These writers just made the Variety Ten Screenwriters To Watch List: Travis Beacham | Sheila Callaghan | Adam Cozad | Michael Diliberti | Tim Dowling | Lena Dunham | Seth Grahame-Smith | Simons & Schoolcraft | Mike Jones | Jones … Read the rest
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Everything Is Copy
Nora Ephron tells the Kansas City Star how coming from a f%^&d-up family helped her to be a successful screenwriter/novelist/director/etc. If only that were they key….… Read the rest
Amazon Lets People Screw With Your Script
How’s this for a deal:
(1) Upload your script (or feature length film) to Amazon.com
(2) Give Amazon a free 18 month option
(3) Amazon lets anyone in the entire world rewrite your script (or re-edit your film) to try … Read the rest
Disarming Interview
Here’s a quick interview with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, writer of highly entertaining, but excruciating film 127 Hours. (Via Critics Choice Movies YouTube channel.)… Read the rest
He Really Wanted To Be A Lawyer
Liam O’Donell moved to Los Angeles in order to try to get into law school. Good thing he took a screenwriting course in college to have something to fall back on. His new film is Skyline. Do you want … Read the rest
Commie, Pinko, Screenwriter
Today, how about a Marxist book review (are there really still Marxists?) of a new tome about brilliant (communist) American screenwriter John Howard Lawson. If you do not know Lawson, consider that his book Theory and Technique of Playwriting and … Read the rest
The Rubik’s Cube That Saved The World
Do you happen to have a screenplay featuring a Rubik’s Cube that saves the world? This is your big chance. CAA is trying to find a story to go with its newly acquired Rubik’s Cube rights. Pitch away, pitch … Read the rest
