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While Sony was light on talent at its CinemaCon presentation, its executives got thunderous applause for passionately defending theatrical exclusivity at a time when other studios have released films day-and-date on streaming. “Debuting movies simultaneously in theaters and at home is devastating to our collective businesses,” Sony Motion Picture Group President Josh Greenstein told the Read More …

SiriusXM Radio does not need to pay in order to play pre-1972 recordings under California law, an appeals court ruled Monday (Aug. 23), marking the radio giant’s latest victory in its ongoing dispute over music royalties with members of ’60s rockers The Turtles. Source: SiriusXM Wins Appeal in Turtles Lawsuit Over Pre-1972 Royalties

John Fithian, the chief of the National Association of Theater Owners, is here to reiterate one thing: Moviegoing is not dead. “I applaud artists who refuse to accept the false narrative that movie theaters are a thing of the past and that the future will be one in which every movie is consumed at home,” Read More …

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‘AI’ is the world’s first play written and performed live with an artificial intelligence. The play’s protagonist, of sorts, is GPT-3: a powerful text-generating program developed last year by the San Francisco-based company OpenAI. Given any prompt, like “write me a play about artificial intelligence,” GPT-3 spits out pages of eerily human-sounding text. Source: An AI Read More …