Hollywood had its eyes on Web Summit Lisbon this week — where Tilly Norwood creator Eline van der Velden joined Ankler Media EIC Janice Min to showcase her AI “actress.” But Wild Sheep Content CEO Erik Barmack, our <a href="https://theankler.com/s/reel-ai">Reel AI columnist</a>, tells Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey that the fixation on Tilly misses the <a href="https://theankler.com/p/fade-to-black-hollywoods-ai-era-jobs">far more consequential story</a>: the unmistakable warning signs of AI’s encroachment and the decades of strategic drift that have left Hollywood uniquely exposed to Big Tech’s ambitions. Which jobs remain genuinely AI-proof? Which ones are already dissolving beneath us? And what does it mean for a creative economy when the apprenticeship ladder that produces future writers, directors and executives is sawed off at the base? Barmack offers a rigorous, unsentimental map of a crisis now unfolding faster, and more decisively, than the town wants to acknowledge. Plus: David Ellison hosts <a href="https://theankler.com/p/par-q3-ads-movies-jobs-cost-savings">Paramount Skydance’s debut</a> on Wall Street, and Richard Rushfield charts the <a href="https://theankler.com/p/the-death-of-dramatic-films-hollywood">steady disappearance of dramatic films</a> from America’s movie screens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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