Go Into The Story

March is Movies You Made month at Go Into The Story where we feature the work of some independent filmmakers. Today: Annabel Lee. Production notes from writer-director-narrator Carl T. Rogers: Thank you for being such a wealth of knowledge! Your blog is one of my main sources of

George Hanson: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can’t understand what’s gone wrong with it. Billy: Man, everybody got chicken, that’s what happened. Hey, we can’t even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you

A heads-up from GITS development assistant Wendy Cohen: For you L.A. folks — the KCET Cinema Series continues its spring season TONIGHT at 7pm with a screening of the upcoming romantic comedy LE WEEK-END, featuring a Q&A with star Jeff Goldblum following the screening. For more

As many of you may know, my favorite movie is The Apartment, so it’s not surprising that my favorite filmmaker is Billy Wilder. His list of writing and directing credits is almost absurd, both in terms of sheer quantity and breadth of content. Comedies, dramas, crime thrillers, war stories,

Written by Caradog W. James Two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, which is designed to help humanity. But things go wrong when the MoD steal their breakthrough and teach it to become a robotic weapon. IMDB Release Date:

March is Movies You Made month at Go Into The Story where we feature the work of some independent filmmakers. Today: Blood of Man. Production notes from writer-director-producer-editor Ben Watts: My short film, Blood of Man, was an official selection of the Atlanta International Film Festival last

“I’ve always liked characters that because of the circumstances, have to transform themselves, and in the end, it’s inevitable that what they end up becoming is what they were meant to be. And Drive is similar in the sense that The Driver was meant to become a superhero,

CHUCK BARRIS: Hi, folks. Before we begin taping today, I’d like to introduce you to Mr. Peter Jenks of the Federal Communications Commission. Okay? PETER JENKS: I don’t know if any of you are aware of this, but it’s a federal offense to make lascivious remarks on

From Tom Benedek, my colleague and co-founder of Screenwriting Master Class: Happy Oscars, everyone. Several speeches last night were so inspiring. The show was slow but the talent, the movies they were a part of, glittered for me. 2013 was an interesting year for movies. Some say it was

“Scott, you are the only screenwriting teacher I’ve ever had.” This is what Lisa Joy shared with me when we had dinner together in L.A. last fall to celebrate the recent sale of her spec script “Reminiscence” which Legendary Pictures acquired in a deal worth a reported $1.

A 25-part series that takes a look at theological concepts as metaphors for significant philosophical and psychological dynamics writers can use in their stories. Annunciation Baptism Chosen Congregation Conversion Cross Despair Doubt Evil Faith Forgiveness Grace Guilt Hell Incarnation Kingdom of God Predestination Purgatory Redemption Revelation Righteousness Salvation Sin

Script readers are Hollywood’s threshold guardians, so it behooves writers to try to understand their mindset. Here I did a series of posts breaking down the guidelines one of the major Hollywood agencies provided for their script readers. It is instructive and informative. Part 1: Overview Part 2: General

I broke into the movie business selling a spec script. Ever since, I have been a proponent of the ‘spirit of the spec’. See what I mean with these posts below. You get an idea You act on your idea You write your story You put it out there And

Originally compiled by screenwriter Kevin Lehane, this list has evolved and grown over time. The List

A comprehensive series on the most significant of the supposed screenwriting ‘rules,’ hopefully to put things into proper perspective: Tools, not rules. Focus on your creativity, not picayune format and style issues. Write a great script. That should be your focus. Part 1: The Organic Nature of the Screenplay Part

Screenwriter (Tuck Everlasting) and TV writer-producer (Lost, Necessary Roughness, NCIS: New Orleans) Jeff Lieber tweets Showrunner Rules, an inside look at what life is like running a TV series. Links to all the tweets below. Numbers 1–10 Numbers 11–20 Numbers 21–30 Numbers 31–40 Numbers 41–

One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that