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Successful screenwriter Nancy Meyers talks about her career at the Screenwriters Expo
By ALICE CHARLES | Published 12/8/2008 | Read more »
Have you ever dreamed of being a screenwriter? Have you ever imagined what it would be like if millions watched your television show or play?
By Ashley Sinatra | Published 1/31/2007 | Read more »
A screenwriter who has broken into the biz via his horror screenplays.
By Wes Laurie | Published 3/17/2008 | Read more »
"Juno" scribe - and former stripper - Diablo Cody is not your typical screenwriter. Her checkered past has provided great source material, and, to say the least, has inspired great writing.
By Hartley Engel | Published 12/18/2007 | Read more »
Movie Magic Screenwriter is a very useful piece of software for writers. Aside from being a very popular screen writing software, it is also useful for multimedia projects, radio or stage plays, novels and television shows scripts
By JessicaLynn | Published 7/26/2007 | Read more »
In an in-depth interview with filmmaker Daniel Waters, who became famous for scripting "Heathers," we discuss the making of his new feature, "Sex and Death 101,"Winona Ryder, Simon Baker, genre twisting and the possible plot for a "Heathers 2."
By Terry Keefe | Published 4/8/2008 | Read more »
I've been writing for over 40 years, had some minor successes along the way, but this was the first time that any of my scripts got any recognition outside of landing in the Reject pile.
By Shakurra Amatulla | Published 12/12/2008 | Read more »
Originally conceived as a motivational tool for himself, Zackham turned the concept of a "Bucket List" into a screenplay.
By Steven Bryan | Published 1/11/2008 | Read more »
Screenwriting contests are a great way for screenwriters to break into the business. However, before you enter any contest, be sure to follow a few simple guidelines.
By Will Wright | Published 5/9/2007 | Read more »
Professional movie and television writers were asked to pick their top ten screenplays from any era of filmmaking. Here are the top ten.
By Will Wright | Published 5/9/2007 | Read more »
This article examines a few of the many techniques outlined in "Secrets of Film Writing" and provides examples of screenwriters who succeeded with Tom Lazarus' guidelines.
By BRIAN KONRADT | Published 8/14/2006 | Read more »
To sell a screenplay you have to avoid these common mistakes.
By Will Wright | Published 3/23/2007 | Read more »
I've sold scripts to high profile TV shows. Here's some tips to get you started, organized and motivated.
By Will Stape | Published 2/7/2007 | Read more »
I had never written a television spec before so I didn't have one on hand; I only had three weeks before the deadline, and on top of all of that, I didn't have cable. Yeah, good luck.
By Kobina Wright | Published 3/30/2007 | Read more »
A biography of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Maurice Rapf
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 8/22/2008 | Read more »
A biography of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 9/1/2008 | Read more »
A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ben Hecht
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 12/24/2008 | Read more »
A profile of the poet, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Zoe Akins
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 8/18/2008 | Read more »
A biography of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr.
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 8/13/2008 | Read more »
Dore Schary was a stage actor-turned-playwright who became a screenwriter in Hollywood, eventually rising to become M-G-M production chief. Schary was a great liberal who believed in the didactic power of the movies.
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 11/23/2007 | Read more »
A review of screenwriter Joe Eszterhaus' memoir
By ALICE CHARLES | Published 2/20/2008 | Read more »
Talking to Screenwriter Felicia D. Henderson, one of the writers featured in DOING IT FOR MONEY ed. Daryl G. Nickens (Tallfellow Press)
By ALICE CHARLES | Published 1/3/2008 | Read more »
That long title says it all. Learn more about a Hollywood screenwriter forever changed the landscape upon which the werewolf trods.
By Timothy Sexton | Published 8/13/2008 | Read more »
Evil Eyes is a horror thriller starring Adam Baldwin as Jeff Stenn. Jennifer Gates plays Jeff's wife Tree Stenn. Jeff is a Hollywood screenwriter who is having trouble finding work.
By Alicegirl | Published 7/14/2008 | Read more »
Academy Award, Golden Globe award winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, and also active humanitarian. Clooney has used his celebrity status to raise money for refugees through 'Not On Our Watch" charity to focus on the crisis in Darfur.
By Angelina Crowley | Published 9/8/2008 | Read more »
Diablo Cody, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "Juno," has returned to her blog on MySpace to do a little ranting, according to Gawker.com. She rants about her haters, her detractors, her revilers. She rants about her pseudonym. So... what's in a name?
By saul relative | Published 9/18/2008 | Read more »
I recently caught up with The G-man for an exclusive interview, which turned out to be a very memorable and enlightening experience.
