An AI script editor could help decide what films get made in Hollywood

Today it launched a new tool called Callaia, which amateur writers and professional script readers alike can use to analyze scripts at 79 each. Using AI, it takes Callaia less than a minute to write its own coverage, which includes a synopsis, a list of comparable films, grades for areas like dialogue and originality, and actor recommendations. It also makes a recommendation on whether or not the film should be financed, giving it a rating of "pass," "consider," "recommend," or "strongly recommend." Though the foundation of the tool is built with ChatGPT's API, the team had to coach the model on script-specific tasks like evaluating genres and writing a movie's logline, which summarize the story in a sentence. "It helps people understand the script very quickly," says Tobias Queisser, Cinelytic's cofounder and CEO, who also had a career as a film producer.