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The Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Ending Makes No Sense

Spoiler warning: Don’t read this, obviously, if you don’t want to hear about the ending of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.…

1 year ago
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What Finding Nemo Can Teach Us About Screenwriting (and Change)

Haley Bartels is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow. Her first feature, an independent indie horror…

1 year ago
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Austin Film Festival’s 2022 Screenwriters To Watch List, Presented by MovieMaker

The screenwriter might be the last person you’re thinking about walking out of a movie theater. Nonetheless, it is the…

2 years ago
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Good Girl Jane Writer-Director Sarah Elizabeth Mintz Wrote A ‘Page Turny, Black List’-y Script — Then Tossed It and Started Over

In 2017, Good Girl Jane writer-director Sarah Elizabeth Mintz was living any moviemaker's dream. Her script, then titled Junk Food…

2 years ago
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House of Gucci Writer Says the Key Was to ‘Make It Very Ironic and Really Not Take the Characters Too Seriously’

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/roberto-bentivegna-house-of-gucci House of Gucci went through several writers before the project found one who could do justice to the surreally…

2 years ago
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How to Format Text Messages in Your Screenplay

If you're writing a movie or TV script set in the present day, the moment will probably arise when your…

2 years ago
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Michael Berenbaum: Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker

Berenbaum worked with Al Pacino on Chinese Coffee. Trust yourself. A lot of times I’ve worked with first time directors…

3 years ago
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Ed Harris’ Artist’s Sensibility

Ed Harris Since the late 1970s, Ed Harris has made more than 50 television and film appearances. It didn't take…

3 years ago
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker

Keep it simple. Encourage the actors after every take. Acting is like jumping without a parachute—it’s a scary thing to…

3 years ago
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker

What I have learned from my filmmaking experience is to trust my instincts. This dates back to when I went…

3 years ago