Screenwriting
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60 Six-Second Screenwriting Tips From Brian Koppelman
It’s unlikely that you’ll see Brian Koppelman plugging a screenwriting how-to book anytime soon. The writer/director behind Ocean’s Thirteen and Solitary Man publicly denounced the…
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The New Black List Wants to Put Your Script in the Hands of Hollywood
As it says on its website, The Black List – the annual guide to the most well-liked unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood – is responsible…
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4 Screenwriting Tips to Help You Win the Four Stories Filmmaking Competition
You’ve only got 7 more days to enter the Four Stories Filmmaking Competition, which means you’ve either got to hustle or you’re still polishing and…
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Charlie Kaufman
From 2012, we gathered up some of Charlie Kaufman’s filmmaking and screenwriting lessons.
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Craig Mazin Explains How the Screenwriting Industry Got So Depressing
The Writers Guild of America’s latest survey of screenwriters [PDF] shows that the world of storytelling isn’t that sunny. From the bother of late payments…
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WGA Claims Working Conditions For Screenwriters Have Worsened
Citing late payments and a general feeling that giving away some rewrite work for free is necessary to compete, the latest WGA survey shows that…
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Joss Whedon’s ‘Avengers’ Screenwriting Hurdle? Too Many Characters
It’s always refreshing to hear a filmmaker talk candidly about the concerns and difficulties of creating something as large as, say, a blockbuster comic book…
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Editor’s Blog: The Devil’s Adjective
This is my public retraction: Josh Olson is not an asshole. It’s a Saturday afternoon in March, and I’m sitting in historic Black’s BBQ full of…
