OKPicture this: You’re curled up with your favorite book that also happens to be your favorite movie. Spending more time at home last year resulted in an uptick in book sales, and film screenplays are ...

Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length screenplays that weren’t the product of a paid writing assignment. To filter through hundreds and thousands of ...

A great screenplay is more than snappy dialogue and a compelling hook; it's structure, rhythm, character, subtext, and that intangible electricity that makes you lean forward. It's the invisible hand ...

Some great screenplays are immediately acclaimed. Others slip through the cracks, especially when it comes to the Oscars. The Academy frequently bypasses inventive, boundary-pushing scripts in favor ...

A screenplay is the written version of a film or an episode of television. Simple, right? Wrong. Unlike a completed work, such as a novel or a short story, a screenplay is the first in a long series ...

OK, OK: so you don’t like horror movies. There’s nothing wrong with that. During the Halloween season, however, it’s tough to listen to the cool kids talk up the latest scare fare while you stand ...

Looking to transform Hollywood’s pile of unproduced scripts into publishable e-books, James West, a motion-picture industry entrepreneur, has launched Script Lit. The company licenses optioned, but ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Flyby was a Superman script written by Mr. Felicity himself, J.J. Abrams. The film was supposed to be produced y Brett Ratner ...

Franklin Leonard, now an executive at Universal, released the 2009 edition of his compendium of the "most liked" screenplays of this past year Friday morning. By Jay A. Fernandez, The Associated Press ...

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 ...

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