Accidents and death plague The Dream Factory as unionized crews neglect safety. The Teamster and IATSE unions threaten to shut down Tinsel Town...again. Will OpenAI's text-to-video model transform filmmaking? Is the sun about to rise on Hollywood's day of reckoning?

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Additional Reading:

Marvel Crew Member Survived Deadly Bomb Before On-Set Death | Daily Beast | February 9, 2024

State-funded report says NY’s $700 million film tax credit is a bust | Gothamist | February 13, 2024

State Fines Sony Pictures in Fatal Forklift Accident on Set | Los Angeles Times | August 3, 2001

Mandie Loeb-DeMeskey | New York IATSE Workers Vote for a New President Amid a Climate of Fear and Turmoil | Variety | November 30, 2022

Sora | Creating Video from Text | OpenAI

Morph Studio | Text-to-Video

LTX Studio | AI-generated Video

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Photos: Modified Film Equipment

OpenAI's "SORA" Just Shocked Everyone | TheAIGrid | YouTube | February 15, 2024

Jaron Lanier Looks Into AI’s Future | AI IRL | Bloomberg | November 15, 2023

Mourners pay respects to Marvel crew member | NBCLA4 | YouTube | February 19, 2024

Timothy Holcombe Accident Scene Video | Spider-Man | March 6, 2001

H.B. Halicki death - KNBC 4 Los Angeles 1989 | August 20, 1989 | YouTube

Senator on NYS Tax Incentives | YouTube | February 12, 2024

Scene 173 | Int. Barge Compartment | Salt begins her revenge on the Russian gang | Salt (2010) | YouTube

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“Lets Go”, created by Mark July | Pixabay

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Emotional Piano Sad Background Music for Videos by Oleksii Kaplunskyi, Lesfm | Pixabay

Meditative Background Music by Universfield | Pixabay

Emotional Thoughtful Piano by Ashot Danielyan | Pixabay