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First Draft: 15 Outside-the-Box Screenplays That Found Box Office Success
By Ken Miyamoto on August 23, 2018
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to the notion...
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First Draft: Best “Plant and Payoff” Scenes Screenwriters Can Learn From
By Ken Miyamoto on September 19, 2017
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “If, in the first chapter, you say...
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Things I’ve Learned: Crispin Glover
By Crispin Glover on March 5, 2014
Actor-director Crispin Glover, best known for his performances in Back to the Future and Willard, as well as for directing the films What is...

Inside the Issue: Acting

Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
Ryan Coleman | July 23, 2018
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...

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Inside the Issue: Directing

Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
Lauren Greenfield | July 17, 2018
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...
Inside the Issue: How To

How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham | July 10, 2018
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...

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First Draft: 15 Outside-the-Box Screenplays That Found Box Office Success