Director Pradeep Advaitham fails to bring the revered Bhairanpally Sayuda Poratam revolution to life, largely due to a ...

First released in 1997, “Boogie Nights” earned three Oscar nominations, including supporting turns for Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore and a screenwriting nod for Anderson. The movie’s sprawling cast ...

Screenwriting apps offer formatted tools, story-structure helpers and collaboration features. Look for industry-standard formatting, cloud collaboration, and mobile/desktop support when choosing an ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has pre-emptively acquired rights to Academy Award nominated writer Eric Heisserer's debut novel, Simultaneous. Producers will include Heisserer and Carmen Lewis under ...

The veteran scribe is launching a new competition — Gauntlet — designed to help promising spec scripts find their way to the screen. By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors Leave it to Shane ...

The first rule of screenwriting is that it’s always formatted in 12-point Courier font—as if ejected from the typewriter of a gumshoe detective. Beyond this, there are no rules. There are no necessary ...

A kidnapped girl, a missing dog, exotic fishes that get stolen, a feared Mexican mafia don and a couple of smaller dons, a psychopath, a bumbling policeman, and a pet detective. One would need this ...

Bengaluru-based software developer Prashanth Udupa created Scrite during the 2020 lockdown after experimenting with screenwriting as a hobby. He found that most available apps didn’t support Indian ...

EXCLUSIVE: Stage 32 is launching a Global Screenwriting Contest Hub, bringing together dozens of writing competitions from around the world into one place including Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying contests ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List will open submissions for the 2025 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting via its website at 9 a.m. PDT on May 15. The widely known ...

Every Tuesday morning, a dozen students walk into a classroom in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and are treated to pastries courtesy of their professors. But beyond baked goods, students in ...

Film Independent has named Daniel Barosa, Aron Kantor, Satinder Kaur, Nina Ljeti, Quintessence McGee, Natália Sellani and Honora Talbott as its seven screenwriters selected for its 27th annual ...