
It’s easy to forget just what an extraordinary catalog the public domain is for us writers. The public domain contains works whose copyrights have expired,...
It’s easy to forget just what an extraordinary catalog the public domain is for us writers. The public domain contains works whose copyrights have expired,...
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What screenwriting lessons could the success of Cobra Kai teach you? Let's be honest — when we saw that Youtube Red was developing a thirty-minute...
What can quotes from Ron Howard — director of such iconic films as Splash, Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft, Apollo 13, Ransom, A Beautiful Mind, and...
If producers had to narrow it down to specific elements within a screenplay that would best persuade them to take a chance on a screenwriter...
It’s tough to mix art and commerce, but it’s called show business for a reason. As a producer, I live at the nexus of creative...
What are some secret ways to break through, over, under, or around the Hollywood walls that are keeping aspiring screenwriters, producers, and filmmakers from their...