At some point early in the creation of their screenplays, students I work with need to share their loglines with their fellow screenwriters, and very often the air of unease about this process is palpable. Not so much because these...
Spoiler alert! If you have not seen or intend to see Episode 4 of “The White Lotus” titled “Recentering,” proceed with caution. If you’ve been keeping up with “The White Lotus,” then you’ve probably...
In part two of this three-part series, TV writer/screenwriter Aadip Desai digs into the concept of a writer’s voice and provides tools on how to develop your voice and tap into what makes your voice unique.In...
Ever wanted to know more about the man who dreamed up the DMC DeLorean, the super-1980s sports car that Marty McFly and Doc Brown use for a time machine in Back to the Future? Netflix’s new docuseries Myth...
“No Boobs, Butts, Or Blood” - Isabella Price’s Route to Becoming A Horror Video Games Queen:Isabella Price grew up in a Southern Baptist household, so anything containing boobs, butts, or blood...
As an actor, Matt Damon has always had two sides: the light and the dark, the noble and the furtive, the boyishly winning and the ominously coldhearted. Early in his career, when he was that cute kid with the shiny...
John Oliver continued to take shots at Biden’s failed promises on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight. Though the United States has moved most of their troops out of Afghanistan well ahead of the...
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Saginaw Grant, the Native American actor known for his performance as Chief Big Bear in “The Lone Ranger” and for featured roles in “Breaking Bad” and other popular series and films, died Wednesday in...
VARIETY
MTV turns 40 on Sunday, and it hardly looks its age. Well, that’s because it hardly looks like, well, anything anymore. At least that’s the depressing state of the linear MTV channel, which in recent years...
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During the closing credits of “The Last Mercenary,” we see a montage of Jean-Claude Van Damme in the various getups he wore during the movie (a fuzzy beard; a mustache and Yankees cap; a blond wig; a...
VARIETY
Anna Gross, a film executive and producer who worked on films such as “The NeverEnding Story” and “Tootsie,” died of cancer on July 23. She was 68. Gross’ cousin, Mikie Heilbrun,...
DEADLINE
Seth MacFarlane once again took extreme displeasure in comments made by a host of Fox News, another episode in a long saga between the Family Guy creator and Fox News corporate sibling Fox Entertainment, which airs...
DEADLINE
John Oliver continued to take shots at Biden’s failed promises on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight. Though the United States has moved most of their troops out of Afghanistan well ahead of the...
DEADLINE
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Studios’ runaway-slave thriller Emancipation starring Will Smith is suspending filming following a small number of positive Covid tests among the hundreds of crew working on the movie in...
DEADLINE
What If…? might sound like another Marvel animated series; a plethora produced since the 1960s, however, the latest iteration stands apart from the rest for one big reason: It’s the last performance...
CS MAGAZINE
Finally. After weeks, months, or maybe even years, your latest screenplay is complete. Keeping to a professional mindset, you commit to ordering feedback. You pay. And you wait. Soon enough, a reader presents their...
CS MAGAZINE
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Heist:Unbeknownst to them, a silent alarm has already been triggered by a quick thinking teller, there’s an off duty police officer in the queue waiting for a...
CS MAGAZINE
Everyone loves a good villain who gives the hero a run for their money. A dastardly, evil person who wreaks havoc on the world for the sake of their worldview and mission. Generally speaking, villains reveal...
CS MAGAZINE
Descriptions in your screenplay are a lot like vitamins; not enough and your screenplay becomes anemic and difficult to visualize and follow. Too much, and it becomes obese and lethargic.What is description anyway?...
ISA ARTICLES
We interviewed Diane about the essentials of a first act, getting to know what your story is really about, and whether or not Hollywood will ever return to the golden age of spec scripts.Were you always interested...
ISA ARTICLES
If you’re a savvy writer, you know it’s a good idea to get feedback from multiple readers and make comparisons between the sets of development notes. As a script editor and script reader myself,...
ISA ARTICLES
On the face of it, musicians and writers do not have much in common. Musicians perform in public, writers work alone in private. Music is fleeting and intangible, writing endures forever. Musicians are often...
ISA ARTICLES
Imagine a story about a soldier, wounded by past battles, who is sent to a hostile, unfamiliar place filled with danger and overwhelming obstacles. He’s a stranger in a strange land – the geography and...
THEWRAP
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked Saturday night that it would be “hard not to hit” Nancy Pelosi with the Speaker of the House’s gavel if Republicans take control of the House of...
THEWRAP
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, John Oliver has been broadcasting his weekly “Last Week Tonight” from home in a white-backgrounded “blank void” that looks very different from...
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YouTube has suspended Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News Australia for one week for violating its policies concerning COVID-19 misinformation. The video hosting site said in a statement Sunday that the suspension was...
THEWRAP
Brian Stelter says its time for the media to seriously reflect on how it is covering the new surge in COVID-19 cases, criticizing “sensationalist headlines” surrounding vaccinated people getting...
MOVIEMAKER
Rachel Annette Helson is a director and actress in New York City. Her directorial debut feature film You’re Not Safe Here, produced by Stargazer Films, airs on Lifetime TV this Saturday at 8/7c. You’re Not Safe...
MOVIEMAKER
Watching dailies of his new drama Stillwater, Tom McCarthy kept noticing something about the performance of his lead Matt Damon: He seemed angry. McCarthy couldn’t figure out why, so the director asked Thomas...
MOVIEMAKER
Meet the JAWS camera operator who now saves sharks; Netflix requires vaccinations; Bob Odenkirk is “stable,” and a talk about people taking Kevin Smith’s He-Man much too seriously. All in...
MOVIEMAKER
Valerie Taylor has spent decades trying to protect the shark population and their natural habitat — the oceans. Now, she fears it’s too late. “What I think, or better still know, will never...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
In this double-header, Script's Editor Sadie Dean interviews screenwriter Tim Long and director Dan Mazer, the comedy masterminds behind 'The Exchange'.In this double-header, Script's Editor Sadie Dean interviews...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with a very animated guest, Tim Long. With decades of experience, Tim Long is a writer and producer of comedies such as 'The Simpsons', 'Late Show With David Letterman' and...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
Script's Editor Sadie Dean interviews Aaron Rahsaan Thomas who is a three-time NAACP Image Awards nominee, co-creator and former showrunner of CBS’ 'S.W.A.T.', and all-around genuine and knowledgeable industry...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
Who are “The Ghost Bros”? We are a multi-ethnic group of paranormal television show fans and screenwriters from various places in the US. We are a cadre of horror writing fans/screenwriting splinter-cell within...
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