Movie Reviews · 2 min

Mini Review – Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Mercifully Short Review by Jonathan Empson Jesse (Josh Radnor) is 35 and lives in New York, where he reads continuously and is admired from…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 13

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Story & Structure · 1 min

[Video]: Andrew Dominik on adapting Killing Them Softly

Screenwriter-director Andrew Dominik discusses adapting Cogan's Trade into the upcoming release, Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt and Ben Mendelsohn. What attracted him to making the…

Pitching & Selling · 5 min

Pitch script. Do deal. Bank cheque.

You’ve written and rewritten, gotten notes, rewritten again, crossed the t’s and dotted the i’s and now what? What happens next? by Jenny Frankfurt If you are…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 7 Oct

Story & Structure :: Conflict and ‘The Social Network’ :: Major Characters + Moral Problems :: Meet the Reader: How I Do What I Do ::…

Movie Reviews · 1 min

Mini Review – Mental

Mental Mercifully Short Review by Jonathan Empson The pig-headed mayor of a small coastal town, Porpoise Spit Dolphin Heads, has a downtrodden wife (Rebecca Gibney in…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 12

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 30 Sep

Story & Structure :: The Importance of Character Depth :: The #1 Most Important Element In Developing A Character :: Antagonists and ‘What About Bob’ ::…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 11

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Story & Structure · 5 min

The Heart of Storytelling

My grandmother’s sister, an elderly spinster, died last year while I was overseas. The news sent minor waves through me; I was more upset by the…

Best of the Web · 1 min

Best of the Web 23 Sep

Story & Structure :: Exposition Techniques: Part 1 :: Exposition Techniques: Part 2 :: High Concept Comedy :: Screenplay Review: 'Rehab' by Sam Laybourne :: The…

Movie Moments · 4 min

Movie Moment: JCVD deserved not a black belt, but an Oscar

Take a fallen action movie star, plant him in a foreign language arthouse movie and tell his story. You might end up with indigestible pretention... or…

Logline It! · 4 min

Logline it! – Week 10

Writing loglines is an essential skill for screenwriters, from early development through to the pitch. In this section, every week our panel reviews a few loglines…

Video · 1 min

[Video]: Learn The Art Of Pitching From The Writers Of Despicable Me

Screenwriters Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio of Universal's animated anti-hero comedy animationDespicable Me discuss why they're so glad they don't have to pitch anymore - and…

Stuff · 3 min

The 7 Scene Shuffle: an exercise for blocked writers

"I've got my characters, and I've got some cool ideas -- but I don't have a story!" This might have been all of us at one…