Aspen session argues Hollywood's future belongs to creators who control AI — not the studios

Hollywood's future is shifting away from the studio system that has governed the industry for a century — toward creators who control AI and independent filmmakers working outside the traditional pipeline.

That is the diagnosis that emerged from inside Hollywood itself, and the structural forces behind it are visible: streaming has dismantled the legacy studio model, strikes and a production exodus have hollowed out Los Angeles, and AI has already entered the production pipeline through pre-visualization and the digital multiplication of background actors.

조디 포스터 ”할리우드의 미래는 AI를 지배하는 창작자의 것”
조디 포스터와 마이클 린튼 전 소니픽처스 CEO가 아스펜 아이디어 페스티벌 ‘Who Owns the Future of Hollywood’ 세션에서 ”할리우드의 미래는 100년을 지배한 스튜디오 시스템이 아니라 AI를 통제하는 창작자와 독립 크리에이터의 것”이라고 진단
K-EnterTech HubJung Han

Consumer research, meanwhile, shows audiences across generations resist generative AI in the creative core — scripts and digital replicas of actors — even as they accept it in technical craft. Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster and former Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton laid out this outlook at the Aspen Ideas Festival session "Who Owns the Future of Hollywood." Foster ignited the debate by suggesting that 'F1,' Apple's blockbuster that swept last year's awards season, might itself be a product of AI.