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The Weekend Movie Takeaway: November 14, 2018

November 15, 2018

Universal Pictures jump-started the holiday family movie season over the weekend with The Grinch, which earned a robust $66 million at the box office, proving audience goodwill for Dr. Seuss characters isn't going anywhere (despite that nobody has pa...

Write on with David E. Talbert

November 15, 2018

Acclaimed playwright and filmmaker David E. Talbert discusses his 25-year career in theater, honing his cinematic skills by learning on the job, and how his experiences growing up influence the stories he tells. David is currently developing an origi...

All the Write Moves: 'Can You Ever Forgive Me'

November 12, 2018

Simultaneously delicate and tough, Can You Ever Forgive Me? introduces viewers to Lee Israel, a real-life figure who made her name as a biographer before starting a clandestine new career by forging letters credited to Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and...

Write What Makes You Nervous: Suspiria Writer David Kajganich's Advice on Screenwriting

November 10, 2018

Screenwriter David Kajganich re-imagined 1977 cult classic Suspiria as a wickedly twisted supernatural thriller. The film writhes with suspense and engulfs audiences in the bewitching crimson coven of feminine fury inhabited by actors Tilda Swinton, ...

Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.

November 7, 2018

Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. knew he wanted to be “some sort of artist” growing up. He was a prose writer for years, then dabbled in photography and drawing before he even considered being a director. An avid movie fan since he was a kid, Corbine Jr. kn...

The Weekend Movie Takeaway: November 5, 2018

November 6, 2018

That Bohemian Rhapsody’s opening weekend brought in $51 million appears to demonstrate the resilience of a rock biopic that delivers the musical goods: Queen is about as strong a brand as exists within popular music, and love for the late Freddie Mer...

Write On with 'A Bread Factory' Writer-Director Patrick Wang

November 6, 2018

Acclaimed writer-director Patrick Wang discusses his transition from economy major at MIT to filmmaker, how he feels his way through the editing process to find structure in his scripts, and how he used the idea of community for the one-hundred speak...

All the Write Moves: 'Halloween'

November 5, 2018

Forty years after John Carpenter’s brilliantly minimalistic thriller Halloween introduced movie audiences to relentless murderer Michael Myers, the mask-wearing psychopath also known as “the shape” is back in another movie called Halloween. The new f...

Reclaiming the American Past, Part 2

November 5, 2018

WHERE ARE OUR JAMES GRAHAMS, WHEN WE NEED THEM? You probably don’t know the name of James Graham right now, though Americans are likely to become more familiar with him in a short time. He’s an extremely prolific and extremely successful playwright f...