Remember when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA went on strike for months, in great part to get protections against AI? Well, while they did get some stipulations in there, it's not stopping AI from coming to Hollywood anyways. Lionsgate, the studio behind the John Wick and Hunger Games franchises, has struck a deal with AI startup Runway, the Wall Street Journal first reported and Runway confirmed in a press release. The arrangement will allow Runway access to Lionsgate's content library in exchange for a fresh, custom AI model that the studio can use in production and editing. The deal is similar to recent (and equally icky feeling) ones with publishing houses such as TIME and Dotdash Meredith, but it is the first of its kind for the film and TV industry. Vice chairman of Lionsgate Studio, Michael Burns, said that in recent months, he feared falling behind competitors without a step like this. "Runway is a visionary, best-in-class partner who will help us utilize AI to develop cutting edge, capital efficient content creation opportunities," Burns stated. He then claimed, "Several of our filmmakers are already excited about its potential applications to their pre-production and post-production process." There's also the small matter that he expects the company will save "millions and millions of dollars" through this agreement. Whether that money will come out of creatives' paychecks is something we can only speculate about now, but it wouldn't be... Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2024-09-18 15:10:46 UTC ]
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I started querying agents for my memoir, Negative Space, in 2012, after two years of writing and revising. I got a few rounds of passes, including several friendly rejections in which agents said they just didn’t “know how to sell” my book. I heard this refrain enough times that I started... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-03-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Bring great-great-great grandma back to life using deep learning. If you’ve ever seen a Harry Potter movie and were enchanted by those movie photos seen in the world’s newspapers and on mantles, you’re going to want to give a new tool called Deep Nostalgia from genealogy site MyHeritage a... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2021-03-05 06:24:58 UTC ]
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Ecco goes big on a debut novel, Kal Penn sells a memoir to Gallery, Brittney Cooper sells seven for seven figures to Scholastic, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Endeavour has signed Love & Care by journalist Shaun Deeney, “a thought-provoking and often funny” account of a man becoming a carer for his mother just as he is hoping to find love one last time, post-divorce. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 14:57:29 UTC ]
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Welbeck has signed a “significant” six-figure deal for “profoundly moving” new novel Little Wing and one other book by Freya North. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 01:44:35 UTC ]
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Lois Lowry sells a new middle grade novel to HMH, Heather Morris sells the third installment of her 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' trilogy to St. Martin’s, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Octopus imprint Monoray has acquired “masterpiece of oral history” 3 Days in June, the minute-by-minute retelling of the battle of Mount Longdon in the Falklands War by former Paratrooper James O’Connell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 08:07:47 UTC ]
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The Borough Press has landed All My Mothers by Costa shortlistee Joanna Glen in a “significant” five-figure deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 01:00:45 UTC ]
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News Corp will receive ‘significant payments’ to feature news outlets in Google’s News ShowcaseGoogle and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have signed a multi-year partnership that will lead to the search engine paying for journalism from news sites around the world, including the Wall Street Journal,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-17 17:11:57 UTC ]
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Orion Fiction has pre-empted Winnie M Li's new novel Complicit, exploring questions raised by the #MeToo movement and the dark side of Hollywood, for a six-figure sum within 48 hours of receiving the manuscript. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-17 00:06:32 UTC ]
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HarperNorth has signed a “bold and hopeful” book on political and social divisions by Youth Endowment Fund executive director Jon Yates. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 13:48:05 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus' Aries imprint has signed a two-book deal with American author Alex Finlay, including a book following a family made infamous after the airing of a true crime documentary. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-12 14:50:51 UTC ]
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Ken Follett sells a contemporary thriller to Viking, Knopf buys a meditation on grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Allen Lane has signed an "all-encompassing" account of the Covid-19 crisis from Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 21:21:35 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has signed the debut short story collection by Danielle Pender, founder of women's magazine Riposte. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 08:35:23 UTC ]
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Pan Mac's Tor imprint has snapped up a debut novel described as a gothic masterpiece from Hiron Ennes in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 06:05:56 UTC ]
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In The Desolations of Devil's Acre, Ransom Riggs welcomes readers one final time to a spine-tingling, hair-raising, era-spanning adventure with Miss Peregrine's peculiar children on the series' tenth anniversary. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Chatto & Windus has signed Letters to Camondo, an “extraordinary” book penned by Edmund de Waal during the first lockdown that tells the story of the Jewish Camondo family in Paris. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-07 20:38:23 UTC ]
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Egmont Books has signed a publishing partnership with Beano Studios and will release three titles this year to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Dennis the Menace. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-05 04:34:23 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Knights Of will publish Mayhem Mission and two further books in debut middle-grade series My Laugh-Out-Loud Life by Burhana Islam. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-03 09:43:58 UTC ]
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