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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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8