A renowned Hollywood producer stops the expansion of his studio after seeing Sora's wonders
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:22 am
Tyler Perry is an actor and director, as well as one of the most successful producers in the United States. In 2015, Perry opened the largest film studio in the United States in Atlanta. The Walking Dead series and the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever were filmed there, for example .
The 54-year-old American producer had planned to continue pumping huge sums of money into his production studio, which is, after all, a very thriving business. Perry had intended to invest 800 million dollars in the expansion of his studio. However, overnight the producer has suspended his ambitious expansion plans. And the reason is none other than the rapid development of artificial intelligence and in particular the arrival on israel number screening the scene of Sora , the new and prodigious tool from OpenAI for generating hyper-realistic videos.
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After watching a demonstration of Sora, which can generate videos from simple text inputs, Perry was stunned (in a good way). “When someone tells you that things like this are possible today, it might not really hit you that hard. But when you see with your own eyes what AI is capable of, it’s just mind-blowing ,” Perry told The Hollywood Reporter .
The producer firmly believes that with tools like Sora at its disposal, the film industry could do away with the need to scout locations and build sets . However, this would also mean the loss of thousands of jobs, Perry admits.
The 54-year-old American producer had planned to continue pumping huge sums of money into his production studio, which is, after all, a very thriving business. Perry had intended to invest 800 million dollars in the expansion of his studio. However, overnight the producer has suspended his ambitious expansion plans. And the reason is none other than the rapid development of artificial intelligence and in particular the arrival on israel number screening the scene of Sora , the new and prodigious tool from OpenAI for generating hyper-realistic videos.
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After watching a demonstration of Sora, which can generate videos from simple text inputs, Perry was stunned (in a good way). “When someone tells you that things like this are possible today, it might not really hit you that hard. But when you see with your own eyes what AI is capable of, it’s just mind-blowing ,” Perry told The Hollywood Reporter .
The producer firmly believes that with tools like Sora at its disposal, the film industry could do away with the need to scout locations and build sets . However, this would also mean the loss of thousands of jobs, Perry admits.