Waiters, personal trainers and, more significantly, thousands of people whose scripts actually get produced owe a lot to the Write Brothers. Celebrating its 30th anniversary recently, the Burbank ...

As a screenwriter, I can tell you that writing an adapted screenplay is no easy feat. You have to seek out the heart and soul of the source material and then be merciless when it comes to bending and ...

A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

Amazon wants your screenplay, and it’s trying to make it easier for you to create it. The company said today that it is broadening its script-submission policy and also introduced formatting software ...

What is screenwriting software supposed to do? The simplest answer we could think of is: make our lives easier. Peter J. Haas provides a round up of the more popular screenwriting software packages ...

A published screenplay is a different beast -- though one no less fantastical -- than full-length novel. Instead of inspiring readers’ imaginations about the worlds they’re meant to be depicting, a ...

A screenwriting course led by Bermudian filmmaker Lucinda Spurling is set to begin next month. The course, organised by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, is intended to help participants develop their ...

What do you do with a case full of strange creatures in a new place? Misplace it, of course! At least that is what Newt Scamander does in “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” by J.K. Rowling. If ...