Screenwriting Tip: Create a “Pitch Persona” When you pitch a TV or movie project, your ability to perform in the room is critical.
Showrunners Set Meeting With WGA Leadership “This was meant to be an information session and not meant to offer anything more than help.”
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 13 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script To Screen: “Network” One of the greatest satires in cinema history: The 1976 movie Network, written by Paddy Chayfesky.
Writing Tip: If you’re stuck in your writing… A modest suggestion on how to find inspiration on the page.
Page One: “In the Bedroom” (2001) Screenplay by Robert Festinger and Todd Field, story by Andre Dubus
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 12 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Script To Screen: “Notting Hill” A scene from the 1999 movie Notting Hill, written by Richard Curtis.
Screenwriting 101: Billy Wilder “The most important invention in Some Like It Hot was to make the fact of the two male musicians disguising themselves as women a question…
Screenwriting 101: Garson Kanin “I have no objective sense of what I do. I do it deeply and automatically, which is a result of the teaching I got from Thornton Wilder…
Deadline, along with Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, are all owned by the same entity: Penske… Deadline is a bit more complex. They really gained a foothold on the Hollywood media front covering the 2007-2008 WGA strike and, as with…
Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast Episode 19: Billy Ray in conversation with Rep. Susan Wild and Sen. Sherrod Brown.
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 11 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Writing Tip: How to Decide Which Story to Write Are you trying to figure out which of one or more stories to write next?
On Writing “Finishing a story is truly the most amazing experience in the world.… It’s like being on the most fantastic, perfect drugs. I feel like I…
2023 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 10 One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast Episode 18: Billy Ray in conversation with movie producer Jennifer Fox.
Script To Screen: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” The three escapees encounter the movie’s version of The Sirens.
Writing Tip: Why You Should Write Three Pages of Garbage Every Day “Freewriting forces you to keep moving forward, keep creating, without a thought given to quality.”
Update: WGA Negotiating Committee “We have made it clear that we will negotiate with one or more of the major studios, outside the confines of the AMPTP, to establish the…