By Dr. Jamie Y. Marable | Published 5/24/2008 | Read more »
Rob Yescombe from Free Radical, Screenwriter on Haze gives the readers an in depth look at this classic game in the making.
By Gareth Mc Bride | Published 3/4/2008 | Read more »
Charlie Kaufman's been a successful screenwriter with "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Adaptation," and "Being John Malkovich." Now, he's a director, too...perhaps not as successfully.
By Connie Wilson | Published 10/20/2008 | Read more »
The Salem Film Festival might automatically conjure a fledgling little film festival in a small city that won't really ever break out of the box. This film fest, though, might just might become one of the best known on the U.S. west coast in another five years...
By Greg Brian (Gregoriancant) | Published 4/22/2008 | Read more »
The best practices to get your pitch in front of the people who can make it happen. If you've dreamed of making a deal in Hollywood, this will help you get started on your path.
By Michael Allen | Published 5/9/2008 | Read more »
A biography of John Howard Lawson
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 12/27/2008 | Read more »
I am a writer and I follow the writers as well as certain actors and directors (producers not so much). One of those screenwriters is up for an Academy Award February 22 for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." His name is Eric Roth.
By saul relative | Published 2/22/2009 | Read more »
Dirty Dancing is a classic movie released in 1987, based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood. Set in the sixties in a New York's Catskill Mountains resort, Dirty Dancing is a dance version of Eastside Girl meet Westside Boy.
By Jan Peterson | Published 3/19/2009 | Read more »
A biography of Samuel Ornitz
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 12/27/2008 | Read more »
Biography of Hollywood 10 Member Herbert J. Biberman
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 12/24/2008 | Read more »
Among horror writers, he is legend. He is Richard Matheson, author of "I Am Legend," writer for Twilight Zone, and screenwriter for the Corman-Price Edgar Alan Poe movies of the early 60's.
By Nick Howes | Published 12/31/2007 | Read more »
Many people want to become a screenwriter, but they don't know how to get there. Here are some pointers on how to begin.
By John Campbell | Published 10/28/2008 | Read more »
CHICAGO - Diablo Cody fittingly ushered in her Chicago "Juno" junket in classic Diablo Cody style: The night prior, she blogged with brevity where she'd be kicking back and when.
By HollywoodChicago.com | Published 4/11/2008 | Read more »
Director Phillip Saville and screenwriter John Goldsmith set out to adapt the most beloved of the four gospels for the big screen. How does it hold up? This article examines that subject.
By R.E. Norton | Published 2/12/2007 | Read more »
The great comedic screenwriter and eventual director, Preston Sturges, created some of the funniest and socially conscious films of the 1940's. Whether or not Sturges' films were deliberately aware and intending to address such issues as the Depression, poverty, ...
By Jonathan Hiott | Published 2/21/2007 | Read more »
Using archetypes can help you tap into the collective unconscious to create stories that resonate with audiences as well as raise your writing to mythic proportions.
By Will Wright | Published 5/9/2007 | Read more »
The measure of any screenwriter is how he or she handles exposition. Many writers can craft interesting scenes with quick, witty dialogue. But what sets apart the professional from the amateur is how each approaches exposition.
By Will Wright | Published 2/1/2007 | Read more »
A fictional biopic of photographer Diane Arbus, Fur, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., from director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, transcends dull biographical cinema into a highly imaginative portrait.
By Jason Cangialosi | Published 12/20/2006 | Read more »
Scottish screenwriter Paul Pender talks about working with Pierce Brosnan
By ALICE CHARLES | Published 12/7/2007 | Read more »
I thought I was master of my fate: I left home, moved to a different state, chose to study theatre and history in college, and have become a playwright, columnist, and screenwriter. Nothing to do with the police work of my father. Yet he chose my path...
By David Bareford | Published 7/1/2005 | Read more »
A screenwriter reflects on his humorous and odd experiences with the rich, the famous, and the truly weird in Hollywood.
By Dennis Dale | Published 3/31/2006 | Read more »
I had stumbled upon the website called Storylink around late last year around 2006 from an advertisement on a Writer's Store catalog. I took a look around and decided to join because I'm between an aspiring and freelance screenwriter.
By Can Tran | Published 7/26/2007 | Read more »
These days, doesn't everyone knows someone who's recently decided to become a screenwriter ?There are plenty of tools you can buy to help him or her pursue the screenwriter dream.
By Abe | Published 10/17/2006 | Read more »
Screenwriter Mark Albracht suggests that not every piece of script advice is sound advice. Here are four examples of script rules gone bad.
