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Write On with ‘Hip Hop Family Christmas’ Co-Writer Saeed Crumpler – Part I
In this special 2-part episode of Write On we talk to Flatbush Misdemeanors staff writer and co-writer of Hip Hop Family Christmas Saeed Crumpler about going from rapper to screenwriter: "I had to make a change; I always loved film, and I just went b...
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The Novice' is a taught tale on American hustle
The Novice is a genre-bending sports film, which puts women front and center in the world of rowing while also delivering a psychological thriller-style gut punch. Isabelle Fuhrman’s tortured Alex Dall is a captivating character study of the college ...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Sorkin’s ‘Being the Ricardos’ focuses on Lucille Ball’s most stressful week
I Love Lucy and its follow-up The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour were such landmark programs that despite the final episode airing over 60 years ago, and the likelihood that the majority of Americans have probably never watched an episode, there are memorable...
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Spec Spotlight: Joe Russo on 'The Last Will & Testament of Charles Abernathy'
Screenwriter Joe Russo says his latest project, Netflix's The Last Will & Testament of Charles Abernathy, was "born out of necessity."
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It Builds Character Part II: Using your personal story to inform character
Martin Scorsese famously said, “The films that I constantly revisited or saw repeatedly held up longer for me over the years not because of plot, but because of character.” Character is the reason we get attached to stories. From Luke Skywalker to Sh...
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Write On with 'Desus & Mero' Writer Robert Kornhauser
The late night TV writer talks to Write On about breaking in and his early inspirations: "I was kind of the weird kid who at, like, 11 was watching David Letterman… [the realization] came to me in my very early teens like, 'Oh, this guy's not just sa...
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‘Scrooged’: Lessons in turning a 180-year-old novella into a Christmas classic
I have an idea for a Christmas movie. A self-absorbed, penny-pinching individual is visited by ghosts who insist that if he doesn’t change his ways, he is destined to misery. Sound familiar?
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Jane Campion makes an anti-cowboy masterpiece with ‘The Power of the Dog’
American cowboy movies come with much swagger, often violence, and usually plenty of guns. Jane Campion’s newest, The Power of the Dog, however, is a taught thriller with often disturbing imagery, but almost none of the above. Instead, it centers aro...
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Rocky IV: Rocky Vs. Drago - The Ultimate Director's Cut' review: Stallone the director fights for Stallone the screenwriter
As an Italian-American screenwriter originally from Philadelphia, the Rocky films and Sylvester Stallone’s career have always been a source of inspiration for me. Most often discussed as an actor, then secondly as a director, Stallone’s success and s...
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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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