Hollywood and Big Tech Are Preparing for War

A barrage of seemingly unrelated headlines suggest that Hollywood and Big Tech are on a collision course and that the next few years will reshape how the world spends its free time and which platforms will dominate. As tech and AI companies push further into entertainment and media, their stewardship of that content (or lack thereof) is becoming a story unto itself. At the same time, strategic maneuvers by Amazon, YouTube, and Meta appear designed to take over the biggest screen in the home: the TV set, ultimately stealing time from legacy studios in what is effectively a zero sum game. So how are traditional media companies trying to fight back? By pursuing megadeals of their own to give them the scale or leverage they need to even have a shot at competing.