By Mark Albracht | Published 12/3/2007 | Read more »
"When it's 100 in New York, it is 72 in Los Angeles. When it's 20 in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. However, there are six million interesting people in New York - and 72 in Los Angeles."
Neil Simon - On why he prefers New York over Los Angeles.
By John Sanchez | Published 8/2/2007 | Read more »
An interview with Jay Wolpert, the first producer of the Bob Barker version of "Price is Right." He's also a screenwriter who helped create the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.
By Elliot Feldman | Published 10/28/2007 | Read more »
Give a gift to the screenwriter on your holiday list they need and will love.
By Will Stape | Published 11/30/2007 | Read more »
Finishing a movie script is step one. Next comes shopping it around. Do you have a plan?
By Will Stape | Published 9/10/2007 | Read more »
Screenwriter Elizabeth Rossi took the fate of her horror screenplay All Saints Eve into her own hands and started her own production company. I decided to bug her with some questions.
By Wes Laurie | Published 10/15/2007 | Read more »
Communist Party member Albert Maltz, one of the Hollywood 10, was jailed for contempt of Congress and then blacklisted for failing to cooperate with HUAC
By JON C. HOPWOOD | Published 10/20/2007 | Read more »
The Coliseum Cinemas Movie Club shows first-run, non-commercial art, documentary, & independent films in Washington Heights, New York City. Inwood, Washington Heights, Harlem & Riverdale residents ecstatic that they can view art films close to home.
By Cori Morenberg | Published 2/8/2006 | Read more »
Lacking in story and consistency in humor, I was glad that I did not pay to watch this movie.
By ZeN | Published 1/17/2006 | Read more »
The film HIGH NOON is screened in the White House every year to whatever administration is in power. Or so the myth goes... It's a western with Gary Cooper and has foreign policy implications within plot and character composition.
By Eric Westenberg | Published 2/8/2006 | Read more »
In the summer of 1992 my then-fiancée Michael and I went with my sister, her girlfriend, and friends to see a play I'd never heard of - "The Heidi Chronicles."
By Terri Rimmer | Published 3/3/2006 | Read more »
West Side Story, the 1961 film adaptation of one of the best American musical plays of all time, is one of the most acclaimed movies in Hollywood history.
By Alex Diaz-Granados | Published 1/9/2006 | Read more »
How did this once fine actor go from one of the most energetic, original and unpredictable talents of the �70s to the tired showman that he is today?
By Daniel Tervoort | Published 1/24/2006 | Read more »
Bernadette Connor was credited with being the first African-American author to have a psychological thriller published in the U.S.
By Eric Williams | Published 2/20/2006 | Read more »
A review of Blake Snyder's book on screenwriting. In Save the Cat, he explains everything you need to know about plot development, genres, and character development, so that anyone can create a movie that will sell.
By Barbara Peterson | Published 12/20/2005 | Read more »
A better-than-average soap opera due to the unique perspective and storytelling opportunities that the characters provide
By El Bicho | Published 11/30/2005 | Read more »
News and Networking Events Covering the Media and Show Business Industry for this Month from The Actor's Checklist News & Events page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html or through RSS/XML feed http://actorschecklist.com/showbiznews.rss.
By actorschecklist | Published 2/7/2006 | Read more »
If you thought the masturbation references in Prisoner of Azkaban were shocking, get ready for a full-scale hormonal assault in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
By Alexa DeGennaro | Published 11/19/2005 | Read more »
The name of the game is screenplay. New screenwriters are budding playwrights, not novelists. Novels belong to the art of literature. Although plays may be literary, drama is a separate art with its own requirements and goals.
By Wendy Jane Henson | Published 1/5/2006 | Read more »
On November 30th, 1947 David Alan Mamet was born in Chicago. Known for having an avid imagination and a natural knack for storytelling, throughout his childhood he was known to keep a pen and paper close.
By Rebecca V. | Published 11/3/2005 | Read more »
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is one of the rare teen-sex comedies that deserves its reputation as a classic of the genre. Worth a look!
By Alex Diaz-Granados | Published 12/23/2005 | Read more »
T-shirts? Games for the Literary Crowd? Dorothy Parker Martini Glasses? If you have writers on your shopping list, here are some recommended gifts.
By G. A. Jones | Published 1/4/2006 | Read more »
The American Fim Institute lists some anti heroes as heroes, some as villains and some as monsters.
By Illian Morisson | Published 5/2/2006 | Read more »
This year's edition of the New Directors/New Films festival is a typically mixed bag, with accomplished and original works alongside far less compelling ones.
