Hollywood's Secret AI Plan; Disney's 'Edgy' Tinker Bell Era; DGA v. WGA

Hollywood's Secret AI Plan; Disney's 'Edgy' Tinker Bell Era; DGA v. WGA

Our biggest story of the week was about — what else? — AI. While Hollywood spent the past three years arguing over what generative AI might do to film and TV, a group of top executives and creatives quietly met regularly behind the scenes — led by Kathleen Kennedy and AFI dean Susan Ruskin — to answer a harder question: How should the industry actually use it? And under what guidelines? Though participants in the often heated discussions shall r…