Filmmaking is the intersection of art and commerce. But sometimes, the commerce people get a little out of hand.Kevin O'Leary, the investor and Shark Tank star who is somehow making his feature film debut in A24's Marty Supreme, has some notes for his director, Josh Safdie.The note? You should have used AI.Let's dive in. - YouTubewww.youtube.com"Mr. Wonderful" Wants Us To Use AI I have to admit, I was shocked to see Kevin O'Leary in the trailer for Marty Supreme. He's not an actor; he's a businessman, but I was also intrigued by why Josh Safdie cast him, and it didn't change my excitement to see the movie.Well, O'Leary is sort of doing his own press tour now, and while he was on a recent The Hill’s World of Travel podcast, O'Leary claimed the highly anticipated, $70 million-plus A24 film "wasted millions of dollars" by hiring human background actors."Almost every scene had as many as 150 extras," O'Leary said. "Now, those people have to stay awake for 18 hours, be completely dressed in the background... and yet, it costs millions of dollars to do that."His business-brained solution was just AI.He continued, “Why couldn’t you simply put AI agents in their place? Because they’re not the main actors. They’re 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’ve spent $35 million and made two movies.”O’Leary went on to say, “I’d argue...
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