By Christopher Bourne | Published 3/29/2006 | Read more »
If you liked the revised musical number in the Special Edition of Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, you'll love this single...if you don't have the soundtrack album, at least.
By Alex Diaz-Granados | Published 4/24/2006 | Read more »
The main problem for many novice screenwriters is that they are accustomed to narrative prose in which authors must describe everything. But screenplays are drama. Dramatists need to avoid description and to write action.
By Wendy Jane Henson | Published 4/24/2006 | Read more »
News and Networking Events Covering the Media and Show Business Industry for this Month from The Actor's Checklist News & Events page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html or through RSS/XML feed http://actorschecklist.com/showbiznews.rss.
By actorschecklist | Published 4/7/2006 | Read more »
Harry Potter learns that a convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has escaped from Azkaban prison, and could be coming after him.
By Robert Sandstrom | Published 11/3/2005 | Read more »
In the East Village of New York City and the West Side of Los Angeles, her films are all about relationships. Celebrity Relationships: Episode 3. Just as in book stores where certain asiles are frequented by women, films also focus on their preferrences.
By Steve Lee | Published 5/18/2006 | Read more »
Unlike their counterparts in Europe, older actresses in American have found out the hard way that the few roles offered to them in contemporary movies are small, offensive, stereotypical and demeaning.
By D.R.Scott | Published 4/5/2006 | Read more »
Many beginning screenwriters have never written anything, let alone a screenplay. Many know nothing about show business except that they love movies. They try to learn "the rules," hoping for a road map that will guide them through the maze.
By Wendy Jane Henson | Published 4/11/2006 | Read more »
Firewall is ultimately so generic and predictable that it's rendered utterly forgettable. One outrageous plot turn after another deprives the film of the required crescendo of an engaging thriller.
By Sarah Scott | Published 3/7/2006 | Read more »
Good screenwriters are in high demand in Hollywood, and even new comers to the business can earn in excess of six figures for the right script.
By Eisla Sebastian | Published 4/19/2006 | Read more »
Not many people would go to the lengths Angela Shelton did to heal a heart.
By Terri Rimmer | Published 3/21/2006 | Read more »
Ernest Hemingway was observed that bravery was "grace under pressure." I believe that the life of Christopher Reeves was a powerful example of Hemingway's theory, especially in the way he chose to live his life after his hirrible accident.
By D.R.Scott | Published 3/23/2006 | Read more »
This is a review of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events which is available on DVD and VHS.
By Chris Post | Published 4/4/2006 | Read more »
One question everybody needs to ask themselves when watching Hostel: "Why did I pay for a ticket to watch a movie about torture and murder?"
By Kevin Hofer | Published 3/11/2006 | Read more »
The Korean War is not often depicted on film, yet, some films do exist. This article is a short list of some Korean War films
By Abe | Published 4/19/2006 | Read more »
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film is just a mess. Poor casting, bad screenwriting, and not very good directing all add up to a messy film that isn't very funny.
By Jeremy W. Kaufmann | Published 5/17/2005 | Read more »
Batman Begins does just what the title says. It begins Batman's journey. This is the story of who Batman is and how he came to be, finally told with skill and respect on the big screen.
By Chris Brown | Published 6/27/2005 | Read more »
With March of the Penguins, Warner Independent Pictures and National Geographic Feature Films have released one of the most touching displays of intimate affection, courage, stamina, and neglect that the wild life has to offer.
By Sean Michael Benhabib | Published 6/24/2005 | Read more »
Winner of 11 Academy Awards, Ben Hur is still one of the most rented, bought and watched films of all time. A sweeping epic, it is a film classic duplicated but never equalled for its grandeur and multi-genre story.
By Patrick | Published 8/23/2006 | Read more »
Five tips on how to focus a wandering screenplay. Perhaps the most common flaw which keeps good script from being great, it's actually a relatively easy problem to fix.
By Mark Albracht | Published 6/30/2005 | Read more »
When people complain there are no more good movies to watch, they are looking at the wrong place. Sometimes you have to look back and sometimes underneath to find good alternatives for the tired old Hollywood formula.
By Irvin C | Published 7/18/2005 | Read more »
The auteur theory is a laughable enterprise in trying to assign authorship to a single individual associated with the making of a movie.
By Timothy Sexton | Published 6/30/2005 | Read more »
I enjoyed the film, finding it very well crafted and I was especially impressed by Condon's commentary.
By El Bicho | Published 6/24/2005 | Read more »
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