The Script Contest Compendium
Mark Kratter kept placing in screenplay
contests, with his success directly leading
to his new job as an in-demand
Hollywood screenwriter.
Grant Boucher makes the transition
from visual effects to romantic
comedy writer-director with his
first film, Journies.
An editor at Us Weekly hits the big time
with not one, but two six-figure deals
in a two-month span.
Writer-actor-director-producer Scott
Caan takes a moment on the eve of the
release of his third produced screenplay
to reflect on his process for the very
first time.
TV vet Justin Adler (Futurama, Better Off
Ted) mines laughs out of a tough spec
market with The Escort.
Writer-director team Brian Koppelman and
David Levien (Knockaround Guys, Ocean's
Thirteen) admit that writing is never easy,
but it's the key that opens the door to a
satisfying filmmaking career.
The Speck Market
Nope, that's not a typo. Writers everywhere
were hoping that 2010 would bring about
a resurgence in the spec screenplay
marketplace. So far, it's not so good.
BY JIM CIRILE
Pixar's Emotional Core:
The Secret to Successful Storytelling
BY KARL IGLESIAS
In the midst of writing an epic battle between
vampires and werewolves, Melissa Rosenberg
fights her own battle against internal demons
and the overwhelming expectations of
a global fan base.
BY ADAM STOVALL
Writer-director Michael Patrick King ignores
the naysayers and travels the globe to
bring Sex and the City 2 to the screen.
BY JENELLE RILEY
Nine years in the making, Rodrigo Garcia's
study of parent-child relationships reveals how
he's evolved as a writer during the long
creative time, incorporating lessons the
Nine Lives scribe learned along the way.
BY PETER DEBRUGE
Italian director Luca Guadagnino is hardly the
first filmmaker to call Tilda Swinton his muse,
though chances are none of the subversive
British actress' other collaborators have taken
her words so seriously.
BY PETER DEBRUGE
Nicholas Stoller has written on beloved
TV series and big studio comedies, but
he faced his greatest challenge when his
harshest critic became his director.
BY ADAM STOVALL
Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke take the
reins of the beloved franchise for its
fourth -- and final -- installment.
BY DANNY MUNSO
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Proving that clothes make the man, the
screenwriter of Tropic Thunder casts off
his comedy threads to turn the Iron
Man franchise into an arms race of
armored battlesuits.
BY PETER CLINES
Writer-director Neil Jordan set out to tell a
postmodern fairy tale, armed only with a
drowning girl, a small town and a lot of
questions. He learned that the key
difference between fantasy and reality
lies in one's perception.
BY ADAM STOVALL
It took seven years and multiple writers to
turn the popular "Prince of Persia" video
game series into a potential summer
blockbuster. Will screenwriters Boaz Yakin,
Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard finally unleash
the first great video game movie with
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time?
BY DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON
Three comic writers expand a recurring
Saturday Night Live sketch into a feature
film and manage to do it without having
the main character blow himself up
90 times.
BY PETER CLINES
Horror legend George Romero brings his
classic undead creations to the screen
again. This time, however, the zombies
take a backseat to a story that's
more about partisan arguments and
long-standing feuds.
BY PETER CLINES
A bullet in the brain and countless other ideas
collected over a decades-long collaboration
between director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and
Amélie scribe Guillaume Laurant came
together to create the duo's latest
"live cartoon."
BY PETER DEBRUGE
If you're in trouble, if you need help -- and
if you can find them -- maybe you can ask
Brian Bloom and Joe Carnahan about writing...
The A-Team.
BY PETER CLINES
Writer-director Dagur Kári works the fringes
of society in The Good Heart.
BY SEAN KENNELLY