For better or worse, casting notices often call for an actor with specific physical features: hair color, height, weight, race, etc. And while determining these casting restrictions is usually taken up by script readers (and sometimes even interns) at agencies and production companies, a new artificial intelligence system called ScriptHop may just revolutionize the game. Created to categorize and manage agencies and studio houses’ hundreds of thousands of scripts, ScriptHop analyzes its given database in seconds, searching for specific requirements in talent, characters’ emotional arcs, and even box-office potential. Per the system’s site, ScriptHop becomes the “personal librarian, concierge, and script guru for everyone in the organization.” Welcome to the future! While founders Scott Foster (formerly of UTA’s story department) and the venture’s tech muscle Brian Austin are keeping the technology’s secrets under wraps, studio execs and agents can test the product for themselves as of Feb.
- 2/17/2016
- backstage.com
A version of this story first appeared in the Feb. 26 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. During his 12 years in UTA's story department, Scott Foster estimates he read about 5,500 screenplays. “Even if it was the worst script ever, I had to read it cover to cover,” he says. So when Foster left the agency in 2013, he teamed with Portland, Ore.-based techie Brian Austin to create ScriptHop, an artificial intelligence system that manages the volume of screenplays that every agency and studio houses. “When I took
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- 2/17/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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