Script To Screen: “Jacob’s Ladder” A truly creepy scene from the 1990 movie Jacob’s Ladder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin.
Page One: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (2023) Written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller & Dave Callaham
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 1 New Script, 26 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Screenwriting 101: Billy Wilder “When I started in America I couldn’t speak any English, so I did need a collaborator. I was lucky to find some very good ones and I found…
Page One: “The Miracle Club” (2023) Screenplay by Jimmy Smallhorne & Timothy Prager & Joshua D. Maurer, story by Jimmy Smallhorne
A Character-Driven Approach to Screenwriting Beginning in January, I will be teaching a series of one-week online classes which will immerse you in a unique storytelling methodology…
On Writing “Don’t overcrowd the narrative. Characters should be individualized, but functional — like figures in a painting. Think of Hieronymus…
Writing Tip: Screenplays Are Stories, Not Formulas “If you go in with formula, you come out with formula.”
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 25 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Page One: “A Haunting in Venice” (2023) Screenplay by Michael Green, based upon the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie
“Screenplays don’t have to read like an instruction manual for a refrigerator.” A couple of Chris Miller tweets reminded me of a William Goldman quote … and a solid piece of screenwriting advice.
Spec Script Deal: “Undying” Netflix acquires thriller spec script “Undying” written by Ben Ketai. Via Deadline:
Page One: “Freud’s Last Session” (2023) Screenplay by Matt Brown and Mark St. Germain, based on the play by Mark St. Germain
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 23 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Spec Script Deal: “Level Up” The Hideaway Entertainment acquires science fiction action comedy spec script “Level Up” written by Matthew Altman and David Matalon. Via…
Hollywood Tales In 1956, director John Ford and John Wayne went to their regular spot — the Monument Valley — to make The Searchers. Location shooting…
Page One: “BlackBerry” (2023) Screenplay by Matt Johnson & Matthew Miller, based on the book “Losing the Signal” by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff
2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 21 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: “Jaws” It’s the movie that forever changed the business, the first true blockbuster of the modern era: Jaws (1975), screenplay by Peter Benchley…
Writing Tip: The difference between Act One midpoint and Act One end “Something happens. An event that precipitates a change in the Protagonist’s life circumstances.”
