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The Wizard of Oz Is Getting an AI Glow-Up

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September 07, 2025

The classic film was 'enhanced' using AI tools for an immersive experience at the Sphere in Las Vegas

- BROOKS BARNES

"Artistic butchery." "The death of cinema." "You should all be ashamed." Those are some of the printable comments from a frenzied online conversation among cinephiles that started last month when Ben Mankiewicz, the Turner Classic Movies host and CBS News Sunday Morning contributor, took an adulatory look at a coming Las Vegas attraction called "The Wizard of Oz at Sphere."

The orb-shaped arena, in partnership with Google, used various AI tools to create a new version of the beloved 1939 musical. But what about the vacationing masses who make up the target audience for the show? Will they recoil in the same way? Here is what you need to know.

What is all the criticism about?

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