{"id":245546,"date":"2025-10-23T07:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245546\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T07:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T07:47:20","slug":"kevin-oleary-believes-ai-extras-could-save-film-industry-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245546\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin O’Leary Believes AI Extras Could Save Film Industry “Millions”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKevin O\u2019Leary has no problem with AI<\/a> in Hollywood. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Shark Tank<\/a> star defended the use of AI in an appearance on The Hill\u2019s\u00a0World of Travel\u00a0podcast\u00a0arguing that A24\u2019s upcoming film Marty Supreme<\/a>, in which he appears, could have saved \u201cmillions of dollars\u201d if they had used \u201cAI agents\u201d in place of the 150 background actors on the film, so that \u201cmore movies could be made.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlmost every scene had as many as 150 extras. Now, those people have to stay awake for 18 hours, be completely dressed in the background. [They\u2019re] not necessarily in the movie, but they\u2019re necessary to be there moving around. And yet, it costs millions of dollars to do that,\u201d O\u2019Leary said. \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t you simply put AI agents in their place? Because they\u2019re not the main actors. They\u2019re only in the story visually. [You could] save millions of dollars, so more movies could be made. The same director, instead of spending $90 million or whatever he spent, could\u2019ve spent $35 million and made two movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Leary continued, \u201cI\u2019d argue for the sake of the art, you should allow it in certain cases, and extra is a really good-use case because you can\u2019t tell the difference. you just put a hundred Norwood Tillys {cq] in there and you\u2019re good.\u201d O\u2019Leary was referring to TIlly Norwood<\/a>, a digitally generated \u201cactor\u201d created by AI talent studio Xicoia, which provoked an outcry by SAG-AFTRA after it was reported last month <\/a>that a number of talent agents were interested in signing the creation.<\/p>\n

\n\tO\u2019Leary plays the husband to Gwyneth Paltrow\u2019s character in Josh Safdie\u2019s Marty Supreme, which stars Oscar nominee\u00a0Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>. The film, set in the world of 1950s ping pong culture, tells the story of Marty Mauser (Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarty Supreme is set for release in theaters on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin O\u2019Leary has no problem with AI in Hollywood. The Shark Tank star defended the use of AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,22842,56102,20234,74,110261],"class_list":{"0":"post-245546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-kevin-oleary","12":"tag-marty-supreme","13":"tag-shark-tank","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-tilly-norwood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}