Page One: “Creed III” (2023) Screenplay by Keenan Coogler & Zach Baylin, story by Ryan Coogler and Keenan Coogler & Zach Baylin, based on characters created by…
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 19 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Script To Screen: “Joe Versus the Volcano” A key scene toward the beginning of the 1990 movie Joe Versus the Volcano, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley.
Spec Script Deals Analysis 2022: Top Sales Continuing our week long analysis of spec script deals from 2022, today we look at the biggest payoffs (at least as reported by various…
Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch for 2023 Plus links to Variety’s annual list dating back to 2008.
Page One: “The Burial” (2023) Screenplay by Doug Wright and Maggie Betts, story by Doug Wright, based on The New Yorker article by Jonathan Harr
2022 Spec Script Deals Analysis: Agents & Managers We continue our week-long analysis of spec script deals in 2022. Today: Agents and Managers.
Writing Tip: Your characters want you to tell their story Lean into your characters. After all, it’s their story.
2022 Spec Script Sales Analysis: Buyers Yesterday, we looked at 2022 spec script deals by genre. Today, we break down the numbers per streamers, major studios, mini-majors…
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 9 New Scripts, 17 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
2022 Spec Script Deals Analysis: Genres By my count, Hollywood studios, production companies, and financiers acquired 16 spec scripts in 2022. During this week, I’ll be breaking…
Screenwriting 101: Stirling Silliphant “I *DETEST* the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I’ll tell you a…
2022 Spec Script Deal List Every year since I launched the blog in 2008, I do a week-long analysis of the recent year in terms of spec script deals. This week, we…
On Writing “To write what you know needn’t mean a fictional rehashing of your own circumstances: it sometimes means taking a single strand from your…
Writing Tip: Three Keys to Writing in a Distracting World I become fully engaged in my writing when I am fully engaged with my characters.
Interview: Gennifer Hutchison A conversation with the writer whose TV credits include Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Page One: “No Time to Die” (2021) Screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, story by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji…
Script To Screen: “The Kids Are All Right” A scene from the 2010 movie The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko, who also directed, and Stuart Blumberg.
