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Movie News
Watch Paul McCartney Improvise ‘Get Back’ in Peter Jackson’s Get Back
November 29, 2021It’s a dark time for the Beatles. They’re scheduled to perform for a live audience in...
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Movie News
House of Gucci Saves Time by Cutting Out Some Guccis
November 25, 2021House of Gucci is a glorious, sprawling story of family rivalry, tracking the shifting plots and...
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Podcasts
Jared Leto Came Up With That Urination Scene in House of Gucci, Writer Says
November 24, 2021One of the most over-the-top scenes in the delightfully outlandish House of Gucci arrives when the...
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Articles - Screenwriting
House of Gucci Writer Says the Key Was to ‘Make It Very Ironic and Really Not Take the Characters Too Seriously’
November 24, 2021House of Gucci went through several writers before the project found one who could do justice...
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Movie News
The King Richard Drive-By Shooting Scene Is Inspired by Horrible Real Events
November 20, 2021(Spoiler Warning: Don’t read this if you haven’t seen King Richard, and specifically the drive-by shooting scene.)...
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Movie News
King Richard: Watch Richard Williams Check a Reporter for Questioning Venus Williams’ Confidence (Video)
November 20, 2021One of the most powerful moments in King Richard comes when Richard Williams (Will Smith) stops...
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Movie News
King Richard: How That John McEnroe-Pete Sampras Meeting Really Happened
November 20, 2021One of the most astonishing moments in King Richard arrives early in the film when Richard...
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Movie News
Why Kurt Vonnegut Wrote in Simple Words We Can All Understand
November 19, 2021The new documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, includes an excerpt from Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast...
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The Rundown
Pam & Tommy Trailer; a Sexy Scene From 1946; C’Mon C’mon, C’mon C’Mon
November 18, 2021The Pam & Tommy trailer combines trash and tragedy; a sexy scene from 1946; maybe call it...
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Movie News
You Mean Everything to Me Follows a Young Woman’s Grim Coercion Into the Sex Industry (Exclusive Trailer)
November 18, 2021“Growing up in Las Vegas, I was close with a girl who found her way into...
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The Rundown
Fincher’s Zodiac Killers; Ridley Scott is Right; Tarantino’s NFTs
November 17, 2021Ridley Scott is right that most superhero movies are bad, but is otherwise wrong; Quentin Tarantino...
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Movie News
Obi-Wan Kenobi Trailer; Doctor Strange Reshoots; Do We All Hate Sex Scenes?
November 15, 2021Summer of Soul cleans up at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards; Doctor Strange reshoots are happening;...
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Movie News
Verhoeven’s Sex Scenes; P.T. Anderson’s Morning; Tarantino Goes to the Movies
November 11, 2021Paul Verhoeven says he storyboards his sex scenes; Paul Thomas Anderson’s daily routine; Quentin Tarantino wants...
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The Rundown
Passing‘s Vision; the Cult of DiCaprio; House of Gucci Reactions
November 10, 2021The making of Passing; Leonardo DiCaprio looks to play cult leader Jim Jones, House of Gucci...
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The Rundown
Eternals Criticism; Which Scripts Sell; Vin Diesel’s Plea to The Rock
November 8, 2021An interesting theory about criticism of Chloé Zhao’s Eternals; Palm Springs is exactly the kind of script...
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Articles - Screenwriting
How to Format Text Messages in Your Screenplay
November 8, 2021If you’re writing a movie or TV script set in the present day, the moment will...
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Movie News
The Beta Test: Inside the Secretly Sad Lives of Struggling Hollywood Agents
November 5, 2021When Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe began research for their new thriller The Beta Test, about...
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The Rundown
Magic Johnson Docuseries; Playing Serena Williams; Grizzly v. Ninja
November 4, 2021Magic Johnson gets a docuseries that should be even better than Michael Jordan’s; meet the 14-year-old...
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Podcasts
Detainee 001: How ‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh Became the Unlikely Face of Islamic Extremism
November 3, 2021John Walker Lindh, the teenager fromt the San Francisco suburbs who earned the unlikely moniker of...
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The Rundown
Nolan’s Oppenheimer Cast; A Ninja Rejuvenated; Did Tony Soprano Die?
November 3, 2021Christopher Nolan adds to the stellar cast of Oppenheimer; meet the director who salvaged lost footage...
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The Rundown
Boba Fett Trailer; Box Office Rebound; Vanilla Ice; Wolf Talk
November 1, 2021Box office bounced back last month; Dune keeps it going; Vanilla Ice looks back on a...
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Movie News
Last Night in Soho Director Edgar Wright and Star Thomasin McKenzie on the Problem of Nostalgia
October 28, 2021“I sort of have this ongoing fantasy, like a lot of people do,” says Edgar Wright,...
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How to Write a Screenplay
Screenwriting Advice From Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Co-Writer of 1917 and Last Night in Soho
October 27, 2021Last Night in Soho co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns, an Oscar nominee for co-authoring 1917, offers the screenwriting...
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Festivals
How Bridge-Builder Sandra Lipski Created the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival
October 20, 2021A little over a decade ago, Sandra Lipski was an L.A.-based actor-filmmaker from Berlin who decided...
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