I just finished a new spec script, and one of the things I really tried to do this time was to make sure each scene ...

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 ...

I worked as a script reader (back when human beings were still doing that kind of thing) and I never DNF'd a script. But there were times I wanted to, simply because the writing and/or story wasn't ...

In a nutsell, the test arranged by the cutter’s union documented that AI tools are great for organizing, classifying and summarizing. Giving helpful notes with observations on the merits of the ...

Callaia provides analysis and feedback on scripts in seconds. But, as AI models are trained to be, it might be too nice to be truly useful. Every day across Hollywood, scores of film school graduates ...

Northern Ireland-based Catherine McGrotty is one of the newest members of our team of freelance Script Readers, who support our team through the reading stages of the BBC Writers Open Call. She gives ...

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 ...

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 ...