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WME Co-Chairmen Christian Muirhead & Richard Weitz Optimistic About AI, Streaming Movies, Paramount Ownership & FAST Channels: “We Feel Really Good About The Future”


Two years on from being promoted to Co-Chairmen of WME, Christian Muirhead and Richard Weitz gave one of their first public interviews, talking about the future of the entertainment business, and in particular, AI, movies on streaming, the future of Paramount and FAST channel services such as Tubi. “Despite the challenges and the disruption, we have real […]

“Despite the challenges and the disruption, we have real confidence in the power of art, so we feel really good about the future,” said Muirhead at the FT’s Business of Entertainment conference. Weitz highlighted Seth MacFarlane’s short three-minute tape that became Family Guy as well as a Christmas video card that turned into SouthPark. Weitz, whose clients include Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Rob Lowe, also talked up Fox-owned free streamer Tubi.

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