The promise and peril of AI is a not a brand-new phenomenon. But it was not until this week that studios and top agency CAA collectively sounded the alarm over one of its most recent and threatening developments – Sora 2. The new OpenAI generative video model allows users to create social-media-ready videos with just…
As anxieties run high throughout the media business, MSNBC‘s Ari Melber sees the positives in the channel’s pending spinoff from Comcast, meaning that NBC News no longer will be a sister organization. “We always had great advantages from collaborating with a network,” Melber said. “Now we’re completely independent, and sometimes your collaborators will become healthy…
EXCLUSIVE: Without advance notice, Magnolia Pictures on Friday will release Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway on Prime Video and other digital platforms. The David Cromer-directed film is is a live-capture of the Tony-nominated play that broke records during its limited Broadway run at the Winter Garden Theatre. George Clooney directed the acclaimed…
Kamala Harris, in her first news interview since leaving office, hailed ABC’s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air. Harris told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “Talk about the power being with the people and the people making that clear with their checkbooks as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. We saw the power…
In 2021, Jimmy Kimmel called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a “moist, gelatinous tubeworm whose elastic-band pants are filled with an inky discharge every time he speaks.” Imagine then that Cruz’s comments, particularly his riff on Goodfellas, earlier Friday concerning Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel could help pave the way for Disney to bring the…
In the 24 hours after ABC announced it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air, FCC chairman Brendan Carr has made a wave of media appearances, on CNBC, Fox News and a podcast, and he’s made more threats. On Thursday, asked by Scott Jennings what other ABC programming could come under the agency’s scrutiny,…