>>I'm sure there are pieces of the multi-hundred-million dollar movie-production process that are easier to automate that script writing and acting. You assume

>>I'm sure there are pieces of the multi-hundred-million dollar movie-production process that are easier to automate that script writing and acting. You assume that is not already happening? How many physical effects people where displaced or had to find different things to do when CGI automated large amounts of physical effects? How much bigger would be budgets need to be to do physical effects instead of CGI? I am sure their are tons of other examples of automation and technology that allows a movie to be made with far less people. That is the natural progress of things.