Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length screenplays that weren’t the product of a ...

Quilty, which makes an AI screenplay-analysis tool, landed a deal with Giovanni Entertainment, first partnership with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

As exemplified by aspiring actor Mia’s multiple messy attempts in Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” reading a script in preparation for an audition can be overwhelming. Though it will never be easy, ...

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 ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season with Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor‘s impressive feature writing and ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season continues with the tense dramatic comedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, writer-director Mary Bronstein‘s ...

Start with the script. That's the most basic advice that any film class is predicated on when it comes to making movies. There have been a fair number of films made without traditional or fully-formed ...

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 ...

William likes taking edibles, watching movies with his dogs, and then writing about those movies, because what else is there to do while the world burns? Start with the script. That's the most basic ...