Overview

• Sphere confirms collaboration with Warner Bros. Discovery, Google DeepMind and Magnopus to upscale, outpaint and generate elements for the venue’s wraparound screen.
• Executives disclosed two blink-and-you-miss-it AI face replacements featuring James Dolan and David Zaslav on previously unidentifiable background characters.
• The presentation layers haptic seats, high-powered fans, scents, fog, flame units and flying mechanical monkeys over a remastered orchestral score in a 167,000-speaker soundfield.
• Production involved roughly 2,000 people and more than 1,800 unique AI assets, with the team emphasizing licensed use of archival materials to preserve stylistic fidelity.
• Opening-night response highlighted awe at the scale and strong advance ticket sales alongside criticism from film communities about altering a canonical work with AI.