The Market Signal

Yesterday, a must-watch podcast interview debuted between film-maker James Cameron by Meta CTO and Head of Reality Labs Andrew “Boz” Bosworth.

Media coverage—particularly from the Hollywood trades—focused on Cameron’s response about why he joined the board of Stability AI, a UK-based artificial intelligence company best known for its text-to-image model Stable Diffusion.

Cameron responded for blockbusters like “Dune”, “Dune: Part Two”, or “big effects-heavy, [computer graphics (“CG”)]-heavy films” to continue to succeed in Hollywood, there is a need to figure out how to cut the cost” of those budgets “in half”.

He added:

That’s not about laying off half the staff and at the effects company. That’s about doubling their speed to completion on a given shot so your cadence is faster and your throughput cycle is faster, and artists get to move on and do other cool things and then other cool things…”

This was actually the least interesting comment in the interview.