Stuart Blumberg sells untitled comedy pitch to New Line and Bluegrass Pictures. Martha Bolton and Bob Farnsworth writing the proposed sequel “It’s A Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story” for Star Partners International. Adam Chanzit sells action adventure pitch “Isle of Immortality” to Universal Pictures International Productions. Jon

DP/30 interview with All Is Lost writer-director J.C. Chandor and producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb: Comment Archive

Nadia Gates: I don’t like you. I certainly do not love you. Do we have to have sex? David Bedford: Oh yes… Nadia Gates: Okay but no kissing. — Blind Date (1987), written by Dale Launer The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is First Date, suggested by igetsbuckets. Trivia:

After a week’s worth of Daily Dialogue posts featuring the theme of First Date (thanks to igetsbuckets), next week’s theme is Forgiveness, suggested by churnage. “When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines on you.” The usual drill: * Copy/paste dialogue from IMDB

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Final Destination 5) and now writer-director (Hours) has been a longtime friend of the blog and fellow Twitter denizen (@HIGHzurrer). You may remember the interview I did with him earlier this year (Eric also made the 2012 Black List

Time for the 113th installment of Saturday Hot Links! Today: The We Remember JFK Edition. Grantland: Death of a Screenwriting Guru (Syd Field) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 9 superhero movies that (unfortunately) did not get made. Hemingway’s secret to maintaining productive momentum. Why have so many recent YA adaptations

Nonfics interview with Philomena co-writer (along with Jeff Pope from a book by Martin Sixsmith) and co-star Steve Coogan: Nonfics: Let’s start with your work on adapting the material. I know you first became interested in the story through a newspaper article, and then you read Martin’

Harry: Listen, full disclosure here Linda… I’m not wearing a wedding ring but I am married. Took the ring off, what, eighteen months ago when we agreed to separate. Agreed to disagree. That’s about the only thing we ever agreed on. Linda: Thanks for telling me. I really

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Final Destination 5) and now writer-director (Hours) has been a longtime friend of the blog and fellow Twitter denizen (@HIGHzurrer). You may remember the interview I did with him earlier this year (Eric also made the 2012 Black List

Aristotle described a story as having three parts: “A whole [story] is that which has beginning, middle, and end. A beginning is that which is not itself necessarily after anything else, and which has naturally something else after it; an end is that which is naturally after something itself, either

Screenplay by Chris Parker, book by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent A small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. IMDB Release Date: 16 April 2014 (USA)  Comment Archive

INT. “THE SPANISH ROSE” RESTAURANT — NIGHT Joe and Dede are sitting at a table, steaming plates of food before them. They are drinking red wine. Joe is caught up in a big idea. Dede is mesmerized. JOE: I mean, who am I? That’s the real question, isn’t it?

Question via Twitter from @EdaUtkuWrites: What if you’re done with beginning? This Tweet was in reference to the series I ran last week: “If you are a beginning screenwriter…” Part 1: How I write a screenplay Part 2: 1, 2, 7, 14: A simple formula to be a more

Gulfstream Pictures acquires comedy spec script “It’s On” written by Scott Rothman. From Deadline: Rothman’s a hot commodity right now after his Draft Day co-written with Rajiv Joseph topped the 2012 Black List. It’s now set for a May 2014 release by Summit/Oddlot co-starring

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, Final Destination 5) and now writer-director (Hours) has been a longtime friend of the blog and fellow Twitter denizen (@HIGHzurrer). You may remember the interview I did with him earlier this year (Eric also made the 2012 Black List

This just went live in the LA Times today, a first-person essay by screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer) about their involvement with the movie The Spectacular Now, directed by James Ponsoldt: We wrote “(500) Days of Summer” because we loved the romantic comedy

Here’s another screenwriting mantra: “Enter the scene as late into the action as possible, and leave the scene as soon as you can.” If you don’t believe me, how about the dean of contemporary screenwriters William Goldman: “You always attack a movie scene as late as you possibly

Written by Sergei Snezhkin, Ilya Tilkin A story centered on the battle of Stalingrad during WWII. IMDB Comment Archive

MIA: Yummy! VINCENT: Can I have a sip of that? I’d like to know what a five-dollar shake tastes like. MIA: Be my guest. You can use my straw, I don’t have kooties. VINCENT: Yeah, but maybe I do. MIA: Kooties I can handle. VINCENT: Goddamn! That’