Jun 02 Love3 The Story Behind the Screenplay: Part 2 – Withnail and I By Martin Keady Main The Story Behind The Screenplay is a new series by Martin Keady that examines the origins of some of the…Read More
Jun 01 Love7 The Rise of Auteur Television By Jonathan Williams Main More and more we see film becoming a marketing medium. Bigger and bigger tentpoles rising up, spawning franchises aimed at…Read More
Jun 01 Love9 Announcing the Top 25 Emerging Screenwriters of 2017 By Staff Announcements Welcome to The Script Lab's first annual list of of the top 25 emerging screenwriters of 2017! We've carefully combed the cinematic landscape…Read More
May 30 Love1 Navigating the Murky Waters of Intellectual Property By Shaun Leonard Main Intellectual property, or IP as it is commonly referred to, has come to dominate the moviemaking landscape. Or at least,…Read More
May 26 Love1 The Art of Writing Horror, Part 3: DEAREST SISTER (Christopher Larsen & Mattie Do) By Ben Larned Main While it’s a classically entertaining genre, one of cinema’s first staples, horror films also have the great potential for sociological…Read More
May 25 Love2 First Ten Pages: Sing Street (2016) By London Vayavong First Ten Pages By: London Vayavong Screenplay by: John Carney ‘We need to start a band.” It’s a phrase commonly heard in movies…Read More
May 24 Love0 Festival Spotlight: The Mammoth Lakes Film Festival By Staff Main Recently, The Script Lab got the chance to talk with the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival Director, Shira Dubrovner about this incredible…Read More
May 24 Love0 Interview with John Sayles: The Indie Film Legend Tells Us What it Means to be an Independent Filmmaker By Valerie Kalfrin Main Story is a guiding principle for writer-director John Sayles. For nearly forty years, he’s made films outside the studio system…Read More
May 23 Love0 The Zookeeper’s Wife: How to Write a True Story By Marisa Dupras Main The Zookeepers Wife is about as close to the true story as a film can get. That is to say it's…Read More
May 23 Love0 The Orwellian Future of Script Analysis: Would You Trust the Fate of Your Screenplay to AI? By Staff Main Can a character’s likability be quantified? Think about that for a second. Imagine scanning your screenplay through a piece of…Read More