When Tyler Perry saw one-minute clips produced through Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, the filmmaker was absolutely stunned. ‘[S]eeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing’, he told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘I had no idea until I saw recently the demonstrations of what it’s able to do. It’s shocking to me.’ Perry wasn’t alone. Sora had many creators shook. Perry, who has already used AI in two movies, sees its vast potential as a new cost-saving, creative tool for movie production. With AI, Perry realized he soon may be able to create sets without having to build expensive physical ones or incur travel and production costs to shoot on location. In the movie industry, the ‘bottom line’ is often what drives decisions about what projects to finance, especially in today’s climate of uncertain, if not diminishing, revenues at the box office and through streaming …
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