Story Type: Chick Flick “Slang term for a film mainly dealing with love and romance designed to appeal to a female target audience.”
Great Scene: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Facing cancer, Willoughby decides to take fate into his own hands.
Q&A: Bob DeRosa The screenwriter talks about his writing career and his latest projects: writing scripts for fictional podcasts.
Story Type: Chase There are genres (e.g., Action, Comedy, Drama). Cross genres (e.g., Action-Thriller, Comedy-Science Fiction). Sub-genres (e.g., Romantic…
Screenwriting 101: Laura Kosann “I really draw inspiration from everywhere. Observation. Photography. All different mediums of art. Books. Articles. Music is really big…
Page One: “tick, tick… BOOM!” (2021) Screenplay by Steven Levenson, based on the musical by Jonathan Larson
Yes, Steven, as suggested in the OP, there are all sorts of arcs / non-arcs. But also as noted in the OP, the arc where a Protagonist begins in a state of Disunity and moves toward a state of Unity is the most common…
Eric, I talk specifically about this in my book. But the reality is in most movies, the Protagonist does go through a psychological transformation. The Unity Arc is THE most common…
Spec Script Deal: “Honey Trapped” StudioCanal and The Picture Company acquire action spec script “Honey Trapped” written by April Wolfe. Via Deadline:
Story Type: Buddy Picture In Hollywood movie circles, there are genres like Horror or Science Fiction, cross genres like Action-Thriller or Drama-Comedy, and…
On Writing “Remember that scene in Steven Spielberg’s film E.T. where E.T. assembles a transmitting device from the junk he pulls out of his garage…
Sundays with Sidney Lumet’s “Making Movies” A series featuring reflections on filmmaking by one of the truly great movie directors.
Dialogue-Writing Workshop My one-week online workshop focusing on writing dialogue begins November 21.
Update: 2022–2023 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 1 New Script, 8 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Character Type: Healer “Educated and intelligent, combined with their calling to make people well, the Healer is generally a character others put their trust in…
Script To Screen: “Boyhood” The beautiful denouement of the 2014 movie Boyhood, written and directed by Richard Linklater.
