
Is there anything better than sitting down to watch a formulaic holiday movie? While formulas can get tiresome in other genres, holiday rom-coms expect to...
Is there anything better than sitting down to watch a formulaic holiday movie? While formulas can get tiresome in other genres, holiday rom-coms expect to...
More and more creatives are turning to the independent film world and it’s easy to see why. By making your feature or short film independently,...
Alma Har’el is a director, producer, and writer celebrated for directing works like Shia LaBeouf's semi-autobiographical Honey Boy and the highly stylized Bombay Beach. Most...
It’s one of the most frustrating barriers screenwriters have faced since the litigious era of the 1980s—being confronted with the legal message sent by an...
I have a confession. Back in the day, long before I had any consistent professional screenwriting contract work, I hated taking the time to outline...
As the showrunner of Amazon Prime Video's The Sticky, Brian Donovan has turned one of Canada's most bizarre true crimes—the maple syrup heist of 2011,...
Gallows humor has long been renowned in communities of strife, from firefighters to military veterans to medical professionals: multiple studies have found that grim humor...
Editor's Note: This post contains spoilers for Wicked: Part One. Returning to the Land of Oz nearly 85 years later has never felt so exciting....
One of the most misinterpreted opportunities that screenwriters will encounter is open writing assignments (OWAs). When we’re talking about OWAs, we’re not talking about contracted...
When adapting true stories for narrative films, there is inherently some sort of artistic leniency to be taken to entertain. This is often the challenge...