2016 Award Season Screenplay Downloads —23 Total! Christmas comes early for screenplay fans as Hollywood studios and production companies have just begun their annual ritual of making the…
Melinda, thanks for that heads-up. First, I’ve updated links to A Monster Calls and Nocturnal Animals. Loving is currently unavailable.
Spec Script Deal: “Palmer” Route One Entertainment acquires drama spec script “Palmer” written by Cheryl Guerriero. From Deadline:
The Psychological Connection Between the Protagonist and Nemesis A ‘worthy Nemesis’. Or Antagonist, if you prefer. That’s something you hear in Hollywood. Why? A more powerful adversary almost assuredly…
Daily Dialogue — November 9, 2016 Andy Stitzer: You know how when you grab a woman’s breast… it feels like… a bag of sand.
How to Write Fast and Why: Reflections on NaNoWriMo from Grant Faulkner On Friday, Rebecca and I attended a Chicago Humanities Festival event featuring a Q&A with NaNoWriMo executive director Grant Faulkner…
‘Zootopia’ and the Lesson of Universal Themes The movie Zootopia has grossed over $1 billion worldwide and it would be easy to think that its success is based entirely on the fact it’s…
Screenwriting 101: Kenneth Lonergan “I think rules are great if you’re in trouble, and if you’re not in any trouble with what you’re writing they’re absolutely useless, and…
Daily Dialogue — November 8, 2016 “These eyes cry every night for you These arms long to hold you again The hurtin’s on me, yeah But I will never be free, no, my baby, no…
The Manipulation of Time in a Screenplay Time is a mystery, especially in a screenplay. As writers we can leap through decades from one scene to the next. Or we can stretch a…
‘Westworld’ producers on Maeve’s heartbreaking tour, Elsie’s fate Entertainment Weekly interview with Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, exec producers of the HBO series ‘Westworld’, answering some questions…
A Year In The Life of An Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship Winning Team Of all the screenwriting competitions, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting is arguably the…
Daily Dialogue — November 7, 2016 “A eugoogalizer. One who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was?”
Exploring Theme in “The King’s Speech” In the Core VII: Theme online class I’m currently teaching, we’ve had some great discussions and analysis. One of the most vibrant involved…
Interview: David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Panic Room, Mission: Impossible) A Collider interview with screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds, Indiana…
Interview: Jon Spaihts, co-writer, “Doctor Strange” A Variety interview with Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Passengers) who is co-writer of the new Marvel movie Doctor Strange.
Daily Dialogue — November 6, 2016 The sky clears. The waves are still big. The fish are back. And then come the sharks, cutting through the water. Chuck can’t get up to get…
Lisa, as long as I’ve run the blog, I’ve made it part of my mission to promote screenwriters when… BTW I am in the process of working with the good folks at Medium to finish the migration of my 80+ archived subjects from the old site…
Saturday Hot Links Time for the 262nd installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…
Interview: Scott Derrickson, co-writer/director, “Doctor Strange” The Wrap interviews Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister) who co-wrote (with C. Robert Cargill and Jon Spaihts) and…
Interview: Robert Schenkkan, co-writer, “Hacksaw Ridge” A Script magazine interview with Robert Schenkkan, co-writer of the movie Hacksaw Ridge.
