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Applying color balancing in photoshop doesn't make the original image taken by a photographer the product of a machine.

Laws are not black and white.

The whole point of lawsuits and lengthy opinions by judges is to have a nuanced interpretation of the law.

If the whole movie would be generated by a computer from a single sentence then yes, it wouldn't be copyrightable.

But as long as producing movie involves human screen writers, human directors, human performers, human camera operators etc. they are obviously creative works of those humans and therefore copyrightable.