Kauser Kanji
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On this week’s Riffs episode, Lydia and I discuss a range of topics including Sora 2 – OpenAI’s latest generative video AI model, Tilly Norwood – a new AI actor taking Hollywood by storm (or at least exercising human actors like Emily Blunt and trade unions like SAG-AFTRA), and the renewed threat by President Trump of tariffs being applied to movies not made in the US.
Here’s the article we refer to about tariffs that I posted back in April.
Watch the video below!
Chapters:
- 00:00 Tilly Norwood
- 03:19 Sora 2 from OpenAI
- 11:45 The possibility of a new Channel 4 Studios
- 15:31 Trump tariffs: James Bond is safe
- 19:32 Tariffs and classification challenges
- 22:43 Potential legal and practical implications of tariffs
- 26:31 Tariff-related stats
- 28:42 The Netflix-Killer
- 32:47 Recent industry coffees, meetings we’ve had
ABOUT KAUSER KANJI
Kauser Kanji has been working in online video for 20 years, formerly at Virgin Media and NBC Universal, and founded VOD Professional in 2011. He has since completed major OTT projects for, amongst others, A+E Networks, the BBC, BBC Studios, Channel 4, DR (Denmark), Liberty Global, Netflix, Sony Pictures, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and UKTV. He now writes industry analyses, hosts an online debate show, OTT Question Time, as well as its in-person sister event, OTT Question Time Live.