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Are Your Scenes Boring? 8 Ways To Change That

  • Staff Writer
  • . November 6, 2024
Nothing makes a reader’s mind wander faster than a boring scene which makes them lose interest in your screenplay and scroll or flip through your pages without actively reading or engaging with them. Here are some creative ways to identify and even rectify that:1) Character StereotypesThe characters are a carbon copy of what aud...
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Creative Screenwriting
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Which Screenplay Should You Write Next? (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series What To Write:Based On Something Else3 Body Problem was based on an award-winning book series by Chinese sci-fi writer Cixin Liu. It took the science fiction market by storm and had a lot of people scrambling for the TV rights.Netflix won the most recent rights battle and released a succes...
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Script Review – 'Anora'

  • Tim Schildberger
  • .November 11, 2024
'Anora' – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has a script that isn’t as good as it could’ve been. [L-R] Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan and Mikey Madison as Ani in Anora (2024).  Courtesy of NeonAnora – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has a script that isn’t as good...
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Moviemaker
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30 Baby Boomers We Love

  • Sarah Druhan and Margeaux Sippell
  • .November 02, 2024
Baby boomers may get criticism from younger generations, but not these boomers. We love 'em.Tom HanksCredit: C/OYeah, you probably saw this one coming. Who doesn't love Tom Hanks? Born in 1956, smack dab in the heart of the Baby Boomer wave, Hanks is a magnificent actor who at the same time just feels like someone you could run ...
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Film Inquiry
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ISA TOP 25 SCREENWRITERS TO WATCH Interview With Adam Karlson

Each year, The International Screenwriters’ Association compiles a list of the 25 screenwriters to watch. This year, Film Inquiry is here to guide you through the incredible list of gifted individuals! Our next writer is Adam Karlson. Film Inquiry spoke with Adam about his writing process, the details of his script Choke, tips f...
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‘Dancing With the Stars’ Week 8: Chandler Kinney Earns First Two Perfect Scores of...

  • Sharon Knolle
  • .November 12, 2024
Note: This article contains spoilers for the Nov. 12 episode of “Dancing With the Stars.”“Dancing with the Stars” celebrated its 500th episode Tuesday night with the remaining six remaining couples “reinterpreting” past memorable dances with new choreography. Week 8 of Season 33 also saw the first perfect score of the season, ea...
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Would It Kill You To Smile 2? Writer/Director Returns With A Gorier Sequel

  • Staff Writer
  • . October 24, 2024
The premise of a trauma-driven supernatural entity infecting people and causing them to violently bludgeon themselves to death began in Parker Finn’s 2020 short film Laura Hasn’t Slept. It centers on the nightmares of Laura Weaver (Caitlin Stasey) featuring a smiling face, eventually forcing her into state of somniphobia (fear o...
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"How JT Mollner Used 'Halloween' to Inspire Horror Film 'Strange Darling'"

  • Staff Writer
  • . October 21, 2024
“Strange Darling came to me through an initial image that I saw of a woman running through the woods in distress,” says JT Mollner of his horror film that can be described as a mix of a bloody popcorn wild ride and art.“I’ve read countless stories about serial killers which gave me some inspiration to show a different side of th...
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The Trigger – More Than An Inciting Incident

  • James "Doc" Mason
  • . October 16, 2024
While even the non-writer will recognize that the climax is the character’s final battle, the end of the story, fewer know what to call the start of the story. Remember, there is no story without conflict. Therefore the story starts with a clear conflict. Writers will know the Inciting Incident or Inciting Event is often describ...
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Screenwriters Alfred Gough & Miles Millar Talk “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”

  • Staff Writer
  • . October 16, 2024
Beetlejuice was a playful foray into horror comedy in 1998 depicting the gentrification of family neighborhood Winter River with left-field visionary director Tim Burton at the helm. A follow up film was discussed for over three decades since Michael Keaton first exclaimed “It’s Showtime” as his iconic Betelgeuse character.After...
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CS MAGAZINE

What Is Contextual Writing? (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Context:Information DumpsMany times the issues I see in my students’ work are a result of lack of experience obviously. They don’t trust their writing or their audience, or have the skills needed to push out content when it’s needed to be heard by an audience. Consequently, they have info ...
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CS MAGAZINE

What Is Contextual Writing? (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Context:Context is a small word with massive implications. Almost nothing we write, script, novel, or article, is without context. Life itself is all about context – necessary information for it to be meaningful.If I say the score of a game was 5 – 2 and a ‘blowout,’ I’d have to provide co...
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9 Components Of The Perfect Logline (Part 2)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Logline:4) Triggering EventIn the logline, a triggering event describes the change in circumstances that creates the conflict to be resolved in the climax. Some call it the inciting incident or inciting event, others call it a catalyst. Whether a specific event, or the final straw in a seq...
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9 Components Of The Perfect Logline (Part 1)

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Logline:Many aspiring writers battle with loglines. Quite a few working writers struggle, too. Afterall, it’s a different skill from writing a script. The good news is crafting a logline becomes much easier when the writer knows what to include and, more importantly, what to leave on the c...
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SCRIPT MAGAZINE

Calling All Writers – Send Us Your Questions!

