These days it’s no secret that Hollywood is all about remakes, reboots, sequels, comic book characters and proven intellectual properties like video games and book adaptations. Brick and mortar movie…
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For most of us, writing a screenplay can take months, even years. Sometimes, just getting a working outline can be a Herculean effort. We’ve all heard of a ‘vomit draft’…
If you go on Matthew Helderman’s IMDb page, you’ll notice he has over 100 credits for films he produced, including the recent movie Driven about John DeLorean, creator of the…
Considering Giles Alderson’s new film The Dare recently won the Audience Award at the 2019 Popcorn Frights Film Festival, you’ll definitely want to check out Alderson’s recent podcast where he…
Lancaster Skies is an ambitious World War II film shot with the shockingly low budget of £80,000 (about $100,000 in U.S. dollars). Sure, it took four years and all the…
I’ve been using Final Draft screenwriting software since 2002. But so many times I’ve found myself throwing up my hands in frustration, and simply wanting a minimal, clean writing interface….
On a recent episode of The Q&A podcast, Jeff Goldsmith interviews Joe Robert Cole, co-writer of Black Panther, the first comic book movie ever to be nominated for a Best…
Dirty Dancing is one of those great movies that still delights us after 31 years. Taking place over one summer in the Catskills, themes of honor, loyalty, idealism, class and…
The film Die Hard from 1988 is legendary when it comes to action movies, more for what it didn’t do than what it did do for the genre. Bruce Willis…
You probably wouldn’t be a screenwriter if you hadn’t grown up watching summer blockbusters. Movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Die Hard, The Dark Knight and…
