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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms ...

Exclusive: A new study tries to answer what Hollywood's anonymous gatekeepers think makes a great screenplay. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length ...

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 ...

Catherine McGrotty gives an update from the Open Call reading and shares a few pointers about which scripts are cutting through, from her point of view. Northern Ireland-based Catherine McGrotty is ...

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 ...