Corbin Bolies

AI reporter @variety | news junkie | music lover | @ufjschool alum | DMs open/Signal available

[Corbin Bolies @CorbinBolies]

Coming to you LIVE with some exciting PERSONAL NEWS:

Today's my first day @Variety! I'm covering the intersection of AI and entertainment, with a look at how AI is affecting everything from film to TV to music to, yes, media. Send all tips/ideas/anything to [email protected]

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Naomi Osaka Debuts a Luxury Accessories Brand at Uncharted’s Fame to Fortune Summit in the Hamptons https://t.co/eN04Tg8bfE

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“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin has licensed her name and likeness to the AI startup Fountain 0.

Hostin said in a statement that she believes “top-quality AI productions cannot only enable writers and directors to have their imaginations unleashed and no longer be tethered to budgetary constraints” but also “pioneer a new art form which can open up new dimensions for how public personalities can engage with audiences.”

“To be able to bring my novels to life in movie and TV form, and actually have my image inserted in the productions, so that audiences can relate to me through my stories beyond my role as an author, is incredibly exciting to me,” she said. “This entire generational innovation in filmmaking from Fountain 0 gives me confidence that AI can give me a way to both more fully develop, and more fully immerse myself in, [intellectual property] I have developed.”

https://t.co/RhClpnD9PJ

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NEW: Fountain 0, the AI company being the Tribeca-premiering AI-generated film “Dreams of Violets,” says it has licensed “The View” host Sunny Hostin’s likeness and plans to adapt some of her books — that could star her synthetic image.

https://t.co/NmXRGKo1ZI

[Mediagazer @mediagazer]

Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others (@corbinbolies / Variety)

(Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)

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we used to be able to have nice things

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New York's AMC Kips Bay Movie Theater to Close at End of 2026 https://t.co/x6dZuhzir8

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widow’s bay (2026)

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Dr. Dre Says the Only People Who See AI as a Threat Are Those 'Who Have Trouble Creating' https://t.co/HCDaSVyldX

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NEW: A group of Hollywood stars and Silicon Valley execs, brought together by Kathleen Kennedy and AFI’s Susan Ruskin, have been meeting for nearly three years to figure out how to talk about AI’s use in the industry.

They’ve landed on a framework:
https://t.co/eBs5qtgKaO

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NEW: A group of Hollywood stars and Silicon Valley execs, brought together by Kathleen Kennedy and AFI’s Susan Ruskin, have been meeting for nearly three years to figure out how to talk about AI’s use in the industry.

They’ve landed on a framework:
https://t.co/eBs5qtgKaO

[Jesse Dougherty @dougherty_jesse]

For @esquire, I wrote about losing a dream job earlier this year in the same month our daughter arrived.

About the fear and anxiety of it all.

And about the clarity on the other side: https://t.co/KtgqsuCx5z

[Corbin Bolies @CorbinBolies]

me when i don't have cold brew in the morning

[James Libresco @james_libresco]

I reached out to Flock Safety for comment on privacy concerns with their expansive Northern VA camera network. This is what I got back.

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“Ice Princess” director Tim Fywell remembers the two stars of his beloved 2005 ice skating movie, Hayden Panettiere and Michelle Trachtenberg, as an "amazing pair":

“In what was often a tough and technically complicated shoot, and my first Hollywood movie, they were delightful to work with and great to have around. I remember them both with huge affection, how they were 20 odd years ago, at that relatively uncomplicated time of their lives, two shining talents, gone far too soon.” https://t.co/krR2M1Cdw5

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3:

https://t.co/WXSo0zB6JF

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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and ByteDance have struck a deal for IP protections in AI videos and image models.

The two groups have developed a framework to protect the film and TV industries’ intellectual property across ByteDance’s suite of AI generative products, including the AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream.

https://t.co/Rewh8rCYro

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NEW: I watched @trymirage's AI-generated, 24-hour news channel. I hopped on a Zoom with its CEO. I had questions.
https://t.co/mYCvkh6NCP

[Chris Willman @ChrisWillman]

I'm reupping my review of the Phoebe Bridgers album, now that release night is finally at hand. As I wrote, "A little bit of gallows humor is never far off, and neither are surprising heaps of heart-on-sleeve emotion... It's an album that has one foot in the grave and one firmly planted on Lovers’ Lane. Flitting between deadpan sorrow and impassioned romance, Bridgers’ album is alternately spooky, hilarious, mysterious and sneakily moving. Maybe it goes without saying: it’s not to be missed." https://t.co/fiyUvQkByU via @variety

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This AI Startup Made a 24-Hour AI News Channel. Who Wants This? https://t.co/vxYVLz4Epr

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NEW: I watched @trymirage's AI-generated, 24-hour news channel. I hopped on a Zoom with its CEO. I had questions.
https://t.co/mYCvkh6NCP

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

NEW: Forbes fired its top editor, Randall Lane, in July after learning he had received a secret $6 million payment from the founder of one of the magazine's business partners.
https://t.co/FR8Im7gy8u

[Corbin Bolies @CorbinBolies]

Earlier this year, I profiled what Jacqui Heinrich’s tenure as WHCA president would look like. She told me, “I think that the more we can do the work of advocacy rather than activism in a public arena — that is the guiding principle of my leadership.”
https://t.co/hgFYuwdplM

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

New: WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich's told members today that she met with administration officials to express concern over the Washington Post's reporting on the decoy plane.