When Stephen Karam was adapting his Tony award-winning play The Humans, he fought the urge to include more technical directional…
Richard Linklater's Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot,…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to…
Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel that would dictate the…
Continuing to explore her interest in lost souls, found elsewhere in her films The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008),…
We grew up loving movies. We also love reading books. In fact, many times while reading said books, we wondered what the…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “If, in the first chapter,…
With three days to go before the premiere, Neil Gaiman's loyal fanbase is eagerly awaiting the small-screen adaption, by the…
In 2002, I wrote the short story “Natasha” as a kind of repudiation of filmmaking. I’d returned to Toronto after…
In MovieMaker’s Complete Guide to Making Movies 2017 issue, Adam Coplan posits that when it comes to finding sources for…
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, "First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Finding the right concept to…
Q: Who owns the copyright to a script when it’s based off someone else’s originally created characters? Should the screenwriter…
Adapted from the 2012 New York Times best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl is a merciless depiction of marriage…
Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto's new romantic drama Twice Born, an adaptation of the bestselling novel Venuto nel Mondo by author…
Black sheep. There seems to be one or two in every family: dysfunctional relatives who, no matter how much they…
The novel Brighton Rock, written by Graham Greene in 1938, is one of the most cherished classics of British 20th-century…
Screenwriters have a tendency to operate by a specific set of traditional rules: Establish your characters and their situation, introduce…