I feel the need ...
We should object to the ‘America – fuck yeah!’ jingoism, but a lot of us don’t. We should be nauseated by the best of the best of the...
How to get your screenplay to go places
I included the following in a recent script report. I think it's a good way to look at screenwriting and screenplays generally: as...
Apple’s Megadeal for Brad Pitt
In a potentially game-changing deal that could impact how streamers and theatrical distributors coexist, Apple has closed a pact to...
12 Powerful Principles of Story Structure
I am republishing this article by renowned screenwriting teacher Michael Hague, who taught me when I started screenwriting, because I...
Spread The Word (But Don’t)
I have been approached multiple times by people who have written film screenplays or VOD/TV screenplays in Microsoft Word or Mac Pages....
CAN YOU REACH?
I watched the first six episodes of the new Amazon Prime streamer REACHER (Amazon Studios, Blackjack Films Inc., Paramount Television,...
DESPITE THE FALLING SNOW
I was hired to cover this screenplay in 2016. My script report is below. The score I gave the screenplay tallies quite well with the...
Words are a screenwriter's last resort
ARCTIC (2018 - Dir: Joe Penna) illustrates the obvious: that when it comes to screenplays, the less said the better. There is almost no...
Moviedome UK
I want to shout out Moviedome UK - a recent free-to-view discovery for me on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxHMlGkKCTcUUTH4...
How fast does that go?
If you know what film that title quotes, my bet is that you are as passionate about the Michael Mann directed MIAMI VICE the film (2006)...
