On Tuesday afternoon the bomb dropped. OpenAI was closing down Sora, and its Disney deal was over. The big video-generation tool that was supposed to turn Disney+ into a user-generated paradise — or a field of memeslop, depending on your point of view — is no longer. And maybe, with it, OpenAI’s Hollywood ambitions are gone too.
Three veteran Hollywood Reporter editors — editorial director David Katz and senior editors Steven Zeitchik and Julian Sancton — convened to make sense of the news.
Steven Zeitchik: Gentlemen, we have the biggest story in Hollywood and tech in many months. Sora is dead and Disney+ won’t be Sora-fied. What’s your first reaction?
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David Katz: From a Disney perspective I’m thinking of [new CEO] Josh D’Amaro and what a crazy development it is for him. They probably sold this to Wall Street as a future-proofing 100X
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