“I think what Tim [Burton] does is he’s always trying to simplify. That’s the essence of a classic filmmaker. People think he’s wild and crazy and does all these things. His movies are brilliantly composed frames and he’s always looking for simplicit...

“I think that Sunny [the robot], as a character, is kind of emblematic of this conundrum we have with A.I. In one scene she is cute and warm and is serving Suzie's [Rashida Jones] emotional needs and is brimming with potential. And that's really enti...

Dave and John Chernin are a writer-director team best known for creating the show The Mick starring Kaitlin Olson which ran for two seasons. The duo cut their comedy teeth while writing for the show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia that's going into...

Almost all the characters [in Fallout, the TV show] are brand new… We really took the world of Fallout that had been built up and iterated upon by other video game writers over the years and we wanted to do our own version of it rather than retell an...

At the core of Lady in the Lake is a noir mystery about the death of a young black woman in 1960s Baltimore. But the seven-part AppleTV+ show is so much more than a straightforward whodunit. Inspired by the 2019 book of the same name by Laura Lippman...

Writer/director James Cox has had an incredibly successful career as a filmmaker, making movies such as Wonderland, Straight A’s, and Billionaire Boys Club. While fairy tales can come true, the film business can be a rollercoaster even for the most b...

The film Ghost (1990) is one of the most iconic love stories ever put on film. Who can forget Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore sensually touching fingers through soft, buttery clay as the song “Unchained Melody” is soulfully crooned by The Righteous Bro...

There’s a lot to consider when thinking about how your screenplay will be received by a reader. A producer may consider budget, a director might think about how the script translates visually and a screenwriting competition judge will most likely be ...

“We were all six or seven years old when [the first Karate Kid movie] came out. So all of us saw it in the theater and I think for all of us, it was probably the first time any of us had seen a movie where there was such an amazing twist that happene...