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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length screenplays that weren’t the product of a ...

On today's episode, Variety's Gene Maddaus details recent efforts to test AI-powered software against professional script readers. The results only raise more questions. Plus, a roundtable on the biz ...