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Yesterday IFP’s Script to Screen conference took place at the 92YTribeca in New York City, and I was lucky enough to be there. During the “Writers’ Roundtable” panel, which featured the ...

Following on from the Top 10 Screenwriting Tips from Script to Screen post, I thought I’d write a companion piece on pitching, as Saturday’s Script to Screen conference also featured “Pitch ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts fueling awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Netflix’s stop-motion animated ...

Though many have noted how much of the footage from the teasers & trailers didn’t make it into the final film — an intentional move by Anderson and editor Leslie Jones to give of the flavor of the ...

Amidst the ongoing flurry of debate over Quentin Tarantino‘s spaghetti western “Django Unchained,” one can at least declare safely that the hints to the final product on screen were always present.

My marker of a fantastic film is when I leave the theater without any clue of the current time of day or what responsibilities I left behind when I walked into the building three hours prior. Lately I ...

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 ...

While Hollywood makes hundreds of films every year, there are some scripts with tremendous promise that – whether due to a lack of commercial appeal or poor timing – never get made despite being ...