How to Generate and Critique Story Ideas (Part 9): Test Your Concept Here are five questions you can ask about any idea you come up with to help determine if it’s something worth pursuing as a script.
The Business of Screenwriting: You always need more than one in your gun We are seated in the reception area at the sprawling office of two TV producers. They have a new show in production for CBS and we’re…
“Effective Feedback: The Little Known Secret To Pixar’s Creative Success” Four keys to feedback which can help move a project forward.
Spec Script Deal: “Bad Dog” Lionsgate acquires comedy spec script “Bad Dog” written by Jeff Bushell. From Deadline:
How to Generate and Critique Story Ideas (Part 8): Franchise If there is one word that is almost assured of getting a Hollywood movie studio president of production all aglow, it is probably the word…
Script To Screen: “The Talented Mr. Ripley” From the 1999 movie The Talented Mr. Ripley, screenplay by Anthony Minghella, novel by Patricia Highsmith.
When I broke into the business back in the Paleolithic era (1987), the rule of thumb was 2 pages… I think a lot of this has to do with digital technology. For the last three decades, digital filmmaking allows for super easy editing. No…
Joseph Campbell word for word on The Hero’s Journey Verbatim transcript from the excellent interview series “The Power of Myth.”
Reader Question: “What about screenplay page count?” And is it okay to cheat margins and spacing to cut pages?
How to Generate and Critique Story Ideas (Part 7): Think International Over the last three decades, the share of movie revenue has flipped: It used to be 70% domestic, 30% foreign. Now it’s 30% domestic, 70%…
Screenwriting 101: Justin Rhodes “I think concept is the most important aspect of the whole process. Dialogue can be improved, set pieces can be improved…
Daily Dialogue — June 11, 2019 Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing? Benjamin: Well, I would say that I’m just drifting. Here in the pool. Mr. Braddock: Why? Benjamin…
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Eighth Grade” The entire 6 part series on the hit movie.
How to Generate and Critique Story Ideas (Part 6): Genre-Bending Bending a story’s genre offers even more opportunities to recycle concepts as there are eight different primary genres.
On Writing “I would say to young playwrights, especially, don’t worry so much about the story. There are no original stories. All the stories have…
Immerse Yourself in Cinema If you want to write movies, you need to love movies. And that love ought to manifest itself in a thorough, longstanding and passionate…
Script To Screen: “The Social Network” The final scene from the 2010 movie The Social Network, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, based on a book by Ben Mezrich.
