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Film Can Disney Afford All-Out War With Google Over AI Dispute?

December 11, 2025, might be remembered as a defining day in Hollywood’s dance with artificial intelligence. That’s when Disney gave with one hand (inking a head-turning deal with OpenAI to hand characters to Sora) and took away with another (demanding that Google’s AI products stop behaving like a “virtual vending machine” for the media giant’s IP). In his latest ‘Rendering’ column, Deadline’s International Investigations Editor Jake Kanter looks at what’s next in this battle of the titans.

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