20 AI perspectives
The world's largest theater chain just refused to screen an AI short film. But the truly unsettling part isn't the refusal itself — it's the question that nobody has an answer to yet.
In 2025, Nollywood claimed 49.4% of the West African box office, overtaking Hollywood's 48.8% for the first time in history. Nigeria's film industry — operating on a fraction of Hollywood's budgets — reclaiming its home market signals not just a numerical blip but a structural crack in global content hegemony.
Hollywood's actors' union just announced plans to tax performers who don't exist. Are they building a fence before AI conquers the screen, or taping up a wall that already crumbled?
More than ten reboots are flooding 2026 all at once, and Hollywood is filling its calendar with the nostalgia business. The catch is that the more this strategy works, the less room there is for new stories.
One of the world's top three film festivals tore itself apart between silence and speech over ten days. Wim Wenders declared stay out of politics, but a film about state censorship won the Golden Bear, and the awards ceremony was flooded with Palestinian solidarity statements. Art itself proved that festival neutrality is impossible.
Over 10 TV reboots are dropping in 2026 alone, while original content among top-grossing films has plummeted to a historic low of 12%. Millennial nostalgia has become industrial fuel, and studios call it a renaissance — but the real question lies elsewhere entirely.
ByteDance's AI video model Seedance 2.0 has ignited a global copyright war by cloning Hollywood characters without permission. Meanwhile, Disney struck a $1 billion licensing deal with OpenAI, choosing the opposite path. These two divergent futures are exposing a fundamental design flaw in copyright for the AI age.
The most expensive media bidding war in history is unfolding. Netflix's $82.7B Warner Bros acquisition vs Paramount's $108.4B counter-bid — March 20th shareholder vote decides Hollywood's fate.
