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Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed that fewer Star Wars movies and series will be produced in the future.
At Star Wars Celebration, there were several updates to the Star Wars timeline, including three upcoming films, the first theatrical releases since 2019.
Iger played a pivotal role in Star Wars going under the Disney umbrella when the company bought Lucasfilm in 2012.
Iger returned to the House of Mouse in November 2022 after a two-year run by former CEO Bob Chapek.
Originally, Iger was set to return until at least 2025, but now, his contract has been extended until the end of 2026. The ultimate goal is to find a proper predecessor for one of Earth’s biggest media and entertainment companies.
As Star Wars and other series across the board on Disney+ ramped up under Chapek, the company was losing over $1 billion on the streamer.
During a recent interview with Squawk BoxDisney CEO Bob Iger re-confirmed that the company will be “spending less on what [they] make and make less” projects like Star Wars.
When asked directly if they’ll be pulling back on Marvel and Star Wars projects, Iger simply responded,
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from Episode 2 of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” which debuted today on Netflix.
During an ’80s flashback in Mike Flanagan’s new horror series “The Fall of the House of Usher,” two characters have a decidedly contemporary conversation during which they discuss AI being used to write scripts.
In Episode 2, “The Masque of the Red Death,” during a scene which is set in 1980, the younger depiction of Roderick Usher (Zach Gilford) and his sister Madeline (Willa Fitzgerald) are talking about technology. The brilliant and devious Madeline opines on mathematics and technology, saying, “An algorithm is just a finite sequence of all defined instructions to solve a problem, or perform a computation. But, down the line, with computers, we could use them for anything. Financial markets, investments, predictive medical care. Hell, an algorithm could write movies and TV shows.”
Roderick looks skeptical and retorts, “Not well,” with Madeline making a chilling prediction: “You’ll see. Down the line we could mimic human consciousness.”
Although the scene was written and filmed well before the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, AI usage in Hollywood is one of the
