Media and Entertainment’s Biggest Innovations of 2025

Hollywood isn’t traditionally known as a fount of innovation. But with the rise of artificial intelligence driving new ways of thinking, that’s changing.

The year saw the industry take some big swings, like the Las Vegas Sphere getting into the theatrical business with an enhanced version of “The Wizard of Oz,” or the revival of a long-dead format for cinephiles.

Then there’s AI, a technology that Hollywood is still coming to grips with given its potential to disrupt, well, everything.