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I don't know the financial pressures
in Hollywood are it's hard to say because

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on the one hand when there's financial
pressures in Hollywood of course the

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argument is fewer movies get get green
lit and then and then the executives

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become more riskaverse in the kinds
of movies they're willing to greenlight uh

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but I think it also means that they are
also less willing to greenlight projects

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that are being green lit only for
political reasons um or only for social

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cultural reasons or only out of a sense
of fear um and so I don't know exactly

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how that balances but hopefully um
hopefully things get u more exciting by

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the way of course the other
big topic in Hollywood is AI um

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Yeah. So that's the, you know, that's
the 800 pound thing. And, you know, and

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and you know, to their credit, they're,
you know, say they're highly aware of

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it. They're highly alert alert to it.

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Um, and then by the way, there are
a bunch of filmmakers, including some

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folks that I know that are like super
excited. Um, and so there there are

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including some like I know of like
two like a triple A list like director,

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filmmakers, you know, top end people
who are like very excited about what's

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possible. Um, and are are going to fully
embrace it. Um, and there's there's a

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bunch of other people who are, you know,
very excited. Um, and so, um, so there's

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going to be an embrace by at least part,
but there's also there's also, you know,

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there there's a lot of, you know,
Hollywood has always had kind of a

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fear-driven reaction to new technologies.
Um, and there's some of

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that. Um, and then, um, and then,
and then there is this attachment, and

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Hollywood is is actually very acute.

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There's this attachment of like AI
politics to like woke politics. And so

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if if you're if you're still super woke,
you're also like super anti-A. Um, and

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there are these like basically it's
basically like the woke activists have

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picked up AI as the new thing that
they're going to agitate about. Um, and

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so and they're mounting basically
already like pressure campaigns on the

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studios to like basically vow to never
use AI. And at least so far the studios

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to their credit are like no we're not
going to do that. Um, like we're we we

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we you know the studio so far I think
the studio executives have all been

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consistent which is like look we've
always used technology. Um, you know the

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the movie camera itself is technology.

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special effects like we've we've always
used technology you know video tapes DVD

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streaming these are all technologies
um you know every movie has CGI you know

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like that's you know uh one of my little
fun facts about history of movies is

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Tron Tron was the first there's a big
sequel for Tron that's out this week the

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original Tron was 19882 um from from
Disney and it was the first movie that

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had integrated use of computer graphics
which was the the big thing at the time

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um and um and as a consequence of that

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Tron was disqualified from the Oscars
um because they cheated uh by using

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computer due to graphics, right? Um,
right. And so, and so, you know, to go

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from the that world to the world
in which every movie has CGI and and for

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the most part, you don't even know
that there's CGI in it. You just see a

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romantic comedy and they're using CGI
to do all kinds of things in it and you

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don't even notice and it's just taken
completely for granted. And so, like I I

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I I think the studios the studios I
think understand that. I think they're

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going to they're going to actually
embrace it enthusiastically, but there's

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going to be this there's going to be
this like at least there's an attempt to

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like jin up a moral panic around it um
and try to, you know, basically keep it

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out. And I I don't think it's going
to work because I think the economics are

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too compelling. But but anyway,
the but then the other thing with AI is of

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course AI is going to be super helpful
to existing filmmakers. But the other

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thing is AI for sure and we you know we
see this especially in this last last in

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this last couple weeks with the new
version of Sora um and a lot of these

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other new things that are coming out.
AI is going to make a whole new kind of

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filmmaker possible to exist for the

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first time, which is the filmmaker with

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no visual skill, right? Or access to a

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set or to a camera or to actors, but

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with an idea. Um, like you like people
are going to be able to make, you know,

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it's going to start with shorts
and animated things and so forth, but it's

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going to it's going to work its way up
to full movies. Um, and so, you know,

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people with a create people people who
otherwise would be limited to only being

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novelists or being maybe people who
do graphic novels, um, but are creative

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geniuses, um, uh, are going to be able
to actually make full movies with AI.

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And I, and again, I think I think that's
a reason for like profound optimism. I

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think we're going to get like completely
new kinds of, you know, basically film

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and entertainment from people who
otherwise never would would have been

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able to to access the medium. And and I
think that also is I'm very positive on

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that.