AI is shaking up Hollywood. Here are the startups and investors leading the way. (www.businessinsider.com)

Hollywood is quietly being remade by AI startups and the investors backing them. Companies such as Wonder Studios, Moments Lab, Toonstar, Runway and Moonvalley are deploying machine learning across discovery, production and post‑production — from AI-powered search and personalized recommendations (Ecco, GlobalComix) to faster, cheaper animation, automated clipping for social, and advanced VFX like de‑aging and voice cloning. Major funding rounds and deals (Runway’s large raises and studio partnerships, Moonvalley’s $84M, Wonder’s $12M, Moments’ $24M) show investor confidence that models can cut costs, speed workflows (Moments claims 7× faster clip creation) and unlock new distribution hooks such as translation, real‑time multilingual dubbing, and interactive storytelling (Fable’s Showrunner). The boom comes amid tension: studios are simultaneously integrating AI and litigating against tools they say misuse IP (suits tied to Midjourney and concerns over OpenAI’s Sora). Practically, this means two parallel trends — commercial adoption that trains models on studio libraries and fuels new creator tools, and legal fights that will shape licensing, ownership and model‑training practices. Investors caution that consumer appetite for purely AI‑generated video is limited today; the likely winners will combine AI with proprietary content, personalization and strong user acquisition hooks rather than rely on synthetic video alone.