{"id":34083,"date":"2026-08-09T06:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34083"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:50:36","slug":"warner-bros-uses-ai-dog-podcast-to-promote-the-end-of-oak-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34083","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Uses AI Dog Podcast to Promote &#8216;The End of Oak Street&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/warner-bros-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_warner-bros-2\" data-tag=\"warner-bros-2\">Warner Bros<\/a>. has teamed with the AI dog podcast \u201cDogPack\u201d to promote its upcoming sci-fi action film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-end-of-oak-street\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-end-of-oak-street\" data-tag=\"the-end-of-oak-street\">The End of Oak Street<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 90-second podcast clip, hosted by an AI golden retriever named Goldie and an AI French bulldog named Frenchie, features an interview with Starbuck, who plays Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor\u2019s dog in \u201cOak Street.\u201d Starbuck, of course, is also animated using uncanny AI effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn the opening moments of the interview, Frenchie asks Starbuck, \u201cWhich one of your human co-stars was the best trained?\u201d Starbuck replies, \u201cEwan McGregor was excellent with treats. Anne Hathaway matched him there, but she could scratch behind both ears at once. Game over!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe video was shared across the Warner Bros. socials. On Instagram, most of the commenters were excited about the collab, but some took issue with the studio opting to use AI in their promotional material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOne commenter wrote, \u201cBillion dollar company using AI. slop.\u201d Another comment with over 400 likes read, \u201cSo is this an AI movie or????\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFrom writer-director David Robert Mitchell, \u201cThe End of Oak Street\u201d follows a suburban family who must survive a dinosaur horde after their neighborhood is miraculously transported through space-time. Outside of Hathaway and McGregor, cast members include Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, Jordan Alexa Davis and P.J. Byrne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJ.J. Abrams produced the film under his Bad Robot banner. During a recent press event, Abrams said that one of the reasons he believed in \u201cOak Street\u201d is because it\u2019s a high-concept blockbuster anchored by very real family dynamics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/the-end-of-oak-street-new-footage-anne-hathaway-ewan-mcgregor-dinosaurs-4dx-1236815202\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He told Mitchell<\/a>, \u201cThe brilliance of what you wrote is that each of the characters has a secret, essentially. Each of the characters has something they\u2019re wrestling with, but they\u2019re a family that you so connect with and so root for and believe in. It\u2019s not a sadistic movie. It\u2019s got a big heart at its core.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Bros. has teamed with the AI dog podcast \u201cDogPack\u201d to promote its upcoming sci-fi action film \u201cThe End of Oak Street.\u201d The 90-second podcast clip, hosted by an AI golden retriever named Goldie and an AI French bulldog named Frenchie, features an interview with Starbuck, who plays Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor\u2019s dog in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MixCollage-08-Aug-2026-04-28-PM-6403.jpg?crop=0px%2C54px%2C1200px%2C675px&resize=1000%2C563","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}