{"id":452963,"date":"2026-02-06T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452963\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:31:14","slug":"lionsgate-hires-first-chief-ai-officer-kathleen-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452963\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate Hires First Chief AI Officer Kathleen Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLionsgate<\/a> is leaning into AI, hiring Kathleen Grace to serve as its first-ever Chief AI Officer.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn this new role, Grace will lead the studio\u2019s AI strategy and execution. Lionsgate says her duties will include providing \u201ctools to serve the creative vision of its filmmakers, create opportunities for new efficiencies in its production, marketing, distribution and administrative operations, and spearhead initiatives to protect the IP of the studio and its talent partners.\u201d Grace will report to Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer and will be part of the company\u2019s senior decision-making team.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKathleen understands the AI ecosystem from the perspective of creators and IP holders alike, and she is the right person\u00a0to lead our team forward in this exciting, complex and nuanced environment,\u201d Feltheimer said. \u201cHer AI expertise and digital media savvy will help us grow alongside our talent partners as we create new opportunities, establish new safeguards, and execute new strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrace previously served as chief strategy officer at AI company Vermillio, described as the first AI platform built to license and protect IP and likeness. At Vermillio, Grace dealt with AI protection and rights management and was responsible for ensuring that content owners and talent were able to track, authenticate and be compensated for the use of their work in AI models. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re proud to see Kathleen step into a pioneering role as the first Chief AI Officer at a Hollywood studio,\u201d said Dan Neely, co-founder and CEO of Vermillio. \u201cShe\u2019s been a valued part of Vermillio\u2019s growth and we\u2019re excited to see her use her experience to help shape the future of AI in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrace previously headed New Form, a digital studio backed by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Discovery Communications. There, she developed more than 40 pilots and sold nearly 25 series to networks and platforms including TBS, go90, Freeform, Quibi and Refinery29. She also spearheaded YouTube\u2019s global Spaces initiative, establishing creator studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m very excited to become part of the team at Lionsgate. They have amazing creative partners, a rich and diverse portfolio of IP, an entrepreneurial and forward-looking culture, and a willingness to adapt to and embrace new technologies,\u201d said Grace. \u201cI look forward to collaborating with their team of executives focused on the AI space, supporting initiatives already underway while taking their AI strategy to the next level in its ability to expand the creative palette for their storytellers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate, the film and TV studio behind film franchises including \u201cJohn Wick\u201d and \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d has been bullish on AI. In 2024, the company announced a deal to train an AI model on the company\u2019s library of content<\/a>, which the studio would then use to develop new material.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe continue to find\u00a0exciting new use cases as we apply AI to more areas of our business, increasing our productivity, generating cost savings and expanding our\u00a0creative tool kit,\u201d Feltheimer said during a recent earnings call with analysts. He stressed that he was only in favor of AI if \u201cappropriate guardrails are established.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate is leaning into AI, hiring Kathleen Grace to serve as its first-ever Chief AI Officer. In this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,14968,74],"class_list":["post-452963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-lionsgate","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452963","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=452963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}