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The Fourth Act: How Theaters Could Host the Next Era of Storytelling

A New Format for AI-Powered, Audience-Directed Cinema

Movie theaters are underused. AI video is expensive. Media companies sit on frozen IP. The Fourth Act reframes all three as a shared opportunity using modular, stylized AI films shaped by live audience input to reinvent cinema as a co-authored experience.

Media InnovationAI & StorytellingInteractive DesignFuture Formats
Published: June 13, 2025
Updated: December 12, 2025
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The Approach

Scott Jellen is an independent researcher focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability across digital and public systems. His flagship work, the Universal Sports Graph (USG), defines a neutral infrastructure layer for representing sports rights through published RFCs and a versioned reference registry. Additional briefs and whitepapers explore how incentive clarity and structural design shape scalable institutions.

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