• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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      Back in the 1970s, you could make a movie for the cost of a large house. A studio could finance a lot of movies and take risks. Now $100 million for a movie is the norm. You want to take as few risks as possible. That means using popular actors over and over.

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        I just hope it doesn’t mean AI actors in the near future. We could potentially be the last generation to see new actors to reach super star status.

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          Movies didn’t kill live theater, and records didn’t kill live concerts/cabarets. For all we know, AI might spark a backlash and a return to movies with more ‘practical’ special effects and less CGI. On the other hand, they used AI to bring John Lennon back from the dead, so we might see a bunch of movies with John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe.