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AI-Generated Stories And Screenplays From GPT-4 Prompts

Could we theoretically generate 2000 story treatments or production screenplays in 30mins from basic loglines? AI is to knowledge work what the plough was to farming: a quantum leap in productivity. Let's take ten prompts, enter them differently, and see what GPT4 provides back. Our Source Material: The Idea ThesaurusIn

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How Are The Studios Doing?

Hollywood's in big trouble. How much trouble? Well, if you lost half a trillion dollars in a year and were thanking a Scientologist for saving theatrical, quite a considerable amount of trouble. And it's real money; not just garbage writing for useless sequels and reboots. And guess what: it's not

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The Editable "His Girl Friday" Screenplay in Final Draft, Fade In Pro, Fountain, and PDF Format

What's not to love about the legendary screwball caper from 1940? If you're new to His Girl Friday, you're in for a treat. It's one of the original "rapid-fire repartee" comedies which influenced Tarantino, Sorkin, and many others. The conversation is so rapid, it was declared the fastest in the

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The Black List's Back, And It's Worse Than Ever

Hollywood has a lot of lists. The Black List. The Blood List. The Brown List. The Brit List. The Next List. Every December, the results of a survey among execs is "published" as the Black List. It's definitely not being gamed as a circle jerk of votes-for-favours, it's definitely not

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Solving Velikovsky's Open Screenwriting Problems

In 2016, then-doctoral candidate Joe Velikovsky published his Ph.D thesis "Twenty-Four Open Problems In The Movie Screenwriting Domain", which was based on David Hilbert's 23 Mathematical Problems from 1900. An expanded version of the original idea appears on his website with forty-three items. Joe's work is extraordinary, in an

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Your Real Visitor's Guide To Old, Secret, and Scandalous Historic Hollywood

Don't pay for a tour. Forget Disneyland, the Studio tours, Griffith Observatory, Rodeo drive,Walk of Fame, and the museums. Hollywood has a century of the most bizarre, controversial history in the strangest places you probably haven't heard of. You pay to put your own star on the Walk of

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Hollywood's Byzantine Generals Moment: It's Time For A Decentralised Live P2P Movie Streaming Network

Amazon recently bought MGM, the last old-school studio in Hollywood. We're now in the laps of Big Tech: the kind of people who describe Friday night at The Pictures as "content". Our future as it currently stands is studios and production companies being commissioned to produce stale, woke garbage for

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The Hollywood Writer's Wokescore™ - A Geiger Counter For Filtering Out Irradiated Garbage

We all know it when we see it. Audiences are experts in sensing – and ignoring - the intentions of writers and filmmakers when they attempt to surreptitiously program their perception of reality. Stalin became fascinated with it and made the industrial capture of the art form a top political priority.

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The Sane Person's Guide To Los Angeles

So you did it. You transplanted from somewhere else far away to the glittering City of Angels on the sunny west coast; full of wonder, bluster, and hopey-changey stuff. You read three hundred Reddit threads and fetishistic digital blog articles about the 10 things you need to know, only to

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Why Can't Screenwriting Work Like Stage & Music Publishing?

Composers who write sheet music publish it as an original literary work to a library catalogue, and record labels purchase the rights to make a sound recording of it in the form of up-front payment and/or royalties. Is there any reason producers shouldn't operate as record labels, and license

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Toxic Tropes & Hollywood Economics

That Hollywood sees itself as a vehicle for social engineering is no secret. Whether it's the countless pro-America military extravaganzas (Top Gun, anyone?) or the mockery of it (Team America: World Police) or the ever-pervasive America Saves The World Again schema, the perception of Tinseltown as an engine for manipulating

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The Hollywood Face: the Marquardt Golden Phi Mask

Is there a scientific formula to on-camera beauty? Are there common characteristics to the facial shapes of the stars we deify in the form of celebrity? The old saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” has its merits, but when it comes to Hollywood, we see a certain

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Everything We Know About Screenwriting Is Wrong

Variety finally gets it.In academic circles, two of the most quoted scholars when discussing film are Harold Vogel, and Ian MacDonald. The former wrote “Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis”, which establishes many of the accepted statistics of the field, such as there been an estimated

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Science of the Hollywood Circus: a letter to a talented young actress

Ask any film industry veteran, and they will claim they are in any otherbusiness but film. Bruckheimer infamously claimed he was in the “transportation” business; just as the media tirelessly exhorts Hollywood is simply a marketing machine. The more cynical are far too oft to believe it is the “confectionery

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Recycling Archetypes, Fairytales, and Master Plots: where all your Hollywood movies come from

It’s a cruel irony, Aaron Sorkin cannibalised his view on artistic “recycling” from T.S Eliot’s brutal reflection of creative realpolitick: “Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.”The great scientist, Issac Newton, simply acknowledged his inspirations: “If I have seen further it

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Bond. Someone else’s idea of James Bond

Ian Fleming had a very interesting idea. It was an idea that lived for several books and a few films, but was thrown in the trash with his death ten years afterward. As the years have gone on, the Bond that Fleming imagined and designed from his estate in Jamaica