All posts tagged "Stephen King"
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No Guts, No Story: Find Your Screenplay’s Soul By Trusting Your Instincts and Your Allies
I’ve wanted to make films for a long time, but my problem was always the ability to write something. I’d written down... -
The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of communities, withstood... -
Crowdfunder Pick: Stephen King Dollar Baby "The Doctor’s Case" Launches Campaign
In MovieMaker’s Complete Guide to Making Movies 2017 issue, Adam Coplan posits that when it comes to finding sources for script ideas,... -
Festival Wrap: Rich Metaphor Abounds at the Sixth Paris International Fantastic Film Festival
“Horror is like a serpent,” Dario Argento once said, “always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back.” At... -
First Draft: Crafting Supervillains by Pushing Your Antagonists Over the Edge
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. The importance of the... -
From Proof of Concept to Praise From King: How “Within the Woods” Gave The Evil Dead Creative and Financial Life
On October 15, 1981, director Sam Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and actor Bruce Campbell unveiled their passion project feature debut to an... -
First Draft: How to Cut the Fat from Your Screenplays
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “When your story is... -
First Draft: Five Reasons Short Stories are Easier to Adapt Than Novels
In partnership with the blog ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a fortnightly series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, written... -
Restless Heart, Roving Camera: Cary Fukunaga Marries Electric Passion and Technique in Beasts of No Nation
Two years ago, only cinephiles knew who Cary Joji Fukunaga was. He was the Oakland-born writer-director of gritty, modestly budgeted films, one... -
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Kimberly Peirce
Kimberly Peirce dispenses the life lessons she’s picked up on her journey from her smash hit debut, Boys Don’t Cry, to this...
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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