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Tech Tip: ScriptNotes in the Navigator

August 23, 2019

Of all the features in Final Draft 11 designed to help you track, brainstorm, bookmark and edit your story’s ideas, ScriptNotes may be the most obvious; annotating a script is probably as old as the craft itself. New ideas, edits, questions, links to...

André Øvredal Blends His Sense of Reality with GDT's Adaptation of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

August 22, 2019

Before Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, André Øvredal was relatively unknown. With just a handful of low-budget films—mostly in the horror-mystery realm—to his name, like The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Tunnelen, the Norwegian writer-director caught th...

Rising Through the Ranks: Myles Reid

August 21, 2019

Myles Reid is working tirelessly to rise through the ranks in Hollywood. While the 32-year-old moved to Los Angeles in 2011 to follow his dream of becoming a showrunner, he didn’t fully realize his dream was a viable option. Reid grew up in Salisbury...

Write On: #BeTheChange with Writer-Director-Producer Micho Rutare

August 20, 2019

Writer-director-producer Micho Rutare discusses his deep note trailer for THX, how he broke into the industry, how his background has affected his career and much more.

Good Boys' Opening Weekend Subverts Expectations

August 20, 2019

It doesn't seem natural to view a medium-budget studio comedy as an underdog, but that's exactly the category Good Boys was in as it headed into the weekend. In fact, many thought it might get out-grossed by the action flick Fast & Furious Presen...

All The Write Moves: 'The Kitchen'

August 19, 2019

There’s a natural tendency among aspiring screenwriters to seek guidance and inspiration only from critically acclaimed and/or financially successful films and TV shows. Yet it’s just as important for new scribes to study films that don’t connect com...

The Fast Five: It’s a Small World After All as Disney Takes Over Television

August 19, 2019

Do you like Disney? I sure hope so, because one day, there will be nothing but Disney. It will eventually own us all. There was so much fun Disney news that AMC merging with AMC was barely a blip—a story which is only the second largest and most-conf...

Five Types of Screenwriting Paralysis

August 16, 2019

Tech Tip: Reformatting

August 16, 2019

Sometimes paragraphs in Final Draft are inadvertently misformatted – Action paragraphs mistakenly render as character names, Scene Headings look like Transitions, lines of dialogue look like Parentheticals.