{"id":342964,"date":"2025-10-30T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:02:22","slug":"paramount-ceo-reportedly-plans-to-use-ai-to-increase-movie-and-tv-output-if-wbd-merger-goes-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342964\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount CEO Reportedly Plans To Use AI To Increase Movie And TV Output If WBD Merger Goes Through"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plot thickens for the potential merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance, because artificial intelligence has reportedly entered the conversation. Though multiple parties have been said to be\u00a0interested in acquiring WBD following the company’s sale announcement\u2014such parties include\u00a0Netflix<\/strong><\/a> and Apple\u2014the biggest contender to become the studio’s new owner appears to be Paramount Skydance\u00a0CEO David Ellison.<\/p>\n

The company has so far sent in three bids, each adding new things to make\u00a0the proposal more\u00a0attractive for the WBD board (one of the\u00a0added perks\u00a0was making WBD CEO David Zaslav co-CEO<\/a><\/strong> of a\u00a0merged\u00a0Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery).\u00a0All three bids have been rejected, but Ellison seems\u00a0determined to acquire the studio. Now, an interesting report\u00a0has come out about the CEO’s purported plans should WBD end up merging with Paramount.<\/p>\n

In a report\u00a0about\u00a0the current potential-merger situation, Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0stated\u00a0that Ellison intends\u00a0to “take advantage of new technologies, like artificial intelligence, to produce more films and TV shows.”<\/strong>\u00a0According to Bloomberg’s sources, he intends for a potentially merged Paramount-WBD to have an\u00a0output of 30 movies per year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the span of only a few years, AI has become a potential disruptor in the industry. Multiple creatives (such as Guillermo del Toro<\/a><\/strong>, for example) and guilds have spoken about the use of the technology. In fact, its use was a major point<\/a><\/strong> of contention in the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Yet, at the same time, more and more creatives and executives appear to be leaning toward employing\u00a0the technology. Many\u00a0high-profile productions have already used\u00a0it\u2014a good example being Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, given the contentiousness of artificial intelligence, many such\u00a0productions don’t openly advertise their use of the technology. In the cases where AI use\u00a0is uncovered, apologies or statements<\/a><\/strong> on the matter are usually released. However, if WBD does indeed merge with Paramount, and Ellison’s purported plans come to fruition, the CEO would take the first major step in normalizing AI usage in Hollywood. After that, it would\u00a0only be a matter of time before other studios follow suit\u00a0and AI becomes openly commonplace in the entertainment industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As of now, Warner Bros. Discovery has not accepted bids from potential buyers, so there is still some time before we know what actions a potential\u00a0new owner of the company will take. However, given how strong a contender Paramount seems to be in the race to buy the studio, it’s likelier than not that Ellison will end up acquiring it. Thus, Bloomberg’s report may provide\u00a0a reasonable\u00a0idea of what to expect from WBD should it merge with Paramount.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plot thickens for the potential merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance, because artificial intelligence has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,32129,47781,954,1020,36552,38349,53,15329,77684,158,399,173,67,132,68,27281],"class_list":{"0":"post-342964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-david-ellison","11":"tag-david-zaslav","12":"tag-dc-studios","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-harry-potter","15":"tag-lord-of-the-rings","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-paramount","18":"tag-paramount-skydance","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-warner-bros-discovery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115462782570728283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}