How do you sell a spec script in Hollywood? It used to be that a writer would have to acquire representation, an agent or a manager, who could send the spec material out into the marketplace and hope a studio or production company would make an ...
The beloved brainiac dog of the 60s, Mr. Peabody, returns for his very own feature film along with his son Sherman. The silly time travel movie with a heart-warming father and son story is not the typical subject matter for TV writer Craig Wright, ...
The beloved brainiac dog of the 60s, Mr. Peabody, returns for his very own feature film along with his son Sherman. The silly time travel movie with a heart-warming father and son story is not the typical subject matter for TV writer Craig Wright, ...
Every have a friend in your group who was so annoying that you didn’t know if you could be friends anymore? Writer/director Rob Pearlstein has. And he wrote a movie about it.
“The truth is I have more than one [Barry],” said Pearlstein. “I ...
Writer Joe Weisberg knows a lot about being a spy. He used to be one. The former CIA officer is now the showrunner of the hit drama The Americans.
Set in the 1980s during the height of the Cold War, The Americans centers on a married couple ...
How do you go from script to producer to actors...and end up on Comedy Network? Those are a few of the questions I ask ScreenwritingU Alum Anthony Giunta about his first movie -- that came from his first script!
We also talked about what made ...
Saving Mr. Banks is the movie that no one ever thought Disney would make – the real story of how Mary Poppins came to be a beloved children’s film. The classic film about the magic nanny has warmed hearts for a generation, but the story of how ...
When screenwriter Craig Borten first read about an AIDS patient who was selling black market prescription drugs to other patients in need of alternative medical assistance, he was instantly intrigued.
This subsection of the AIDS culture, known as ...
Romantic comedies usually end with a wedding. Best Man Down starts with one, but not everything goes well for the couple after they walk down the aisle. First off, their best man drops dead shortly after the reception. That’s a left turn we ...
He writes animated movies (Cars, Cars 2, Tangled, and Bolt). He writes indie comedies (Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Guilt Trip). And he also does Christmas, too (Fred Claus). Is there anything that screenwriter Dan Fogelman can’t do? Apparently ...
By Jenna Milly
Those familiar with eccentric WikiLeaks inventor Julien Assange know that writing a movie about him would be an enormous endeavor to say the least. Screenwriter Josh Singer got his fill when asked to adapt two books, hundreds of ...
Our ScreenwritingU Alumni just came back from the InkTip Pitch Summit and had a lot of success. Every day right now, more script requests are rolling in for the group. But one person stood out. J.T. Quinn
Going in with 12 scripts, J.T. and ...