"No one with any real deep knowledge of this industry could think AI can start casting films," veteran casting director Lucinda Syson concluded this morning during a panel discussion at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.  Syson, whose credits include ensemble titles like September 5 and Th…

YouTube is undergoing a staffing shakeup as the company pivots to focus on artificial intelligence, offering its US-based employees voluntary buyout packages with severance. The online video platform, which launched in 2005, is restructuring its products team for the first time since 2015…

Meta saw profits sink for the three months ended in September on a massive and unexpected one-time tax charge of $15.9 billion, despite reporting solid underlying numbers. Shares fell 8% after-market on the earnings hit and higher that anticipated capital expenditures this year. Specifically…

Welcome to Rendering, a new Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Published with our TechLine newsletter, Rendering will examine how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding…

UPDATED with Wednesday trading: Nvidia’s stock continued its hot streak Wednesday, rising more than 3% in mid-day trading to make the company the first to top $5 trillion in market value. The maker of GPU (graphics processing units) chips designed to power a number of AI applications has seen…

EXCLUSIVE: Adobe has offered a preview of Project Frame Forward, an AI-powered system designed to improve the process of editing video. The setup was unveiled Wednesday evening during the company’s annual Max Creativity Conference, a multi-day event in Los Angeles attended by more than 10,000…

As the discourse around AI in Hollywood continues to intensify, Guillermo del Toro is planting his feet in opposition of the filmmaking fad. The 3x Oscar winner recently said he would “rather die” than use generative AI in his films, comparing the technology to the “arrogance” of Oscar Isaac‘s…

The NAB Show is known in large part as a bonanza for tech geeks and engineers, and its New York edition last week was no exception. But the broadcast industry lobbying group made a statement by foregrounding discussion of a central challenge for its members: regaining public trust in the era of…

Let’s hope Tilly Norwood has signed with an agent, because Paul Schrader appears to have just the project for Hollywood’s growing dependence on AI. The Oscar nominee recently said that he expects movies to be “more and more AI” in the coming years, noting that he’s read a “perfect script to do…

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…

Kevin O’Leary has no problem with AI in Hollywood. The Shark Tank star defended the use of AI in an appearance on The Hill's World of Travel podcast arguing that A24’s upcoming film Marty Supreme, in which he appears, could have saved “millions of dollars” if they had used “AI agents” in place…

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…