Spec Script Deal: “The Tip” TriStar Pictures acquires thriller spec script “The Tip” written by Cooper McMains. Via Deadline:
Daily Dialogue — October 19, 2019 Carla Jean Moss: You don’t have to do this. Anton Chigurh: [smiles] People always say the same thing. Carla Jean Moss: What do they say…
Reader Question: Is it okay to take more time than normal to set up the story in Act One? What if that script you’re writing insists on having a 30+ page first act?
Spec Script Deal: “The Traveler” MGM acquires science fiction spec script “The Traveler” written by Austin Everett. Via Deadline:
Writing and the Creative Life: Here’s to Us Night Owls! “The conventional wisdom is that morning people are high achievers, go-getters, while late risers are lazy. But what if going to bed in the…
The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs [Part 3] “In tracking the spec script market over the last three decades, one thing is clear: It’s a cyclical business. However, with the emergence…
Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work: What to Do After You Finish Your First Draft It may seem like a really dumb idea, but it’s a crucial step in rewrite process.
Great Scene: “Wonder Woman” Diana single-handedly takes on the German Army in the breathtaking No Man’s Land scene from the movie Wonder Woman.
Reader Question: Is it useful to read a bad script to see what not to do? Can we learn something from slogging through bad screenplays?
Screenwriting 101: Grace Sherman “Usually, with the first draft I know what I have to come back to, and what’s not sounding quite right and just needs to be cleaned up, but…
Test your story concept If your goal is to traffic in mainstream, commercial movies, I cannot overstate the importance of your spec script’s story concept. As I…
Writing Dialogue There are many intangibles about the craft of screenwriting. Much of that derives from the fact that story itself is organic. Stories —…
Daily Dialogue — October 14, 2019 “You think water moves fast? You should see ice. It moves like it has a mind. Like it knows it killed the world once and got a taste for…
The Theology of Cinema: Faith “Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is on-again-off-again rather than…
Movie Story Type: Frustration Comedy With movies, there are Genres. Cross Genres. Sub-Genres. Also Story Types. One of them: Frustration Comedy.
Interview (Video): Bong Joon-ho Several videos featuring the writer-director of such movies as Snowpiercer, Okja, and the upcoming Parasite.
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