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Jurassic World: Dominion’s Writers on Crafting Powerful, High Stakes Action Sequences

It’s hard to believe that Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park hit theaters way back in 1993, terrifying and inspiring a whole new generation of paleontologists and young dinosaur enthusiasts. Three decades later it seems we still ...

Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellows on his Writing Process and the Inspiration for his Strong Female Characters

  If you’re like me and can’t get enough of Julian Fellowes’ female-driven family dramas, you most likely gobbled up each delicious episode of The Gilded Age on HBO and can’t wait for season two. But as good as the American-set ...

INTERVIEW: Writer of THE LOST CITY

The Lost City is an adventure rom-com about disenchanted romance novelist, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) who's indulging her publicist by going on a book tour with her male cover model, Alan (Channing Tatum). When the hunky himbo gets more ...

Aaron Sorkin’s Inventive Structure for Being the Ricardos Raises the Stakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWOCH8CPhA When it comes to telling stories of real people, Aaron Sorkin knows a thing or two. Not only did he win the Oscar for writing The Social Network (2010), based on Mark Zuckerberg, the WGA recently named ...

Spencer Writer Steven Knight Creates a Nightmarish Fairytale to Tell Diana’s Story

Spencer, the new biopic about Princess Diana, opens with Diana (Kristen Stewart) driving alone in a little green sports car along a rural road in the English countryside. She’s lost. So lost, she decides to stop in at a local fish and chips ...

Real Women Have Curves Showcased at the Museum of Motion Pictures

The recently opened Academy Museum for Motion Pictures reworks the old May Co. building at the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire in Los Angeles, transforming the four-story space into a film-lover’s paradise. It has gorgeous theatres and carefu...

Queenpins Writers Balance Comedic Tone with Real-Life Drama in Coupon Caper

  Queenpins is a quirky crime comedy inspired by a trio of women who made millions of dollars in an elaborate coupon scam. Married writer/director team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly have a background in documentaries and journalism so ...

The Eyes of Tammy Faye Screenwriter on Writing in a No-Judgement Zone

If you lived through the 80s, you no doubt remember the larger-than-life televangelist power couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they were a force of nature. Tammy Faye was known for her clownish makeup and puppet shows; ...

Jungle Cruise Writers Take Inspiration from WWI, Suffragettes and Old-Fashioned Romance

  Jungle Cruise is a delightful thrill ride down the Amazon River and stars Emily Blunt as researcher Dr. Lily Houghton who’s on a quest to find the fabled Tears of the Moon – a plant native to the Amazon jungle that is said to have ...

Black Widow Writer on Making the Story an ‘Emotional investigation of Natasha Romanoff.’

There are NO spoilers here for Black Widow, but if you haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame, you'll want to see it before reading this interview. Remember summer blockbusters? After nearly a year and a half of dark theaters due to the ...

Three Old-School Ways to Write Better Dialogue

Non-writers often say to me: dialogue should be easy. We all talk, right? What’s so difficult about writing it down? Those of us who have actually tried to craft a scene know better. As noted novelist Thomas Mann once said: “A writer is someone ...

Want to Ramp Up the Emotional Tension in Your Story? Try This

One of the most important elements of any story is the emotional tension -- it’s the stuff that makes audiences cry, scream, gasp, and swoon. When you ask most people what their favorite movie is, they often give an emotional reason for loving it. ...
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