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Directed by Marielle Heller, the new film Nightbitch stars Amy Adams as a stay-at-home mother who’s losing her dang mind. After giving up a fulfilling (though not necessarily lucrative) career as an artist, she now focuses fulltime on her husband and...
Big Break Winners Sell True-Life Adventure Script ‘Faster Than Horses’
British writers Chris and Michael Mul, known as the Mul Brothers in the screenwriting world, have some fantastic news: their Big Break-winning screenplay, Faster Than Horses, is in pre-production with director James Erskine (Shooting for Socrates), p...
Write On: 'The Order' Writer Zach Baylin
“I find action scenes really hard to write, I usually save them for the end. I need to get very caffeinated and then just try and get into the adrenaline of what they should feel like. With this [film] in particular, those robberies and the heist… I ...
Write On: TV Writing with Laura Eason
“About 12 years ago, I had my very first meeting to staff. It was a show being run by a playwright named Beau Willimon and he’d done one season of a show that hadn’t dropped yet and they were going to do this crazy new model where the whole season wa...
Write On: 'Colin From Accounts' Co-Creators Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer
“We never wanted to make a show about dogs. We wanted to make a show about people. And then secondary to that, people who love dogs. We made sure we had some of Colin [the dog, in season two], like there’s that lovely episode in seven where Gordon be...
Write On: 'A Real Pain' with Writer/Director Jesse Eisenberg
“What I wanted to do with this movie was take this interesting relationship that I have been exploring over the course of my writing, over 20 years, and this dynamic, and set it against the backdrop of something so objectively worse than anything the...
Write On: 'Three Women' Creator Lisa Taddeo
“One of the things that I really wanted to focus on, and I felt it immediately after meeting Lina the housewife in Indiana [played by Betty Gilpin in the show], whose husband no longer wanted to kiss her on the mouth, I felt like this woman was as im...
Write On: Screenwriting Coach Lee Jessup & Literary Manager Jeff Portnoy
“The streaming bubble finally popped, and I think the tip of the spear that popped it was the double strikes we had last year and now we’re calling it the great contraction. It’s a really tough time for up-and-coming writers to break in. It’s tough f...
Write On: 'Here' Screenwriter Eric Roth
“I think [ Here] has some of the imagination of Forrest Gump, but it’s not Forrest Gump. It’s a different animal. I mean, it has the same kind of humanity to it, which is what I’m pretty good at,” says Eric Roth about his latest film Here, co-written...