The Owner's Guide to the Future

How To Deploy AI in a Movie Studio Today

Amazon's AWS and MGM Studios Emerge as the Surprise Leader with a New AI Studio

Jun 10 • Robert Tercek

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May 2026

Hollywood and GenAI: Slouching Towards Acceptance

Sustaining Innovation is Not Enough to Stave Off Disruptive Change

May 26 • Robert Tercek

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UBI Will Not Work in the United States

But magical thinking is no obstacle for lazy futurists and Big Tech's partisans

May 13 • Robert Tercek

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AI Won't Kill Hollywood

But AI Will Radically Redistribute Success

May 4 • Robert Tercek

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April 2026

Hollywood is a Plagiarism Machine

And That's Not an Insult. It's a Description of How Visual Storytelling Works, and Why Generative AI Belongs in the Tradition.

Apr 13 • Robert Tercek

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First, Animation Ate the Film Business. Next, AI Will Devour Animation.

The latest in my series about the future of film and storytelling

Apr 7 • Robert Tercek

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March 2026

AI is the New Camera, Redux

The Saaspocaplyse Exposes a Contradiction in US Copyright Policy

Mar 13 • Robert Tercek

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How GenAI Makes Film Production Obsolete

Part Two in a series that forecasts how AI will change cinematic storytelling

Mar 9 • Robert Tercek

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February 2026

How to Forecast the Impact of AI on Cinematic Storytelling

Plus a rant about lazy thinking habits

Feb 25 • Robert Tercek

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Motion Picture Companies Are About To Repeat A Strategic Blunder

Big Media's failure to embrace generative AI will lead to predictable disaster

Feb 20 • Robert Tercek

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January 2026

Ben Affleck is right and wrong about AI in cinema

Mostly, he's wrong. Here's why.

Jan 23 • Robert Tercek

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Rebooting for 2026

Back to the future after a hiatus.

Jan 19 • Robert Tercek

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