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โ€˜The 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

โ€œArtistic butchery.โ€

โ€œThe death of cinema.โ€

โ€œYou 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 โ€œCBS News Sunday Morningโ€ contributor, took an adulatory look at a coming Las Vegas attraction called โ€œโ€˜The 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.

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