“Judging a screenplay from a finished film,” an apocalyptically disheartened screenwriter once told me, “is like arriving at a murder scene and instantly deciding that the victim had it coming.” It’s ...

Writing for an animated film is like painting on an infinite canvas—there are literally no bounds. You don’t have to worry about expensive or dangerous stunts, keeping your sets small for the sake of ...

WriterDuet is a free cloud screenwriting software. It comes with some advanced tools that help you write professional screenplays. You don’t have to focus on the formatting; just write your script and ...

November is the time of year when movie studios release the best they’ve got. Take Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” a time-dilating science-fiction film starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne ...

Co-writer and producer Anthony Hines describes the massive amount of material the film's eight screenwriters produced, preparing their actors for any situation. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor But what ...

A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

In some ways, 16-year-old Wendy Wasserstrom spent the past year of lockdowns and shutdowns as many of us did. “Over quarantine, there was not a lot to do,” said Wasserstrom, a Bexley High School ...

Filmmaker Jason Reitman (left) with Gabriel Lerman, co-artistic director of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Between them is the Argentinian flag. Matthew Carey On Wednesday night the ...