‘The Killer’ – David Fincher and ‘Se7en’ Writer’s New Thriller Coming to Netflix in November
Director David Fincher and writer Andrew Kevin Walker made magic together when they joined forces for Se7en back in the ’90s, and they reunite for this year’s brand new The Killer . Netflix has announced today that The Killer will premiere on November 10, 2023 . Check out some first-look footage in Netflix’s 2023 preview […]
The Whale Writer Samuel D. Hunter Reflects on His Play’s Jump to the Big Screen
As reported by Variety, writer Samuel D. Hunter first met director Darren Aronofsky to talk about the possibility of adapting his Off-Broadway play, The Whale, for the screen when the film director was in the middle of editing his 2014 biblical epic, Noah. While Noah and The Whale couldn’t be more different, Aronofsky declared, “What […]
DeepL takes aim at Grammarly with the launch of Write, to clean up your prose
Looks like this is turning out to be tech-Tuesday. On the heels of raising a big round of funding at a $1 billion valuation last week , DeepL is taking the wraps off a new language product, the first extension for a startup that made its name from its popular AI-based translation tools. Write is […]
AI21 Labs Announces The Future Of Writing, Challenging OpenAI
Tel-Aviv-based AI21 Labs launched today Wordtune Spices, a writer-augmentation tool based on generative AI. Selecting from 12 different cues, writers can generate a range of textual options to add to and enhance sentences. Spices can also suggest statistics to strengthen an argument or sharpen a detail. Human and robot writing together. getty AI21 says Spices […]
Meet the New Words Added to the Official Scrabble Dictionary
Okay, this is just for fun: The Scrabble dictionary has been updated for the first time since 2018, and it includes 500 new words — though Scrabble won’t reveal what everyone is, telling players to hunt through the new dictionary to find them all. They’ve also removed several hundred slurs and other offensive words so […]
ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Writing
How ChatGPT and other AI systems may ruin the ability to write (and think). ChatGPT and other AI-assisted writing softwares have arrived. And by all accounts, they are surprisingly good. From the perspective of writing education, this kind of software is more than a little problematic. This software may well reduce writing, communication, and thinking […]
Matt Reeves Confirms He’s Writing Script For The Batman 2
Director Matt Reeves confirms he’s writing the script for The Batman 2 in a recent interview. Though everyone expected that The Batman franchise would survive the recent DCEU cull, this news kinda confirms it. The information comes from Collider, and here is what Reeves had to say. ‘When we sat down with Reeves, we had […]
What’s the point of writing a diary? For me, it’s an expression of personal freedom
Obsessively narrating life can get in the way of living it. But my chronicling is a source of comfort ‘I know my account of events is partial.’ Under an awning at night with the rain coming down. On the top deck of a bus traveling between parties at opposite ends of London and leaning against […]
Can AI Writing Completely Replace Human Writing in Every Field?
With every passing hour, crucial developments are being made in the Computer Science field, and Artificial Intelligence is currently the main focus of technology. As AI keeps growing, our dependence on it for doing our tasks is also increasing; though it has not been fully explored, nor do we know to what extent it can […]
Writer Samuel D. Hunter digs deep to let loose his truth for ‘The Whale’
Writing “The Whale,” says Samuel D. Hunter, “felt entirely different than my previous plays. It was at once easier to write and more difficult, familiar but scarily vulnerable.” I didn’t set out to write a film. At first, I wasn’t even sure I was writing a play. Maybe it was something I needed to write […]