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Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise Fighting: We’re Worried About the Wrong Thing

Long title… I know. Should have gotten AI to do it. Lol. You've probably seen it by now. A 15-second AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise throwing punches on a rooftop, conjured by Oscar-nominated Irish director Ruairi Robinson using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 tool. It looks polished. It looks cinematic. And it sent Hollywood into the kind of collective panic attack usually reserved for opening weekend box office disasters. Screenwriter Rhett Reese, co-writer of Deadpool …

Don't Panic! The 2026 AI Survival Guide: What's Real, What's Hype, and What Actually Matters

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the Guide itself famously has ‘DON’T PANIC’ on its cover. That's still the best advice for navigating the unknown, including the flood of AI headlines you're gonna read in 2026. After thirty years in the film and TV industry, and years as an ethical AI consultant who spends every week tracking AI's collision with creative work, here's my current assessment of artificial intelligence as it pertains to the film and TV industr…

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