the brAIn - real AI intelligence for media & entertainment
All about how generative AI is transforming the world of media and entertainment - hosted by leading expert Peter Csathy of Creative Media (creativemedia.biz).
"the brAIn" features Csathy's "insider" insights about the latest developments in generative AI and its impacts on media, entertainment, and the entire creative community. It also features interviews with leading artists, innovators, entrepreneurs, executives, and influencers. Each episode starts with Peter's humorous rundown of the latest key headlines in the world of AI, media and entertainment. The podcast is the companion to his newsletter "the brAIn" that reaches thousands of "movers and shakers" in the industry. You can find it at themediabrain.substack.com.
Peter is a renowned dealmaker, serial entrepreneur, business advisor, Harvard trained lawyer, writer, speaker, and overall creative force. He writes a weekly column about AI and the media industry in leading entertainment publication TheWrap. He has negotiated over $4 billion in deals, served as CEO and President of several pioneering media-tech companies that achieved successful exits, and as a senior dealmaker in major studios.
Peter has been a key driver and force for opening up entirely new markets, including on demand music streaming, online video platforms, and live social video streaming and chat. He is a believer that artists and creators sit at the center of the overall media, entertainment and tech universe. He also hosts the podcast series "The Story Behind the Song" on Consequence, where he interviews the most legendary artists of the past several decades about their most iconic songs. You can find that podcast at consequence.net/category/consequence-podcast-network/the-story-behind-the-song.
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the brAIn - real AI intelligence for media & entertainment
AI Studios Drive A New Hollywood Pay Model: Film Equity, Not Just Checks For Creatives
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This episode is a discussion of Peter Csathy's latest article in his "the brAIn" newsletter, which focuses on Hollywood’s long-standing compensation model for individual Creatives on film, television, and video projects. Each of those projects (like Christopher Nolan’s smash The Odyssey) is in its own way a startup venture.
Csathy's virtual co-hosts (generated by his article and prompts using Google NotebookLM) discuss whether generative AI’s rapid adoption in the entertainment business — led by AI studios and agencies — can rewrite Hollywood’s compensation model for Creatives. What if AI-transformed Hollywood borrows Silicon Valley’s startup playbook to give Creatives an actual slice of the economic pie for each individual project (like The Odyssey) in exchange for lower fixed compensation?
In such a re-imagined system, Hollywood Creatives aren’t just work-for-hire employees anymore. They’re actual stakeholders — invested in the overall success of the creative enterprise. In a sense, they're now on the film’s “cap table” (just like a tech startup employees’s equity stake shows up on the startup’s cap table).
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