With artificial intelligence looming over multiple creative industries, actress Reese Witherspoon believes that filmmaking will change drastically in the near future as Hollywood adapts to new viewing habits.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with The New York Times<\/a>, Witherspoon spoke about how her two children\u2019s attention span for films differed from her generation\u2019s. She said this points to where Hollywood is heading.<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI noticed my kids weren\u2019t going to the movies,\u201d Witherspoon says. \u201cI had teenage kids. I went to the movies every Friday and Saturday night. Kids don\u2019t go to the movies. Usually, people are seeing one movie a year in the theaters with their kids. You\u2019ve got to go where the audience is, not lament the fact that they didn\u2019t show up or have what I call \u2018old-school-itis,\u2019 which is like, Well, in my day. Well, it just doesn\u2019t work that way! Attention spans are shifting. The way we make movies is going to change radically in the next two to three years.\u201d<\/p>\n After the interviewer asked if the cognitive shift was due to the recent rise of artificial intelligence, Witherspoon agreed, elaborating on how she viewed the recent growth of the technology. \u201cEverybody knows it. You just have to understand how it\u2019s going to happen. Because we still have to layer our consciousness on top of it, and use it as tools. Otherwise it\u2019s just a runaway train.\u201d<\/p>\n Witherspoon also touched on the founding of her latest company, Su<\/a>nnie, which focuses on creating digital magazines for young Gen Z women. Witherspoon spoke about being a creator for the company and the shifting economics of working in entertainment. \u201cYou have to be pragmatic when you have a company like mine, because time is your biggest asset. You can\u2019t waste time on things you can\u2019t get made.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With artificial intelligence looming over multiple creative industries, actress Reese Witherspoon believes that filmmaking will change drastically in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[289,18,117,1239,19,17,327,439],"class_list":{"0":"post-77954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-reese-witherspoon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}