Screenwriting 101: How to write a feature length script in a week

David Wain and Ken Marino break down how they went from having "no concept" to a completed first draft of "Gail Daughtry and ...
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How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention

Following this humiliation, Europe issued sweeping sanctions against Russia and joined the United States in offering extensive support to Ukraine. Most of the continent’s countries severed almost all ...

Oppenheimer: How Nolan's First-Person Script Avoided A 1947 Film's POV Mistakes

By doing this, "Oppenheimer" director Christopher Nolan avoided making the same mistakes that the makers of the 1947 noir ...
Plainview Herald

Behind the boom: How crews build a Fourth of July fireworks show

The sound of generators whirring filled the parking lot as food trucks began setting up in preparation for the Fourth of July celebration at Kidsville Park. Soon, that whirring became background noise ...

Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3’ Taps Gary Dauberman to Pen Script

The writer behind the beloved 'It' and the 'Annabelle' movies is coming in to bring some fresh blood to the hit Blumhouse Atomic Monster video game movie franchise. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer ...
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Telling children to 'write properly' doesn't help them write.

In a recent class, I covered methods for teaching composition. I conducted a simple experiment there. I said this to the students: Suppose I read the compositions you wrote and return them to you. At ...
Comic Book Movie

Wonder Woman: Ana Nogueira Confirms She's Writing Script For DCU Reboot; Explains Her Approach

Last year, The Wrap reported that Supergirl writer Ana Nogueira had been tapped to pen the script for the new DC Studios Wonder Woman movie. This news was never made official (James Gunn stayed silent ...
IGN

Seth Rogen Tells Filmmakers Using AI to Write Scripts to 'Go Do Something Else'

Seth Rogen has pushed back on the use of AI in movies, telling writers using the technology for their scripts to "go do something else." "I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
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How to Write a Plural Last Name—Including One Ending in “S”

If you were to send my family a letter, you’d have no problem writing out the envelope. My surname is Andersen, so the etiquette rules for writing a plural last name are pretty simple: Just add s! But ...