While artificial intelligence researcher Yves Bergquist believes we’re “far away” from AI being able to take over for screenwriters, he said Tuesday at The Grill 2018 that could still have tremendous impact on the kinds of stories that get made in Hollywood.
That’s in part due to how AI applications could help process “low level data” for studios that could help them think beyond their assumptions about what audiences will or will not embrace.
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“If you look at the mathematical structure of narrative that’s been told in film or TV, you see there are not that many unique stories,” he said at the event, held at the Sls Hotel Beverly Hills. “I think what’s going on is creators are censoring themselves and telling the stories that are tried and true over and over and over again.
That’s in part due to how AI applications could help process “low level data” for studios that could help them think beyond their assumptions about what audiences will or will not embrace.
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“If you look at the mathematical structure of narrative that’s been told in film or TV, you see there are not that many unique stories,” he said at the event, held at the Sls Hotel Beverly Hills. “I think what’s going on is creators are censoring themselves and telling the stories that are tried and true over and over and over again.
- 10/3/2018
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
Casting is at the heart of the changing entertainment business – but is audition by Skype the only way to go digital?
Serial entrepreneurs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin are disrupting and remaking the casting process. And they’re bringing their ideas to TheGrill this year.
“We’re modernizing the technology for everyone to use,” said Amin last week over lunch with TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman. “Right now, an agent might spend two hours having to put together the right package of photos, pick the right clients to submit.”
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That, they said, is too long. The co-CEOs – who met at UCLA a couple of decades ago – acquired Casting Networks and Cast It to create a cutting-edge digital platform that hosts over half a million profiles and facilitates over a million auditions per year.
Serial entrepreneurs Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin are disrupting and remaking the casting process. And they’re bringing their ideas to TheGrill this year.
“We’re modernizing the technology for everyone to use,” said Amin last week over lunch with TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman. “Right now, an agent might spend two hours having to put together the right package of photos, pick the right clients to submit.”
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That, they said, is too long. The co-CEOs – who met at UCLA a couple of decades ago – acquired Casting Networks and Cast It to create a cutting-edge digital platform that hosts over half a million profiles and facilitates over a million auditions per year.
- 9/5/2018
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
Shares of AMC Networks Inc. fell as much as 4.5 percent on Thursday after the entertainment company reported earnings for the second quarter that came in below Wall Street expectations.
AMC Networks reported adjusted earnings of $1.93 per share, which was an improvement from the $1.88 per share earnings the company reported during the same quarter a year ago. But that fell short of the $1.98 earnings per share analysts were hoping to see, according to estimates per Yahoo Finance.
The company saw revenue jump to $761.4 million from the $710.5 million the network reported last year. Revenue for the quarter exceeded analysts’ expectations for $730.8 million.
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Revenue from AMC Networks’ national cable stations — including IFC, BBC America and We tv — saw a 3.7 percent increase, accounting for $627.3 million of the net total, while international and other revenue ballooned 32.4 percent to $146.7 million.
AMC Networks reported adjusted earnings of $1.93 per share, which was an improvement from the $1.88 per share earnings the company reported during the same quarter a year ago. But that fell short of the $1.98 earnings per share analysts were hoping to see, according to estimates per Yahoo Finance.
The company saw revenue jump to $761.4 million from the $710.5 million the network reported last year. Revenue for the quarter exceeded analysts’ expectations for $730.8 million.
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Revenue from AMC Networks’ national cable stations — including IFC, BBC America and We tv — saw a 3.7 percent increase, accounting for $627.3 million of the net total, while international and other revenue ballooned 32.4 percent to $146.7 million.
- 8/2/2018
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
Sundance Now, AMC Networks’ streaming video on demand service, is wading into the podcast waters for the first time with a new scripted crime series starring Jeanne Tripplehorn (“Big Love”) and Ray McKinnon (“Sons of Anarchy”).
The show, “Exeter,” was announced at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles on Saturday. “Exeter” will follow Tripplehorn as hardened detective Colleen Clayton as she grapples with the wrongful conviction of a woman sent to prison for murder a decade earlier. A run of shocking ritualistic murders in her South Carolina town puts Clayton at odds with her department and outgoing partner, Lester, played by McKinnon.
“Sundance Now could not be more excited to be entering the scripted podcast space with such a riveting story, brilliantly brought to life by two outstanding actors — the indomitable Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ray McKinnon, whom we are thrilled to have back in the Sundance fold,...
The show, “Exeter,” was announced at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles on Saturday. “Exeter” will follow Tripplehorn as hardened detective Colleen Clayton as she grapples with the wrongful conviction of a woman sent to prison for murder a decade earlier. A run of shocking ritualistic murders in her South Carolina town puts Clayton at odds with her department and outgoing partner, Lester, played by McKinnon.
“Sundance Now could not be more excited to be entering the scripted podcast space with such a riveting story, brilliantly brought to life by two outstanding actors — the indomitable Jeanne Tripplehorn and Ray McKinnon, whom we are thrilled to have back in the Sundance fold,...
- 7/28/2018
- by Sean Burch
- The Wrap
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