  • Script Magazine
  • . November 07, 2024
Do you have Post-it notes and random pieces of scratch paper scribbled with writerly unknowns strewn across your desk? Send your questions our way.CanvaAs 2024 inches closer to 2025 (already?!), many of us writers entered this year feeling overwhelmed with unknowns, doubts, and questions about the state of our writing practice, ...
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A Masterful Fugue of Dramatic Tension: Virgil Williams Discusses ‘The Piano Lesson’

  • Sonya Alexander
  • . November 06, 2024
Virgil Williams discusses breaking down August Wilson’s exceptional and intense play. Playwright August Wilson penned some of the most important creative works chronicling Black life during the 20th century. The Piano Lesson is the fourth in a series of ten plays dubbed “American Century Cycle” or ‘The Pittsburgh Cycle” because ...
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Interview with 'Leap of Faith' Director Nicholas Ma

  • Susan Kouguell
  • . November 04, 2024
Filmmaker Nicholas Ma discusses the process behind making the documentary, from his collaboration with Morgan Neville, the writing process in editing, and discovering the through-line to tackling tough subjects with the pastors, and more. I had the pleasure to speak with award-winning director Nicholas Ma about his new documenta...
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Tools & Techniques on How to Write or Adapt a Novel for Screenwriters

  • The Writers Store
  • . November 01, 2024
November is the perfect month to take a look at your writing projects with a fresh perspective; learn the Tools & Techniques on How to Write or Adapt a Novel for Screenwriters today! Have you ever wondered whether the story you've been itching to share with the world should be a novel or a screenplay? This bundle is for any writ...
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11 Movie Motorcycles to Get Your Engines Revving

  • Deirdre McCarrick
  • . November 04, 2024
Lots of movie motorcycles have sped across the screen, but these are our favorites.The Harley in Girl on a MotorcycleCredit: C/OMarianne Faithfull and her Harley Electra Glide in Girl on a MotorcycleMarianne Faithfull lives fast and rides hard in the very 1968 British-French film Girl on a Motorcycle, in which she takes a Harley...
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Film Festival Alliance Releases Best Practices Guide for Film Festivals

  • Margeaux Sippell
  • . November 04, 2024
Film Festival Alliance has released a standardized guide of best practices for film festivals.Aimed at streamlining the film festival application process for filmmakers and at helping festivals adhere to shared guidelines, the guide is meant to facilitate better relationships between the festivals and the filmmakers who apply to...
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The 12 Best Cocky Blond Guys in ’80s Movies

  • MM Writers
  • . November 04, 2024
Cocky blond guys are a staple of '80s movies. Here are 12 of our favorites.Roy Stalin (played by Aaron Dozier in Better Off Dead)Credit: C/OThe cocky blond guy in an '80s movie is the too handsome, too perfect preppie, jock, bully or fighter pilot who offers himself up as a seemingly unbeatable rival for the protagonist. The qui...
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MOVIEMAKER

12 Poppin’ 2000s Movies Only Cool Kids Remember

  • Margeaux Sippell
  • . November 05, 2024
We all remember 2000s movie blockbusters, Pixar classics, and rom-coms that still play today. But here are some 2000s movies only cool kids remember.Not Another Teen Movie (2001)Not Another Teen Movie, Sony Pictures Releasing - Credit: C/OBefore he was Captain America, Chris Evans starred in this cheeky comedy drama as a high sc...
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FILM INQUIRY

Glasgow Film Festival 2024: THE G

There seems no end to the vulturous nature of late-stage capitalism. Just when it seems every crevice of society has been mined for content, a fresh new subject crops up waiting to be explored. In this wintery cold noir from Karl R. Hearne, the subject is elder care facilities and the way they’re used to exploit the elderly and ...
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FILM INQUIRY

SKIN DEEP: A Body Swap Romance Exploring The Modern “Self”

Skin Deep opens as a disoriented man totters through a bedroom. There’s a catatonic figure lying in the bed nearby as light streams through the window. His befuddlement is ours as well. It sets a perturbing mood against the Gregorian undertones of the music. There’s something strikingly beautiful in another subsequent image: a y...
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FILM INQUIRY

Scream Dreams Podcast Interview

In the world of horror podcasts, some can be a nightmare. Or, in the case of Scream Dreams, AMP’s podcast, the horrors are actual nightmares, as the podcast dives into them in a compelling and unique fashion. With a myriad of guests from within the horror genre, co-hosts Catherine Corcoran and James A Janisse interview and get i...
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FILM INQUIRY

TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR: A Lightning In A Bottle Cultural Phenomenon

In her ongoing quest for world domination, Taylor Swift made a quick detour at the gates of cinema last year with her uniquely marketed concert film. Being released in tandem with her ongoing Eras Tour, which the film documents, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was a box office juggernaut that defied expectations. And while the film ...
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THE WRAP

‘St. Denis Medical’ Creators Wanted to Tackle a ‘Non-Beautiful Grey’s Anatomy’

  • Kayla Cobb
  • . November 12, 2024
The world of medical TV shows is typically filled with gorgeous people swooping in to perform dangerous and daring operations as they dart from rare condition to in-office romance. That’s not “St. Denis Medical.” NBC’s latest comedy is more likely to feature two nurses feuding over a candy bar than pulling off a medical miracle....
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THE WRAP

Mike Pence Says He Is ‘Literally Praying’ Trump Doesn’t Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters Who Attacked Police

  • Sharon Knolle
  • . November 12, 2024
Mike Pence doesn’t approve of Donald Trump’s supposed plan to pardon Jan. 6 rioters and is “literally praying” that both the president-elect and his VP pick JD Vance honor their oaths when they take office.“I don’t think the president should pardon anyone who assaulted a police officer at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6,” th...

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