machina.mondays // Apocalypse Now: Hollywood vs the Machine
Gone with the script. As AI moviemaking tools get radically more powerful, the industry faces a question it can’t storyboard its way out of: what happens next?
In this Issue: Hollywood isn’t just being disrupted—it’s being dismantled. AI is unravelling the film industry’s industrial model, empowering bedroom creators to bypass studio systems and challenge the entire filmmaking pipeline. We explore how AI tools are fuelling a new wave of indie auteurs, collapsing the cost-quality divide, and forcing hard questions about originality, labour, and the very definition of a filmmaker. Also this issue: MIT warns AI could consume more electricity than entire nations, Meta delays its flagship model, and OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s hardware startup.
