Go Into The Story

Tyler: You broke your promise. Narrator: Jesus, Tyler! Tyler: You fuckin’ talked to her about me. Narrator: Tyler, what the fuck is going on here? Tyler: I ask you for one thing, one simple thing. Narrator: Why do people think that I’m you? Answer me! Tyler: Sit. Narrator: Now

Some notable posts from this week: 30 Female Screenwriters to Inspire You A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 22 A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 23 A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 24 A Story Idea Each Day for a Month

Leave it to Shaula Evans to find this little gem. Even if you don’t know French, you’ll get it: What other examples of movies vs. life can you think of? Comment Archive

Arash Amel writing untitled Marie Colvin drama for Thunder Road Pictures. Piers Ashworth adapting YA novel “Graceling” for Reliance Entertainment. Ryan Condal writing untitled Derek Boogaard sports biopic for Focus Features. Christopher Denham writing untitled science fiction thriller for Blumhouse Productions and Chris Morgan Productions. Katie Dippold writing “The Heat

From the Austin Film Festival, twenty minutes with filmmakers Ron Howard and Steven Zaillian: http://dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf HT to Shaula Evans for the link. Comment Archive

Sally: Oh…Oh god…Ooo Oh God…Oh…Oh…Oh…Oh God…Oh yeah right there Oh! Oh…Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes…Oh…Oh…Yes Yes Yes….Oh…Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes…Oh…Oh… Oh… Oh God Oh… Oh… Huh… Sally finishes, looks at Harry and

We’ve been going through a week’s worth of posts focusing on this theme: Making a scene, suggested by Trent Carroll. Next week’s theme: I’m not who you think I am, suggested by Mark Twain: We are talking major revelation, one character removing their ‘mask’ to unveil

Nikole Beckwith’s original screenplay, the gripping drama “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” won a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship and a spot on the 2012 Black List. Nikole was kind enough to agree to an interview and we had a probing conversation about her background, her award-winning screenplay, and her unique insight into

Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links! Today: The Incredibly Cute Otter Video Edition! Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction Chevrolet which was stolen 17 years ago? It’s been recovered. Iconic country singer George Jones dies at the age of 81. Venezuela’s president orders the arrest of an American

An extensive interview in Playboy with screenwriter, director and producer J.J. Abrams: PLAYBOY: Let’s begin with Star Trek. How the hell can this franchise still go where no man has gone before? ABRAMS: Well, I haven’t seen every episode of every version of every Star Trek series,

“Elaine! Elaine!” — The Graduate, (1967), screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, novel by Charles Webb The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is making a scene, suggested by Trent Carroll. Trivia: Although Calder Willingham and Buck Henry share screen writing credit, Buck Henry wrote the shooting version of the

Some thoughts from Tom Benedek (@TomBenedek) about an upcoming Screenwriting Master Class workshop: I decided I wanted to write a script that I could shoot myself DIY — a very low budget piece. An idea clicked in my head. Basically, one location. Except for the sequence in India which may have

Nikole Beckwith’s original screenplay, the gripping drama “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” won a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship and a spot on the 2012 Black List. Nikole was kind enough to agree to an interview and we had a probing conversation about her background, her award-winning screenplay, and her unique insight into

On Wednesday, April 10th at 7PM Pacific, we had the 3rd GITS Twitter Conversation with industry insiders whose jobs involve reading scripts: Amanda Pendolino [@amandapendo], Nate Winslow [@nate_winslow], and The Bitter Script Reader [@BittrScrptReadr]. I will be posting an edited transcript of the conversation every day this week. AP

Screenplay by Conor Allyn, Rob Allyn A Muslim detective teams with an American posing as a graduate student to find the man behind a series of deadly terrorist bombings in Indonesia. IMDB site Release Date: 18 April 2013 (Indonesia)  Comment Archive

This is the fourth year in a row I’ve run this series in April. Today’s story idea: Two enemies discover a ‘higher call’ in battle: The pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-

This month’s theme: Addiction. Today’s guest post by Jason Cuthbert features Brandon from the 2011 movie Shame, written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan. Steve McQueen, not the 1960’s movie star speed demon from Bullitt, but the refreshingly provocative British director and co-screenwriter of Hunger from

Arthur Kirkland: That man is guilty! That man, there, that man is a slime! he is a slime! If he’s allowed to go free, then something really wrong is goin’ on here! Judge Rayford: Mr. Kirkland you are out of order! Arthur Kirkland: You’re out of order! You’

I’ll be honest. I have been so busy of late — and it looks to continue at least through the summer — I was thinking about scrapping The Quest Initiative for 2013. Then something happened this week: The very first writer I worked with in the prototype of The Quest landed

Amanda Pendolino had an interesting blog post last week: According to a recent study from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, of the 250 highest-grossing films last year, only 14 percent were written by women, while 38 percent of the films employed one or

Nikole Beckwith’s original screenplay, the gripping drama “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” won a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship and a spot on the 2012 Black List. Nikole was kind enough to agree to an interview and we had a probing conversation about her background, her award-winning screenplay, and her unique insight into