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Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 6: Takeaways

Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.

Saturday Hot Links

Time for the 327th installment of Saturday Hot Links, your week’s essential reading about movies, TV, streaming, Hollywood, and other…

30 Days of Screenplays — Day 3: “American Beauty”

Read 30 movie scripts in 30 days.

Daily Dialogue — February 3, 2018

Cole Sear: I want to tell you my secret now. Malcolm Crowe: Okay. Cole Sear: I see dead people. Malcolm Crowe: In your dreams?

2018 London Screenwriters’ Festival

I’m pleased to announce I’ll be returning to the LSF in September.

Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 5: Dialogue

Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.

30 Days of Screenplays — Day 2: “Witness”

Read 30 movie scripts in 30 days.

Writing and the Creative Life: Do It Because You Love It

Back in 2012, a longtime reader of the blog forwarded me some numbers in a post I titled: Facing the Odds. I included his observations in…

Daily Dialogue — February 2, 2018

Dale Doback: Hey. Are you awake? Brennan Huff: Yeah. Dale Doback: I can’t believe we actually have to move out of this house. Brennan Huff…

Caliann, interesting, isn’t it, that the script at 131 pages is only 105 minutes (actually probably…

1–6: Opening which establishes Miguel, his family history, his current family, and… “NO MUSIC!”

2018 Zero Draft Thirty March Challenge!

31 days. Fade In. Fade Out. Write an entire zero draft.

Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 4: Themes

Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.

Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 4: Themes

Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.

30 Days of Screenplays — Day 1: “The Sixth Sense”

Read 30 movie scripts in 30 days.

The Business of Screenwriting: Everyone is here because of us

It is late spring 1988. I am in San Diego where K-9 is being shot. It’s my first day on a movie set. Ever. The scene the crew is shooting…

Daily Dialogue — February 1, 2018

“You’re playing a dangerous game here. If you’re trying to blackmail me… it’s not going to work.”

Reader Question: What to do when a manager responds, “I liked the writing but…”

Get ready for some cold, harsh truth about Hollywood passes.

Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 3: Characters

Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.

Dialogue-Writing Exercises [2018]

Here are prompts for the 4th annual GITS Dialogue-Writing Challenge. Use these to improve your dialogue writing chops.

Script To Screen: “The Deer Hunter”

The end scene in the 1978 movie The Deer Hunter.

Daily Dialogue —January 31, 2018

“People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than…

The script to Coco is a master class in how one can write a story with a classic Hero’s Journey…

We will get more into this in the Plot and Theme posts, but Coco is Pixar hitting on all creative cylinders, great to see after a few…

The Definitive Spec Script Deals List [1991–2017]

Details on over 2,000 reported spec script deals over the last quarter century.

Script Analysis: “Coco” — Part 2: Plot

Read the script for the hit Pixar movie and analyze it all this week.