Oct 23 Love12 Calling All Writers: Weekly Contest Roundup – 10/23/2017 By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 Welcome back to The Script Lab’s weekly screenwriting contest roundup – our gathering of all the latest in contest news,…Read More
Oct 20 Love2 What Writers Can Learn from 2017’s Confusing Summer Box-Office By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By Britton Perelman This year’s summer selection of new movies at the theaters set a record — and not a…Read More
Oct 19 Love4 The History of Hollywood Screenwriting Competitions By Ken Miyamoto from ScreenCraft Blogs You've heard of screenwriting competitions - but how reputable are they? How can you know which contests are legitimate, and…Read More
Oct 19 Love1 From Mad Max to Blade Runner: How to Make a Long-Awaited Sequel Work By Valerie Kalfrin Main, Screenwriting 101 More of the same, yet different. That’s the hurdle facing screenwriters with sequels. Bring back enough of what audiences liked—the…Read More
Oct 18 Love1 Screenwriting 101: Three Common Features of 2017’s Awards Contenders By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 Written by: Christopher Osterndorf Fall is here, and in Hollywood, that means one thing: Oscar season. Around this time every year,…Read More
Oct 17 Love4 Interview: “Goodbye Christopher Robin” Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce on Why His Screenplay is “technically all wrong” By Staff Main, Screenwriting 101 By Shanee Edwards Most of us grew up with the Winnie-the-Pooh books that feature Pooh Bear, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga and…Read More
Oct 16 Love0 The Importance of Marketing: Happy Death Day’s Box Office Victory Over Blade Runner 2049 By Staff Main This weekend marked a significant surprise at the box office with the Blumhouse/Universal co-production Happy Death Day earning $26.5 million…Read More
Oct 13 Love2 The Great Screenwriters: Part 16 – Robert Towne By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101 Chinatown (1974) really should have a silent ‘e’ - “Chinatowne” – because for all the brilliance of its other creators…Read More
Oct 12 Love41 Hollywood Gatekeepers on What Makes a Great Screenplay: ‘Will these characters and this story stand the test of time?’ By Jeff Legge Main, Screenwriting 101 There's no use beating around the bush. The prominence of spec sales in Hollywood has diminished radically over the last…Read More
Oct 11 Love2 Protected: Interview with —— —- Competition Winner R.B. Ripley: “Write about a big idea that’s important to you.” By Jeff Legge Main, Screenwriting 101 Read More