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The Humans Stephen Karam
November 24, 2021
While adapting his play The Humans, Stephen Karam felt the restrictions of screenwriting and created an image and clip-based document…
Richard Linklater Bernadette
August 19, 2019
To make his missing person dramedy Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Richard Linklater directed Cate Blanchett in an icy role shot…
August 23, 2018
Screenwriters: Return to these 15 classic scripts to remind yourself that crossover success need not sacrifice innovation.
August 23, 2018
Jeremiah Zagar's debut fiction feature We the Animals follows three rowdy brothers growing up in 1980s New York with two…
May 8, 2018
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl and The Headless Woman, Lucrecia…
February 13, 2018
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, co-writers of the Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Disaster Artist, reveal their secrets to creating…
September 19, 2017
The Plant and Payoff is a technique in screenwriting that offers added depth and meaning to two or more moments in a…
April 27, 2017
With three days to go before the premiere, the Neil Gaiman fanbase is awaiting the small-screen adaption of his 2001…
April 26, 2017
Natasha is the forbidden love story between Mark Berman, a 16-year-old suburban Russian-Jewish kid and his cousin by marriage, the…
February 3, 2017
When Douglas learned of the Dollar Babies initiative, he sent off an email containing the requisite short outline of how…
October 17, 2016
Is your story strong enough to go the distance? Avoid flaws that may doom your work to failure by taking…
October 4, 2016
Q: Who owns the copyright to a script when it’s based off someone else’s originally created characters? Cinema Law to…
October 3, 2014
Movie Review. Adapted from the 2012 New York Times best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl is a merciless depiction…
December 6, 2013
Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto's new romantic drama Twice Born, an adaptation of the bestselling novel Venuto nel Mondo by author…
November 15, 2012
Black sheep. There's one or two in every family: dysfunctional relatives who leave a path of screwed up situations and…
August 22, 2011
Rowan Joffé offers advice on film adaptation after becoming the second British director to do an onscreen translation of Graham…
March 20, 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind scribe Charlie Kaufman gives Moviemaker an inside look at his rebellious writing process.