Netflix just made the most DANGEROUS move in Hollywood.
They didn't buy Warner Bros but instead bought something far more threatening.
An AI company, built in secret and founded by one of Hollywood's own.
Ben Affleck.
The company is called InterPositive and you've never heard of it.
And that was the point.
Affleck quietly registered it under a shell company called Fin Bone LLC.
He filed patents under his legal name.
He built a proprietary AI dataset on a closed soundstage, all while making movies.
Here's what InterPositive does.
It takes the raw footage from a film shoot, the dailies and trains a custom AI model on it.
That model can then relight scenes, reframe shots, remove stunt wires, fix missing angles, color correct entire films and add visual effects.
Work that currently employs thousands of people in post production.
Netflix now owns all of it, exclusively and no other studio gets access.
Think about the timing.
One week ago, Netflix walked away from an $83 billion bid to buy Warner Bros.
Wall Street cheered and the stock jumped 14%.
Days later, they quietly acquired the technology that could make traditional studios obsolete.
They just bought Hollywood's replacement.
And they made Ben Affleck an Oscar winner, a director, a guy people trust, the face of it.
SAG-AFTRA's contract expires in June.
AI is the single biggest issue on the table and the last fight over AI shut Hollywood down for months in 2023.
And Netflix just acquired an AI production company, right before negotiations.
They're calling it tools for filmmakers and they say it empowers storytellers.
That's what they always say.
The real question, how many jobs disappear when a machine can do in seconds what a VFX team does in weeks?
Netflix won't answer that but the technology already did.
La IA va estar más pronto que tarde presente en las producciones cinematográficas nos guste más, nos guste menos.
Los tiempos y el coste de los efectos especiales se reducirán considerablemente y las empresas ya se están posicionando.
Netflix has acquired interpositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.
• The system builds AI models from a film’s dailies to assist with postproduction tasks like color, relighting and VFX while keeping filmmakers “at the center of the process.”
• Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s CCO, says the tech will provide creatives “more choices, more control and more protection for their vision.”
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Eiichiro Oda has written the secret behind the ONE PIECE Treasure on a piece of paper sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
Once the series ends, the truth will be revealed.
Zack Snyder says "go f*ck yourselves" if you think his fans are toxic and defends "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" as it turns 10 years old.
“My 100% honest reaction to ‘BvS’ and how it’s received in the world is… Do you really want a movie that’s had all the edges shaved off it by the focus groups?Do you really want a movie where the decisions have been made in a boardroom, or tested ideas have been rendered for your enjoyment? Do you really want the Kmart version of your story? Is that what you really want?"
"When we were trying for the PG-13 rating on ‘BvS,’ the MPAA kept kicking the movie back to us saying, ‘It’s still an R.’ I remember someone saying we got a report from the MPA saying, ‘We just don’t like the idea of Batman fighting Superman. That kind of makes it an R. He really hits him hard with that sink. That’s rude. That feels like an R.’ I’m just like, ‘Okay… let’s just pretend it’s not Batman vs. Superman for one second.' You realize then that we were kicking the zeitgeist in the nuts and that we were going to anger people,” Snyder continued. “Not only do they not want their heroes deconstructed, they don’t want their heroes battling each other on a road to deconstructing the why of their existence. That’s another sacrilege.” (via "Happy Sad Confused")
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Zack Snyder says "I would never say there is no way" when asked about making two more "Justice League" movies as originally planned.
“I was on the ride that created ‘Justice League,’ and if you were in my shoes there were numerous times, dark times, when there was no chance that there will ever be my version of it. It will never exist. It can’t… cost, politics, everything stood against. And yet it exists. The fans should never forget they did that. They also raised a ton of money for suicide prevention. They did a lot of good. They catch a lot of flak for being toxic or whatever, but they literally saved human lives. You can go f*ck yourselves if that’s what you think." (via "Happy Sad Confused")
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At one point, there was serious consideration to release Zack Snyder's Justice League as a mini-series on HBO Max. It would have been split into 4 installments. Digital studio Yu and Co was hired to create this 'Mother Box Origins' sequence featuring Tom Waits' 'Time', which would have served as the intro for each 'episode.'
BOOM!!!
On the eve of the anniversary of the theatrical Justice League release, our insiders have reached out with major updates about Zack Snyder, the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, and what is now being described as a full-play scenario for the return of the SnyderVerse.
Warner Bros. Discovery is officially up for sale, and it’s no coincidence that Zack Snyder has been posting nonstop DCEU images and liking fan content on Instagram that compares the performance of his films to James Gunn’s struggling DCU projects. The timing lines up with what we have been told: if WBD is sold, James Gunn will be out as head of DC Studios.
This comes from the same insider who told us Daredevil: Born Again was being completely retooled — months before The Hollywood Reporter confirmed it exactly as we reported. It’s the same source who has been accurately filling us in on the WBD sale and David Zaslav’s plans before the trades caught up. Their track record speaks for itself.
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