I love the film Die Hard. A New York cop’s visit to reconcile with his wife in L.A. is interrupted by a terrorist attack in her company’s building. John McClane, the cop, becomes a one-man wrecking crew in order...
Netflix got the golden ticket: The streaming service has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company, and it sounds like Netflix plans on using every last bit of the author’s I.P. to deepen its stable of original programming. Read...
Reckless Creatives Podcast co-hosts Sadie Dean and Jeanne Veillette Bowerman chat it up with writer and story editor Katiedid "Did" Langrock. We don't know jack about animation, but Did schooled us on being a head...
The Eyes of Tammy Faye director Michael Showalter believes America’s longstanding fascination with televangelists and charismatic leaders has to do with the nation’s Christian roots mixed with unbridled...
Animation has been adored by audiences young and old for over a century. The format has come a long way from the days of hand-drawn cels to today’s stunning computer-generated graphics. Despite the...
MGM Motion Picture Group president Pamela Abdy and chairman Michael De Luca are to open the Zurich Summit on Saturday with a keynote conversation with CAA Media Finance co-head Roeg Sutherland. Billed as a...
Fernando León de Aranoa’s Spanish-language dark comedy The Good Boss had its world premiere last night at the San Sebastian Film Festival in front of a raucous local crowd (albeit at half-capacity due to Covid...
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The Abu Dhabi Film Commission is understandably proud that Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures filmed at the Liwa desert, the large oasis area in the Western Region of the Emirate that doubled as the...
VARIETY
ViacomCBS’ Pluto TV, the fast-growing, free, ad-supported, linear TV-style streaming service, is set to launch in Italy on Oct. 28 with 40 thematic channels spanning multiple genres. Pluto TV’s Italy...
VARIETY
Selected by Variety as a talent to track, Spain’s Jaione Camborda is developing her sophomore effort, “The Rye Horn,” a story that takes place in ‘70s Galicia. After a terrible event, midwife María is...
VARIETY
Following a dismal summer, China’s box office over this year’s three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday hit its lowest point since 2014. Chinese citizens had to work on Saturday, Sept. 18, but enjoyed a three-day...
DEADLINE
EXCLUSIVE: Starz has put in development Lagordiloca, a drama series that chronicles the rise of street journalist Priscilla Villarreal as she capitalizes on the power of livestream reporting to expose corruption,...
DEADLINE
Disney Branded Television is developing House of Secrets, an action-adventure fantasy series from Chris Columbus and his 26th Street Pictures partners, Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe. Harry Potter and Home...
DEADLINE
Netflix India’s Ray Donovan Adaptation Netflix India is lining up a local adaptation of hit U.S. series Ray Donovan. The crime-action-drama, titled Rana Naidu, will see actor Rana Daggubati sharing screen...
DEADLINE
Willie Garson, a fan favorite on Sex and the City and co-star of White Collar, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 57. His longtime manager John Carrabino confirmed Garson’s death to Deadline. Showbiz...
CS MAGAZINE
Every good story is based on strong characters which are complex, layered, motivated, and active in pursuit of an identifiable goal. They need to have enough depth and interest to sustain an audience for up to...
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Aiko Hilkinger is an award-winning, queer, screenwriter of color from Colombia. Her fantasy animated pilots have placed in numerous contests, most notably ScreenCraft, Filmmatic TV, and Fast Track Fellowship. They...
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In the remarkable expressions of humanity and all its incarnations, stories relating to the LGBTIQA communities are increasingly finding their ways onto our mainstream screens. In order for them to create a bigger...
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Andrea George Turner, Creative Screenwriting Magazine Unique Voices Grand Prize Winner Talks “The Rule Of Thirds”:Andrea George Turner realized that talent management wasn’t her calling after an...
ISA ARTICLES
Save the Cat practitioners will be familiar with the phrase “the promise of the premise.” Blake Snyder used it to describe the screenplay beat he called “Fun and Games,” in which the...
ISA ARTICLES
Since its inception over twenty years ago, the methodology of Blake Synder’s Save the Cat has been as synonymous with storytelling as Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and Syd...
ISA ARTICLES
The importance of the superhero in today’s cinema is undeniable. Marvel’s movies in particular have been praised for the way they’ve taken comic book characters most cinemagoers hadn’t heard...
ISA ARTICLES
Literary Manager John Zaozirny On How Screenwriters Can Build A Viable Screenwriting Career “Take Notes”:We spoke with John Zaozirny, a manager at Bellevue Productions about how screenwriters can...
THEWRAP
NBC has ordered the thriller “The Endgame” from executive producers Julie Plec and Justin Lin. The series stars Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathe as a criminal mastermind and the FBI agent...
THEWRAP
Mark Zuckerberg signed off on Project Amplify recently in an effort to use Facebook’s News Feed to show users positive stories about itself, according to a New York Times report published Tuesday. Some of...
THEWRAP
In a Washington Post op-ed, the actress says she hopes disclosing “her darkest secret” from her teenage years will help women who are feeling powerless Uma Thurman on Tuesday wrote an op-ed for The...
THEWRAP
The cast of “Sex and the City,” “White Collar” are more paid tribute to actor Willie Garson, who died Tuesday at age 57. Garson played Stanford Blatch, the best friend of Sarah Jessica...
MOVIEMAKER
Annie Clark, better known by her stage name, St. Vincent, wanted to make a documentary concert film about her life on the road — but she didn’t want to make just another doc about an artist from the...
MOVIEMAKER
Killian and the Comeback Kids is the story of a young mixed-race musician forced to return to his rural hometown after an expensive college degree. A chance encounter with a childhood acquaintance leads...
MOVIEMAKER
Blue Bayou has Justin Chon leaving L.A. — the city where he was born and where his previous two features, Gook and Ms. Purple take place — for New Orleans. Chon says that it was never his intention to “only...
MOVIEMAKER
We remember Norm Macdonald with some of his terrific jokes; a new (reputable) crowdfunding idea invites you to get in on the ground floor; Alanis Morissette denounces a new documentary she took part in; film...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
Screenwriter Tom MacRae talks about his new film and musical 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie', writing in historical and personal significance into the movie and adapting his stage play to a film. Plus, he shares...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
In this installment of "Ask the Coach" Jenna Avery answers a pre-submitted question about finding the right reader for your script and genre.In this installment of "Ask the Coach" Jenna Avery answers a...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
Script's Editor Sadie Dean interviews filmmakers and brothers Christian and Justin Long about the impetus for 'Lady of the Manor' story, their creative collaboration, sneaking in a Trojan horse for comedy and...
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' screenwriter Abe Sylvia speaks with Script's Editor Sadie Dean about his filmmaking journey, his personal and impassioned kinship to Tammy Faye, and what creative decisions he had to make...
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