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David Wain and Ken Marino break down how they went from having “no concept” to a completed first draft of “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” in a week. “The exercise is sourced out of the idea ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

Hollywood loves efficiency. So when generative AI started being used to produce loglines, concept art, rough cuts and even serviceable dialogue, the industry did what it always does: It experimented.

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability. The WinterCG community group was recently ...

A video script is, in many ways, no different than a script for a feature film or television show: It’s a written blueprint for the visual story you want to tell. Now, in terms of format, a video ...

If you’re an avid podcast fan, you’ll notice that there are (broadly speaking) two types of shows: non-narrative and narrative. Non-narrative podcasts are more freewheeling, constructed around ...

Scott Z. Burns tried to use AI to write a “Contagion” sequel as shared in the illuminating new podcast “What Could Go Wrong?” In Hollywood, there seem to be two camps when it comes to AI. Some preach ...

Artificial intelligence is absolutely everywhere these days, from generative AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to music, photo and video creators like Dall-E, HeyGen and Suno AI. For many ...