It will focus on use of AI across three areas: content generation and production, consulting, and optimizing […]

Editing Platform Tachi AI Emerges From Stealth, Plans Public Launch In 2026 EXCLUSIVE: Editing platform Tachi AI has emerged from stealth mode and plans a public debut in 2026, aiming to bring about major advances to one of the bedrock elements of the production process. The startup, now in closed beta, was founded by filmmakers, data scientists, and software engineers, with the goal of streamlining repetitive tasks. […]

Tilly Norwood Creator Eline Van Der Velden Talks Backlash, Reveals Another 40 AI Actors Are In The Pipeline & Explains Why They Will Never Replace Real Actors EXCLUSIVE: When actress and technologist Eline Van der Velden sat down for a Deadline-moderated panel at the Zurich Summit in September, she never could have anticipated the intense global reaction that Tilly Norwood, the first AI-created actress from her fledgling AI talent studio Xicoia, would spark across the world. The polished brunette AI creation with a […]

Adobe To Release AI-Powered Video Editing System ‘Project Frame Forward’ EXCLUSIVE: Adobe is introducing Project Frame Forward, an AI-powered system designed to improve the process of editing video. The setup will be unveiled Wednesday evening during the company’s annual Max Creativity Conference, a multi-day event in Los Angeles attended by more than 10,000 people. The new offering is being featured as part of Adobe Max […]

Nvidia Closes In On Record $5 Trillion Valuation After Spree Of Product And Partnership News Nvidia is closing in on a record $5 trillion market value after a spree of announcements Tuesday lifted its shares another 5%. The company introduced a raft of innovations during its annual GTC event (which is short for GPU Technology Conference, a reference to Nvidia’s core product, the graphics processing unit). Partnerships with Uber, Palantir, […]

Peter Bart: Companies Are Pitching MOGA (Make Offices Great Again), But AI-Wary Workers Are Barely Budging For a glimpse of turmoil these days, look no further than the nearest office. “It’s an incipient war zone,” says a McKinsey study. That’s despite the fact that offices are mostly empty — both federal and corporate. The MAGA-era U.S. government pretends to function despite the absence of its workforce due to layoffs and the […]

Peter Bart: Companies Are Pitching MOGA (Make Offices Great Again), But AI-Wary Workers Are Barely Budging For a glimpse of turmoil these days, look no further than the nearest office. “It’s an incipient war zone,” says a McKinsey study. That’s despite the fact that offices are mostly empty — both federal and corporate. The MAGA-era U.S. government pretends to function despite the absence of its workforce due to layoffs and the […]

Peter Bart: Companies Are Pitching MOGA (Make Offices Great Again), But AI-Wary Workers Are Barely Budging For a glimpse of turmoil these days, look no further than the nearest office. “It’s an incipient war zone,” says a McKinsey study. That’s despite the fact that offices are mostly empty — both federal and corporate. The MAGA-era U.S. government pretends to function despite the absence of its workforce due to layoffs and the […]

Peter Bart: Companies Are Pitching MOGA (Make Offices Great Again), But AI-Wary Workers Are Barely Budging For a glimpse of turmoil these days, look no further than the nearest office. “It’s an incipient war zone,” says a McKinsey study. That’s despite the fact that offices are mostly empty — both federal and corporate. The MAGA-era U.S. government pretends to function despite the absence of its workforce due to layoffs and the […]

UK AI Company Wonder Studios Raises $12M From Investors Including Atomico & Adobe Wonder Studios, a British company weaving AI into storytelling, has completed a $12M raise. Founded by Xavier Collins and Justin Hackney in April, Wonder’s news investors include Atomico; Adobe Ventures; Erik Huggers, a key architect behind BBC iPlayer; and Upside Ventures, established by YouTube stars the Sidemen. It builds on Wonder’s pre-seed raise, which was […]

AI Poses Threat To Some Content, Ted Sarandos Says, But Taylor Swift Is “More Popular Than Ever … It Takes A Great Artist To Make Something Great” Addressing the potential threat to Netflix posed by generative video models like OpenAI’s Sora 2, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said it is more likely to pull audiences away from user-generated video. Professionally produced series and films, as well as other works of art, will remain the province of human creativity, Sarandos maintained during the company’s […]

OpenAI Pauses Martin Luther King Jr. AI Videos, Saying Public Figures “Should Ultimately Have Control” Over Likeness After a storm of objections from IP owners over generative AI video model Sora 2, the estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. and OpenAI have agreed to pause images of King created by the platform. In a joint statement issued Friday morning, the estate and the tech company cited the existence of “disrespectful depictions” of […]