Raw LLM Responses

I don't know if Jessica is serious at 5:13, or just engaging in some sort of solidarity/signaling, when it comes to why Hollywood does remake after remake, with almost-zero fresh concepts. It has little or nothing to do with writers pay, or allowing them to do their thing, creatively. The industry is permanently hamstrung by Wall Street, which demands consistent revenue and profits. Superhero and other "franchises" are no longer very exciting...everyone knows that, as she acknowledged. But they come with a built in audience who will go see the picture, almost no matter what. So take that block, and tack on SOME newcomers, and you start with a decent base of revenue for each picture. On top of the above, you have the various social agendas that have taken-root in Hollywood, so there is "virtue gridlock" in what a picture can and cannot cover/say/cast, because many of these ideologies don't always run in parallel. Everyone's an activist, and some will get offended, then detonate the quarterly earnings of their "enemy." Studio bosses know that a lot of the Left-coast messaging is still too new for middle America to buy into, so from the perspective of profits, it makes sense to stick with the regurgitated franchise content that is as close to a sure thing as they have today. SAG and WGA can and probably will stay on strike for a good-long-time. They, like $15/hr burger flippers, are just going to push the industry faster and faster to AI generated content. We WILL see the first all-AI feature in the next 24 months. I have no insider info that backs me up on that, but the Studios are not going to stand for being shut down for much longer. They see AI on the horizon, so there is little incentive to sign a long-term, precedent-setting sweet deal, tilted toward the unions. $15 burger flippers are being replaced by automation. Text to image AI is getting better by the hour, and soon will be able to do very convincing animation, then live action style video. There will be that "Toy Story" moment, with AI generated content, very soon. And, as they say, "machine don't go on strike". Well, not yet, anyway.