[…] Sora’s most urgent implications for the film and TV industry, though, go beyond its ability to instantly generate “a stylish woman in Tokyo.” It ostensibly has video-to-video editing, which means users can drop into its simulated worlds anything they filmed in the real one. The model’s “sampling flexibility” also allows them to view the same prompt from other perspectives, like a digital panopticon. With advances like these, Tyler Perry is correct in sensing the budget-slashing opportunities Sora represents. It has the power to save production costs, not just in special effects and pre-visualization, but in second-unit tasks like capturing establishment and master shots. […]