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Over the last decade, an unanswerable question has sparked ferocious debate not just in Hollywood, but throughout literature and other creative disciplines: Is it OK...
Visit any Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter screenwriting thread, and you'll witness much debate when it comes to any form of screenwriting advice offered or questioned....
This summer marks 20 years since The Terminal, a heartwarming drama about an Eastern European man stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport following...
Hacks screenwriters Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky took home the 2024 Emmy for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for their third...
If the protagonist of your latest screenplay is feeling a little one-dimensional, here’s a trick that might lend them some more intrigue: give them a...
One of the most memorable moments in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the legacy sequel that debuts 36 years after Tim Burton’s 1988 Beetlejuice, is the homage to...
A theatrical round of applause please, readers, for a microgenre of cinema we don’t talk about often: films about the staging of a play. In...
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