All posts tagged "Scream"
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Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All
We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193 million worldwide... -
Nice Day For a Red Herring: Watch How Kevin Williamson’s Scream Screenplay Throws Audiences Off Its Trail (Video)
As it turns out, a mask isn’t the only thing that can conceal the killer’s identity in a horror film. In screenwriter... -
First Draft: Why A Screenwriter Should Think Like A Film Editor
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. When the original cut... -
Wes Craven Screams Anew
Legendary Master of Horror Prefers to Be Known as a Working Stiff In honor of the late Wes Craven’s would-be birthday, we’re... -
The End of Your Trope: Three Gendered Horror Conventions and Ideas for Putting Them to Death
When MovieMaker first asked me to write a piece about female tropes in the movies, I misread the email and thought they... -
The Evils of Franchising Your Horror Film: Should You Attempt World Domination?
To successfully establish a horror franchise is to achieve some level of film industry transcendence. Something you made is granted longevity, validation,... -
Halloween Retro-SPOOK-tive: Wes Craven Screams Anew
“This is Halloween, everybody make a scene/ Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright/ It’s our town, everybody scream/...
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Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
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...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
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
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...2