A photo recently did the rounds on the online screenwriting community. It depicted piles of screenplays stacked up to the ceiling, dumped in the corner of some bland Hollywood Studio...
For most families, birthdays are an occasion for joy and celebration, not corporate backstabbery and feuding in front of billionaires. But then, the Roys are not your average family. After Waystar’s inner circle decamped to...
What if you get a non-writing job in the industry, and then thrive in that job... how do you break in to the entry level in TV writing? Find out this week, as host Gray Jones interviews Script Anatomy instructor...
When Stephen Karam was adapting his Tony award-winning play The Humans, he fought the urge to include more technical directional information in the screenplay. Like 1917 co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns recently told...
Many TV writers spend an inordinate amount of time crafting the perfect pilot episode. Although your TV pilot is essential to introduce the entire television series, some writers don’t always spend a...
David Gulpili, an actor who who lit up the screen in his 1971 debut film “Walkabout” and recently starred in a biographical documentary about his remarkable life, has died. Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung...
ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! live show will return tomorrow night after five nights off air following storm disruption, ITV has said. A spokesman said the “brand new...
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Rome-based 102 Distribution is placing two of its key upcoming catalog titles on the open market at this year’s Ventana Sur market and festival: Argentine Soccer doc “Xeneizes – Boca: the...
VARIETY
Chiledoc has dropped the trailer for “Travesti Odyssey,” which premiered in the Luminous section of documentary festival IDFA. Nicolás Videla’s film is a celebration of the art and the actors of Cabaret...
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BBC Studios Drama Productions has set a development partnership with Nigerian television pioneer Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu, founder and CEO of global entertainment network EbonyLife Media. The partnership...
VARIETY
Already selected as this year’s Spanish Best International Feature Film submission for the Oscars, Fernando León de Aranoa’s dark workplace comedy “The Good Boss,” starring Javier Bardem, has set a new...
DEADLINE
Around the World in 80 Days, the upcoming series adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel starring David Tennant, will be returning for a second season. Producers Slim Film + Television and Federation Entertainment...
DEADLINE
ITV’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! live show will return tomorrow night after five nights off air following storm disruption, ITV has said. A spokesman said the “brand new...
DEADLINE
Last Tango In Paris is getting its own The Offer-style making of drama series. The tumultuous events surrounding the making of the 1972 erotic drama, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and...
DEADLINE
The University of Southern California has landed one of the biggest fish in college football, naming Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley to take over its faltering football program. USC has been looking for a new coach...
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“Project With A Unique Point Of View” Andrew Wilson Manager/Producer At Wonder Street Talks Shop:Andrew Wilson whose company was behind the Golden-Globe winning The Mauritanian starring Jodie...
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In the summer of 1932, Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde played for an audience from nine countries on the terrace of the Excelsior Palace Hotel in Venice. The occasion: The first screening...
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“Be A Little Weird To Stand Out” Says Mitchell Bendersky Of Gramercy Park Entertainment:Gramercy Park Entertainment is a Los Angeles based management company striving for creative fulfillment for its...
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This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Quentin Tarantino:In the mid-1980s, a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, California blended in with the traffic on North Sepulveda Blvd. It was called Video...
ISA ARTICLES
I am a flashback apologist. As readers of one of my previous Creative Screenwriting columns know, I believe it is narrow-minded for screenwriters to reject flashbacks out of hand as a storytelling...
ISA ARTICLES
Christopher Booker has made the claim that there are only seven basic stories that get told over and over again in different ways – overcoming the monster, rags to riches, the quest, voyage and...
ISA ARTICLES
Writer-Director Theresa Bennett Discusses Character, Limited Resources & ‘Social Animals’:Making films is a curious balance of writing an entertaining screenplay and balancing it with whatever resources are...
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Subtext – n. The underlying personality of a dramatic character as implied or indicated by a script or text. An inner world. A place glimpsed peripherally. Overtones.In screenwriting, subtext is implicit...
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Dave Chappelle is asking for donations to his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, to determine whether or not one of its theaters will be renamed in his honor. Shortly before his latest comedy...
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The Ghostbusters have returned. “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is a direct continuation of the original “Ghostbusters” (1984) and “Ghostbusters II” (1989). Almost everything else that has been related to...
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MGM/United Artists’ platform release strategy with Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” struck gold this weekend, earning $335,000 from just four screens. Amidst a turbulent,...
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“The Beatles: Get Back” director Peter Jackson’s gargantuan feat of compiling 60 hours of never-before-seen footage of the Fab Four’s “Let It Be” recording sessions — as...
MOVIEMAKER
House of Gucci went through several writers before the project found one who could do justice to the surreally messy story of the feuding Guccis. Married producers Ridley Scott and Giannina Facio finally found the...
MOVIEMAKER
When Stephen Karam was adapting his Tony award-winning play The Humans, he fought the urge to include more technical directional information in the screenplay. Like 1917 co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns recently told...
MOVIEMAKER
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles and WarnerMedia OneFifty have announced the winners of a new artist grant program called NewNarratives. Designed to support and develop up-and-coming storytellers from around the world,...
MOVIEMAKER
Paul Thomas Anderson gets candid about working in television and ponders the ideal runtime; Writer-director-star Cooper Raiff follows up the award-winning Shithouse with Cha Cha Real Smooth; A look at what else...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
As someone who evaluates hundreds of scripts every year for screenwriters and a major screenwriting contest, Script contributor Staton Rabin can see how that “grab your readers quickly” advice is getting...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
In the grand spirit of NaNoWriMo, what better way to close out the month at Script with an intimate conversation with Gary Goldstein, seasoned screenwriter turned author. Gary shares his writing journey from a...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
'The Humans' writer-director Stephen Karam speaks with Script contributor Sonya Alexander about adapting his new film from a play, writing characters and themes, and writing dialogue for both film and plays.'The...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
'Yellowjackets' Creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson speak with Script's Editor Sadie Dean about their creative collaboration and partnership, scripting music into their work, and putting together their writer's...
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