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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most biopics persuade you to empathize with the main character. But as actress-turned-writer/director Kristen Stewart ...

Maybe you’re thinking about writing a screenplay, but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re interested in following in the footsteps of writer-directors such as Mindy Kaling or Jordan Peele.

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 ...

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 ...

Tony Gilroy feared releasing the scripts to the 'Star Wars' series to avoid them being consumed by generative AI models—but one of the finest hours of 'Andor' has had its screenplay released. Reading ...