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Hi gang, box office is out for Thursday with a few new movies premiering yesterday. That dropped The First Omen down to 13th place, so it will be interesting to see where it spends this weekend and if it holds on to all its theaters. https://www.the-numbers.com/daily-box-office-chart

Something tells me that technology will continue to do things cheaper and faster than humans can often do them. And that will likely include the voiceover role of a talking squirrel or something in cartoons, at least to start. Where will A.I. be in 2030 in Hollywood? We just don't know yet, but...

What benefit to society was gained by replacing typists, stenographers and dittos with email and desktop printers? Did it make the content of the memorandums better when the bosses went to emails instead of stenographers? That's yet to be seen, because A.I. is still in its infancy, and I'm...

That's exactly what those Sharp Pencil Boys that Walt was always talking about are for. You can bet they're on it. ;) Just as with all other industries on the planet, Hollywood studios will do a cost/benefit analysis on A.I. and determine exactly what jobs it will replace. The voice of the...

I totally get all that. It's a noble thought. It's just important to remember that sentiment didn't have any impact before technology got rid of the ladies in the Steno Pool. And the typists. And the telephone operators. And the milkmen. And the taxi dispatchers. And the airport ticket agents...

Oh, Broadway plays. Did you know I once went to a Broadway play in NY? Phantom Of The Opera around 1988-ish. It was fun. But back OT, the first time you notice or are told about an A.I. voiceover of some talking frog or something, please don't forget to yell "Curse you TP2000!!" at the screen...

Got it. And I'm sure she'll do well in that movie. But it would be folly to pretend that a decade from now A.I. can't replace actresses entirely on screen. It would be the same as claiming in 1980 that your typist sitting at her Selectric could never be replaced by a computer.

It was the 2018 sale that Bob Chapek purposely passed up on, even though multiple senior execs in TDA begged him to buy it. Chapek wasn't thrilled about it, but got convinced to make a bid because the TDA team desperately wanted the facility for a "Cast Campus" on the mall's entire upper floor...

Someone buy the good doctor a bottle of champagne! She just summed it all up beautifully!

That quote is exactly what I remember my opinion being, and that opinion is not "TP2000 wants to fire actors and replace them with bots because he's very mean!" 🤣 It seems that A.I. will be able to replace human actors in the future. It's a technology that is evolving quickly, and I've read...

What if the technology becomes so good that you can't tell whether the talking squirrel is voiced by a human or A.I.? They used to get humans to physically paint using airbrushes over each frame of a movie for a special effect. Now a computer does that with work automatically. Many would argue...

That scene was exactly the scene described in the article I read about that movie. And it's what made me cringe and think "Thank God I'm happy just watching The Crown and The Gilded Age and I don't have to go see movies like that!" 🤣

I did? I thought all actors should be fired? I don't remember that. Although, I suppose technically, you could eventually make a movie with nothing but A.I. actors and actresses if you really wanted to. I do remember in that strike thread there was talk of studios wanting to pay people a...

Ah, let 'em have their fun. :cool: When they find out a year or two from now the voiceover for the Farmers Insurance commercial or the voiceover for the animated starfish in a Saturday morning cartoon is being done by A.I. they can yell at their TV screen.... "TP2000 is responsible for this...

Thank you for getting it. Since the invention of the cotton gin 200-and-however many years ago, history has been filled with human jobs and skills that have been eliminated and replaced with technology. I find it fascinating how many folks think that new technology will be kept outside the...