Is Netflix having financial troubles that mean it uses CGI instead of building sets and performing physical stunts and effects?

Netflix is building a large part of their production style around people keeping netflix running in the background 24/7. Writers are told to have the characters frequently "exposition dump" because the viewers aren't actually watching. Generative AI makes total sense if you have a product that no one is actually watching; just using employing it the same way I employ a white noise machine to help my toddler sleep.

Not really, but film and TV production is a business like any other.

You aren't just given some money and told to do whatever - there is a significant amount of capital raised and GTM plans created.

It actually isn't much different from VC - I've found the mechanisms around film/TV production financing to be fairly similar.

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