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Technically Creative is brought to you by KoobrikLabs, your AI transformation partner for creative companies.

What happens when AI moves upstream into the creative process, before the camera ever rolls?

Recorded live at Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit 2026, this episode of Technically Creative brings together filmmakers, producers, technologists and creative leaders to explore how generative AI is changing film development, screenwriting, ideation, visualization, storyboarding and plot structure.

The conversation focuses on the part of filmmaking that can be the hardest to accelerate: turning the first spark of an idea into something structured enough to make.

Orlando Wood, founder of KoobrikLabs, joins Russell Palmer, CEO & Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI and SAGA; Matt Pfeffer, Executive Producer and President of Ritual Labs; Albert Thompson, creative and digital innovation leader; Alex Gocke, VP of Sales at Largo; and moderator Annie Hanlon, Co-Founder of PLAYBOOK PLBK.

Together, they examine how AI is becoming a new kind of creative collaborator. Not simply a tool for generating finished images or video, but a system for helping filmmakers explore possibilities, interrogate ideas, develop characters, visualize scenes, build storyboards and pressure-test narrative structure.

The panel explores:

How filmmakers and writers are actually using AI in the creative development process

The emerging AI tools for screenwriting, story development and pre-production

Using AI for concept visualization and storyboarding

Where AI helps creativity and where human taste, judgment and experience still matter

How creative companies can adopt AI without surrendering the creative process to technology

Why the biggest opportunity may be using AI to make great creative people more ambitious, rather than simply making production cheaper

For anyone working in film, television, advertising, production, screenwriting or entertainment technology, this is a practical look at what an AI-assisted creative pipeline is starting to look like in 2026.

Technically Creative is the technology podcast for people who don’t think they’re technical, but increasingly need to understand the systems shaping creative work.

Keywords: AI filmmaking, generative AI film, AI screenwriting, AI storyboarding, AI pre-production, AI for filmmakers, artificial intelligence entertainment, film technology, AI storytelling, creative AI, Digital Hollywood, AI Entertainment Summit, SAGA AI, KoobrikLabs, future of filmmaking.

In this third bonus episode of Technically Creative, Orlando Wood continues his conversation with legendary Hollywood producer Jon Peters, the producer behind Batman, A Star Is Born, Caddyshack, Flashdance, Superman, and many of the biggest blockbuster films of the 1980s and 1990s.
In Part One, we explored Jon Peters' unlikely journey from hairdresser to Hollywood producer through his partnership with Barbra Streisand and the making of A Star Is Born. In Part Two, we followed the rise of the Guber-Peters Company and Jon's partnership with Peter Guber, one of the most successful producing collaborations in Hollywood history.
In this episode, the story shifts from filmmaking to something bigger.
By this point, Jon Peters has already produced some of the most influential films of his era. A Star Is Born helped redefine movie marketing and soundtrack albums. Batman became one of the highest-grossing films of all time. The Guber-Peters partnership was reshaping Hollywood.
But success was never the destination.
Every achievement simply became permission to dream bigger.
This conversation explores how Jon Peters thought about blockbuster filmmaking, movie marketing, soundtrack albums, intellectual property, franchising, and the business of entertainment long before Hollywood became obsessed with cinematic universes and franchise ecosystems.
We discuss how A Star Is Born created a blueprint for soundtrack-driven movie marketing, why film soundtracks became a critical revenue stream for studios, and how Jon viewed movies as much more than what audiences saw on screen.
The conversation eventually leads to Sony Pictures Entertainment, where Jon Peters and Peter Guber found themselves running one of the most powerful movie studios in Hollywood.
And even that wasn't enough.
Because while most executives saw a studio, Jon saw a launching pad.
We explore:
• How A Star Is Born changed movie marketing and soundtrack strategy
• The relationship between Hollywood films, soundtrack albums, and blockbuster profitability
• Why Jon believed the movie wasn't the only product being sold
• How Wild Wild West and its hit soundtrack became a case study in entertainment marketing
• The road from Batman to running Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Jon Peters' vision for "Sony Land" and expanding beyond the traditional movie studio model
• Superman, intellectual property, and the future of franchise storytelling
• The connection between Hollywood, the UFC, Dana White, entrepreneurship, and instinct
• Why Jon Peters believes success should expand your ambitions rather than satisfy them
Like the previous conversations, this episode is funny, reflective, controversial, and uniquely Jon.
It's also a fascinating look at Hollywood history, blockbuster filmmaking, movie producing, studio leadership, entertainment marketing, soundtrack albums, intellectual property, and the mindset that helped shape some of the biggest films of the modern era.
If you're interested in Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Batman, Sony Pictures, Superman, Hollywood producers, blockbuster movies, movie marketing, or the business of filmmaking, this chapter goes deeper still.
More to come.

