Screenwriting

60 Six-Second Screenwriting Tips From Brian Koppelman

It’s unlikely that you’ll see Brian Koppelman plugging a screenwriting how-to book anytime soon. The writer/director behind Ocean’s Thirteen and… Read More

The New Black List Wants to Put Your Script in the Hands of Hollywood

As it says on its website, The Black List - the annual guide to the most well-liked unproduced screenplays floating… Read More

4 Screenwriting Tips to Help You Win the Four Stories Filmmaking Competition

You’ve only got 7 more days to enter the Four Stories Filmmaking Competition, which means you’ve either got to hustle… Read More

6 Filmmaking Tips from Charlie Kaufman

From 2012, we gathered up some of Charlie Kaufman's filmmaking and screenwriting lessons. Read More

Craig Mazin Explains How the Screenwriting Industry Got So Depressing

The Writers Guild of America’s latest survey of screenwriters [PDF] shows that the world of storytelling isn’t that sunny. From… Read More

WGA Claims Working Conditions For Screenwriters Have Worsened

Citing late payments and a general feeling that giving away some rewrite work for free is necessary to compete, the… Read More

Joss Whedon’s ‘Avengers’ Screenwriting Hurdle? Too Many Characters

It’s always refreshing to hear a filmmaker talk candidly about the concerns and difficulties of creating something as large as,… Read More

Editor’s Blog: The Devil’s Adjective

This is my public retraction: Josh Olson is not an asshole.It’s a Saturday afternoon in March, and I’m sitting in historic… Read More