When I decided to make my latest film, The Seen (2016), I took a series of unusual approaches. The first…
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Now is the perfect time to achieve your creative goals, like writing the screenplay for that thriller in your head…
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The act of writing is often seen as a mere hobby or, when pursued as a professional career, as a…
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All rise: That distinctive (and burning) chunk of flesh was not Xander Cage. Owing in part to Vin Diesel’s busy schedule,…
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I.A.L. Diamond was Billy Wilder’s second great co-writer. After Charles Brackett, with whom Wilder had co-written The Lost Weekend and…
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To learn how to become a screenwriter, you need to do more than read screenwriting books. You need to do more…
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In retrospect, the film gods’ late deliverance of Martin Scorsese’s passion project might have been the resulting film’s ultimate blessing.…
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Don’t underestimate the commitment it will take to realize your story and write a book. Boil your project down to…
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Stage to Screen: Decisions, Decisions when Adapting Stage and screen are both visual medium with different setups and dimensions. Theater…
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Fences is a melody teetering on the edge of becoming off-beat until you become swept up—enchanted—in its turbulent dissonance. After squatting in decades-long…
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