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Sphere Entertainment's AI-enhanced "Wizard of Oz" show premieres, sparking controversy among cinephiles. The show features AI-generated additions and cuts, raising questions about AI's role in filmmaking.
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โThe Wizard of Ozโ Is Getting an A.I. Glow-Up. Cue the Pitchforks. By Brooks Barnes Published Aug. 28, 2025Updated Aug. 29, 2025, 6:28 a.m. ET โArtistic butchery.โ โThe death of cinema.โ โYou should all be ashamed.โ Those are some of the printable comments from a frenzied online conversation among cinephiles that started last month when Ben Mankiewicz, the Turner Classic Movies host and โCBS News Sunday Morningโ contributor, took an adulatory look at a coming Las Vegas attraction called โโThe Wizard of Ozโ at Sphere.โ The orb-shaped arena, in partnership with Google, used various A.I. tools to create a new version of the beloved 1939 musical. But what about the vacationing masses who make up the target audience for the show? Will they recoil in the same way? We will soon find out. The premiere will take place on Thursday evening, with the arena offering as many as three showings a day after that. Here is what you need to know. What is all the criticism about? It is easy to u...
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