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April 11, 2014
Writer Jonathan Hirschbein worked for years on the film Bad Country with the late director, Chris Brinker, who passed away…
Tulsa King showrunner Terence Winter on finding the real Sylvester Stallone
February 16, 2014
MovieMaker Magazine speaks with Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) about what it takes to…
October 7, 2013
Basil Shadid's The Screenwriter's Toolkit is 18 exercises to combat writer’s block, two-dimensional characters, inert scenes, and everything else plaguing…
August 26, 2013
As you probably know, finishing (or finding) a script is only the beginning of any moviemaker’s odyssey from page to…
June 26, 2013
In celebration of the release of "Byzantium" this Friday, we've come up with a selection of 10 films that put…
June 24, 2013
As part of MovieMaker's DIY Monday, we are excited to provide some helpful Screenwriting Tips from writer Todd Klick. Screenwriting…
June 7, 2013
Oscar-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious) tells us about his audacious directorial debut, Violet & Daisy.
May 21, 2013
At the end of 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, actor-scribe Jason Segel inserted a Dracula puppet musical as both a touching…
April 18, 2013
Clip turned out to be one of the most unflinching and controversial portraits of teenage lust, longing, anguish, and rebellion…
April 8, 2013
When I first started writing the script for My Brother the Devil, it was just after the 7/7 tube bombings…