A special live episode recorded at British Arrows.
This panel explores how AI is reshaping creative work, from workflows and production systems to decision-making and craft. As more companies adopt AI tools, the real challenge is shifting from experimentation to implementation, redesigning how work actually gets done.
We discuss the gap between AI adoption and real impact, why most organizations are still layering AI onto existing workflows, and what changes when you move toward AI-native systems. The conversation also looks at agents, automation, and the evolving role of creative professionals in an AI-driven environment.
At the center of it all is craft. What remains human, what becomes automated, and why judgment, taste, and creative instinct are becoming more valuable, not less.
Recorded live at British Arrows, this is a conversation about the future of AI in creative industries, including film, advertising, and media.
Technically Creative is brought to you by KoobrikLabs, the AI transformation partner for creative companies.

What actually makes creative work matter?
In this final episode of Season 3 of Technically Creative, Orlando Wood sits down with Simon Cooper and Charlie Gatsky Sinclair — the outgoing and incoming Chairs of the British Arrows — as the awards reach their 50th year.
The British Arrows is one of the most prestigious institutions in advertising, celebrating excellence in craft, storytelling, and creative execution across film, television, and digital media.
But this conversation isn’t just about advertising.
It’s about craft.
Taste.
And the value of effort in an age where AI is making creative work faster and easier than ever.
As artificial intelligence, automation, and new production tools reshape the creative industries, a deeper question emerges:
What do we actually value in creative work?
Because while AI can generate content at scale, the work that resonates — the work that lasts — still carries the imprint of human effort, judgment, and taste.
Drawing on 50 years of advertising history, this episode explores how creative industries evolve through technological change, why audiences still respond to human endeavour, and what the future of creativity might look like in the age of AI.
In this episode:
The evolution of the British Arrows over 50 years
Craft vs automation in the age of AI
Why effort and difficulty still matter in creative work
The role of taste in advertising, film, and storytelling
The Young Arrows and supporting emerging creative talent
How AI is changing the creator economy and media industries
What the best advertising work still gets right
Technically Creative is a podcast about AI, creativity, and the business of making things.
Brought to you by KoobrikLabs — helping creative companies implement AI in safe, practical, and transformative ways.

In this episode of Technically Creative, we sit down with Dan Jasnow, the Head of IP at ElevenLabs. He sits at the intersection of IP, legal, and policy at ElevenLabs and we talk about what copyright, consent, and control look like in the age of AI.
Before joining ElevenLabs, Dan spent over a decade advising companies across media, entertainment, and technology on how to navigate intellectual property in a rapidly changing landscape. Now, he’s on the inside — helping shape how one of the world’s leading AI companies approaches voice, licensing, and responsible deployment.
As voice becomes a primary interface for interacting with technology, the stakes are changing. Questions around ownership, authorship, and rights are no longer theoretical — they’re operational.
Dan shares what actually goes into building AI systems responsibly, how companies can work directly with rights holders rather than around them, and why many of the fears surrounding AI come from a misunderstanding of how these systems are designed and controlled.
Orlando and Dan explore:
Why voice may become the dominant interface for AI
How ElevenLabs approaches consent, licensing, and control
The difference between how AI is perceived and how it actually works
What changes when you move from advising AI companies to building inside one
The evolving role of copyright and fair use in AI development
How regulation is struggling to keep pace with innovation
Why trust is becoming a competitive advantage in AI
It’s a thoughtful, grounded conversation about IP, responsibility, and the future of human and machine interaction — and what it takes to build powerful technology while maintaining trust with the people it affects.