Movie Studio Desperately Hopes AI Partnership Can Finally Make Nicolas Cage Videos
In a move that has the entire filmmaking industry buzzing with nervous laughter and sheer terror, legendary movie studio Lionsgate has announced its latest endeavor: teaming up with AI startup Runway to make films dreamt up by algorithms and possibly hallucinating chatbots.
This revolutionary move comes as Hollywood has decided that if you can’t beat the relentless march of AI replacing human jobs, you might as well program it to create Vin Diesel’s next Fast and Furious clone. Lionsgate, the studio behind global hits and cult classics alike, such as *The Hunger Games*, *John Wick*, and *Saw*, has unequivocally stated, “Why hire a director when you can just let a well-trained machine learning model do it for free?”
Runway, the small AI firm now at the center of this cinematic storm, has been tasked with creating advanced AI models that are trained on Lionsgate’s treasure trove of epic movies. These cinematic masterpieces are expected to churn out emotionally charged, edge-of-your-seat clips starring what industry insiders are now calling “AI deepfake celebrities.”
“This is the future,” said a remarkably enthusiastic spokesperson for Lionsgate, toggling nervously between sweat and enthusiasm. “Our slightly maniacal, yet visionary, board realized AI is not going anywhere, so they asked: Why not redefine Hollywood while we’re being overtaken by smart machines?”
While traditional writers and directors are calling it a digital Armageddon, AI enthusiasts are imagining a bright future in which they’ll enjoy films featuring digital Meryl Streeps and ethereal Richard Geres, all curated from a fraction of their human talent’s rewarding thousands of hours.
The partnership also brings Runway closer to its ultimate goal of empowering any creator worldwide with its specific AI models. Imagine if every YouTuber and TikToker could simulate Spielbergian levels of cinematic greatness from their basement. Now stop imagining and await the chaos, because it’s real and it’s glorious.
Critics have arisen, of course, trying to answer the age-old question, “What’s next, AI that can do the Oscars’ acceptance speeches too?” Nonetheless, Lionsgate remains undeterred by potential union strikes from sentient AI at some point in the not-so-distant science fiction future.
As always, there’s more at stake than free popcorn. The success or catastrophic failure of this ambitious collaboration could dictate the terms of AI in moviemaking for the foreseeable future. And it could potentially ensure that the movie industry’s next hit won’t actually involve robots taking over in any way—oh wait…
