Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed ...

In a nutsell, the test arranged by the cutter’s union documented that AI tools are great for organizing, classifying and summarizing. Giving helpful notes with observations on the merits of the ...

The widespread use of AI is reshaping how authorship is understood. When machines can generate fluent text, the value of ...

As writer Van Robichaux puts it, he only has an agent because an assistant read one of his scripts, liked it and flagged the right person. That assistant went on to become a producer on the ...

What does it mean for a writer, such as a novelist, to have a unique "voice"? And does artificial intelligence (AI) help or hurt that voice? Microsoft researchers set out to answer that question with ...

Let’s hope Tilly Norwood has signed with an agent, because Paul Schrader appears to have just the project for Hollywood’s growing dependence on AI. The Oscar nominee recently said that he expects ...

Maddaus’ report, available in Variety’s Oct. 15 print edition and at Variety.com, reveals that the Editors Guild recently arranged a human vs. computer test of professional script readers against ...