Lion King director Rob Minkoff interview on AI in film [Video]

‘Hyperbole’ versus ‘legitimate concerns’

The arrival of new technology has for decades been a fear among people working in the film industry, Minkoff noted. For example, when computer animation arrived in the 1990s, there were similar fears about the impact it would have on jobs.

‘Always the human behind the technology’

The Reply AI Film Festival, which awarded three winners this week, started out as an internal competition among employees, with staff using AI tools to produce movie-quality videos, Filippo Rizzante, chief technology officer of Reply, told CNBC.

Correction: The headline of this story has been updated to correct the phrase “Wild West.” A previous version misstated the term.