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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I'm trying to brainstorm a new spec, I like to read a bunch of scripts in the same genre I'm writing to see what the greats have to offer. Lately, I have been delving into outer space. Space is ...

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline’s annual Read the Screenplay series spotlighting awards season’s most talked-about scripts kicks off this year with Fair Play, Chloe Domont‘s debut feature that Netflix acquired ...

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After reading Mezrich’s 14-page book proposal, Sorkin crafted a 162-page script deconstructing the evolution of Facebook into the Internet’s most ubiquitous social-networking site. Why it might win: ...

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 ...

If you recognize that line, you know the film whose script the Writers Guild of America just voted as the best of the past 22 years. Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning Get Out tops the WGA‘s just-released ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...