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Extras: An Obituary

July 22, 2026July 14, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 1 Comment AI, Alex Garland, animatronics, Arab Legion, Avengers: Endgame, background actors, Battle of Aqaba, blockbusters, Book and Film Globe, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan films, CIvil War, D Day, David Lean, David Lean films, digital crowds, Dunkirk, epic cinema, Extras, film history, film production, Greece, Hollywood, Jordan, King Hussein, King Hussein of Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence of Arabia battle scene, Matt Damon, Messenia, Normandy, Oppenheimer, Peter Jackson, practical effects, puppetry, Ray Mendoza, SAG-AFTRA, Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Steven Spielberg, T.E. Lawrence, Tenet, The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings, The Odyssey, union actors, visual effects, William Tecumseh Sherman

AI sounds the death knell for living crowds of people on film

BOOKS Featured Stories Tech

She Is Not a Robot

May 11, 2026May 19, 2026 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments AI, AI and family life, AI and intimacy, AI and journalism, AI and medicine, AI anxiety, AI assistants, AI books, AI ethics, AI parenting, AI relationships, AI therapy, Anthropic, artificial intelligence, automation, book reviews, deep learning, future of AI, generative AI, Google AI, Harper Books, human creativity, Joanna Stern, machine learning, Meta AI, nonfiction books, NotebookLM, OpenAI, Silicon Valley, tech journalism, technology culture, Wall Street Journal, waymo, wearable technology, xAI

Joanna Stern’s book about AI is a fascinating, approachable glimpse of the future

BUSINESS FILM

The Year AI Began To Shape Hollywood

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments 2023 actors strike, Academy Awards, Adrien Brody, AI, AI ethics, AI filmmaking, artificial intelligence, Bob Iger, ChatGPT, collective bargaining, copyright, David Ellison, digital performers, Disney, Emilia Perez, Fantasia, Felicity Jones, film industry, film technology, future of cinema, generative AI, Hollywood, Hollywood studios, intellectual property, Karla Sofía Gascón, labor relations, Larry Ellison, Marvel, Mickey Mouse, Netflix, OpenAI, Oracle, Oscars, Paramount, Particle6, Pixar, Respeecher, SAG-AFTRA, Sora, Star Wars, Steamboat Willie, synthetic actors, The Brutalist, Tilly Norwood, voice technology, Walt Disney Company, Xicoia, Zurich Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival Summit

From AI Oscar wins to Disney handing OpenAI its crown jewels film is racing from talent to tech

How ‘Star Trek’ Writers Deal With an AI That Undermines Their Universe

August 21, 2025August 26, 2025 Dan Friedman 0 Comments AI, Anson Mount, Battlestar Galactica, Carol Kane, Paramount, Paramount Plus, Star Trek, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Wars, The Expanse

As computing gobbles up the 21st century, how do we envisage the 23rd?

AUTHOR STUFF

The Book Thieves of AI

June 16, 2025June 19, 2025 Paul Shirley 0 Comments AI, artificial intelligence, Meta

At first, I felt relief that Meta felt like one of my books was important enough to train its AI software. Then I got mad.

FICTION

These Aren’t the Books You’re Looking For

May 23, 2025May 28, 2025 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments AI, Andy Weir, Brit Bennett, Gabino Iglesias, Min Jin Lee, Percival Everett, Rebecca Makkai

AI-boosted summer reading list rekindles debate

Politics

Who Will Control U.S. Copyright Laws?

March 24, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments AI, Donald Trump, Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, OTSP, Sylvester Stallone, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy

The people in SoCal want to protect their jobs. The people in NorCal want to create smarter AI. And the Trump Administration will decide who wins.

FILM Politics Tech

‘The Brutalist’ Truth About AI

January 30, 2025February 4, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Adrien Brody, AI, Brady Corbet, Felicity Jones, Register of Copyrights, SAG-AFTRA, The Brutalist, The Current War

Controversy over Oscar nominee’s sound enhancement is just the beginning

Book and Film Globe Podcasts

BFG Podcast #172

November 6, 2024November 8, 2024 Book and Film Globe Staff 0 Comments AI, Israel, Poof! The Disappearance of a Writer In the Age of AI, Shana Burg

Writers in the age of AI, and writers at war over Israel

Tech

Will AI Eat Hollywood?

October 10, 2024October 15, 2024 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments AI, Alec Baldwin, Jane Fonda, Lionsgate, Pedro Pascal, Runway

Studio execs say “AI” and “capital efficient” in the same breath, things aren’t good for workers in the industry who like to, well, work

FILM

Do AI Films Have A Future?

July 30, 2024August 6, 2024 William Schwartz 0 Comments AI, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Dubai AI Film Festival, Latex Kid, One More Pumpkin, WHERE DO GRANDMAS GO WHEN THEY GET LOST?

Festivals can screen them all they want, but there doesn’t appear to be an actual audience for the content

Business NON-FICTION Tech

Book Review: Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

June 20, 2024June 24, 2024 Elaine Margolin 0 Comments AI, code dependent, Madhumita Murgia

Madhumita Murgia’s extraordinary book explores the potential for innovation, as well as dehumanization, in artificial intelligence

Politics

Elvis Has Left the Deepfake

March 25, 2024 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments AI, Bill Lee, Deloitte, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, ELVIS Act, SAG-AFTRA, Tennessee, WGA

Tennessee protects the King from AI, but don’t get comfortable: surveys show that Gen-Z is increasingly comfortable with the technology

FICTION

‘The Maniac’

November 1, 2023 Christopher Farnsworth 0 Comments AI, Benjamin Labatut, John von Neumann, The Manic

Benjamin Labatut’s novel about John von Neumann, “the smartest man alive” (in his time), reveals some unsettling and surprising truths about AI

Politics

The WGA Strike is the Crappiest Hollywood Reboot Ever

May 2, 2023May 8, 2023 Rob Kutner 0 Comments AI, AMPTP, The Daily Show, WGA, WGA Strike

This time, the issues are more complicated, and writers and studios are even further apart