Inside the AI startup refining Hollywood — one f-bomb at a time

Inside the AI startup refining Hollywood — one f-bomb at a time


Hollywood is infamous for celebrity excess, but Tinseltown strictly controls one scandalous indulgence: swearing. Director Scott Mann encountered these constraints after shooting the thriller Fall. Movie giant Lionsgate — best-known for the John Wick, Saw, and Hunger Games franchises — wanted to release the film in the US. But the studio had big problems. Thirty-six of them, to be precise.  “They said it had too many f*cks,” Mann tells TNW on a video call from LA.  All those f-bombs were pushing Fall towards an R rating, which would slash the potential audience. To secure the PG-13 needed to extend the…

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