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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: HBO Max’s ‘Hacks’ is a darkly funny showbiz story
Hacks is a bit meta, but that’s okay. On the surface, it’s about a young female comedy writer who got cancelled on Twitter and is too stubborn to think she can still learn about comedy until she meets an older female stand-up who needs help remaining...
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Side hustle drama 'Take Out Girl' dispels the myth of the model minority
TAKE OUT GIRL is about a twenty-something girl Tera (Hedy Wong), who drops out of college to help her single mother run a struggling Chinese restaurant. Feeling imprisoned by poverty and a lack of options, Tera takes a dangerous job for a drug lord i...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Billy Crystal’s new ‘Here Today’ on aging
It’s been 20 years since Billy Crystal has written or directed a film (America’s Sweethearts and 61*, respectively) but it took watching an old friend regale David Letterman with a tale on TV that inspired the new film Here Today.
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High Ground' shows the richness and brutality of Australia's history
The origins of High Ground are found in the landscapes of Northern Australia where its director, Stephen Maxwell Johnson, grew up, and therefore the story's time period and concept hold deep meaning for him.
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History of TV: Studying sci-fi with ‘The 100’
It’s been a while since we’ve gone dark in this space, so we’re going there this week with The 100. What I love about sci-fi so much is its ability to deal with real-world issues through the filter of otherworldliness. The moral and ethical lessons a...
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Finding You' feels like a classic destination romance with some fun twists
Finding You originally stemmed from the 2011 novel There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. Director Brian Baugh fell in love with the book after one of the film's executive producers brought him the novel. Baugh said he and the EP were both super exc...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Wrath of Man'
Wrath of Man is Guy Ritchie's latest film, co-written with Ivan Atkison and Marn Davies and based on the 2004 French film Cash Truck by Nicolas Boukhrief and Éric Besnard, it also sees Ritchie collaborating again with action star Jason Statham who ca...
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The Reckoning' highlights the importance of feminism in horror
Disclaimer: I’m a fan of Neil Marshall’s prior work; specifically, the feature The Descent. For me, it’s brutal in all the right ways.
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Locked In' with writer-director Carlos Gutierrez
Mena Suvari stars as Maggie, a single mom of a teenage daughter who has taken one wrong turn after another, leading her to live hand-to-mouth in a rundown motel, working at a self-storage facility. Living in fear and desperate for money, Maggie makes...
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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