Sex in Cinema Reflections on a Playboy magazine article by the Black List’s Director of Community on what’s happening to sex on the silver screen.
Update: 2019 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 2 New Scripts, 35 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs [Part 12] “So sometimes a script gets slipped to Person A who gives it to Person B who is married to Person C who works at Studio D. And you can be…
Daily Dialogue — December 19, 2019 Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the…
Great Scene: “Saving Private Ryan” Captain Miller finally reveals what his job is back home in a scene which is considerably different than an early draft of the script.
Spec Script Deal: Untitled Warden Horror Comedy Universal Pictures acquires untitled Warden horror comedy spec script written by Jimmy Warden. Via Deadline:
2019 Black List Word Cloud Logline Challenge! Check out this word cloud from the 2019 Black List loglines, then write your OWN logline from those words to win some great prizes!
Script To Screen: “Field of Dreams” Ray meets his father… and they have a game of catch in the final scene from this 1989 movie, screenplay by Phil Alden Robinson, novel by…
Screenwriting 101: Wenonah Wilms “For me, it’s character first. I have a person in my head and I just go through the basics like, ‘What are their flaws. What are their…
Daily Dialogue — December 17, 2019 “You better get some help! You’re becoming Ralph Kramden’s evil twin!”
2019 Black List: Final All 66 scripts listed in order of votes received including loglines, plus a link where you can download the official list.
On Writing “I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.”
Daily Dialogue — December 16, 2019 Forrest: [handing Jenny his medal] I want you to have this. Jenny: Forrest, I can’t keep this. Forrest: I got it just by doing what you…
On Writing “I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it.”
The Theology of Cinema: Evil “The question of theodicy provides writers a starting point for a conversation about our stories: The innate nature of evil as embodied in…
Writing Goals: 2020 [Parts 1–10] 10 part series for writers to consider what we did in 2019 and will do in 2020.
Update: 2019 Award Season Screenplay Downloads — 4 New Scripts, 33 Total It’s that time of year again when studios and production companies make available PDFs of movie scripts for award season.
Screenwriting Advice From The Past: The Final Close-Up [Part 2] “If any considerable action takes place after the climax in the ‘big scene,’ you will have ruined your photoplay with one of these deadly…
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