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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How Kenneth Branagh turns his tumultuous childhood in Belfast into a personal narrative

December 3, 2021

Stories of children navigating their way through tumultuous times can give fresh perspective to the realities of the world. In Belfast, the audience gets to see the world at the beginning of the three-decade-long civil war between unionists who wante...

Write On with 'One Shot' Co-Writer/Director James Nunn

December 3, 2021

An elite squad of Navy SEAL's, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner. Co-Writer/Director James Nunn talks to Write On about what it ...

A day in the life of Dolph Lundgren: The actor and director discusses his new film 'Castle Falls'

December 3, 2021

Dolph Lundgren is a busy man these days.

History of TV: Peeling back the layers that made 'Dexter' such a guilty pleasure

December 2, 2021

With the return of everyone’s favorite serial killer in a new limited series (that feels weird to write and definitely says something about culture at large, though we’ll get to that in a minute), fans everywhere are getting the finale they always wa...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘tick, tick...BOOM!’ hits a little harder in the wake of Sondheim's death

November 30, 2021

Jonathan Larson (played by a pitch-perfect Andrew Garfield) and Stephen Sondheim (played by an empathetic Bradley Whitford) were two pillars of the musical theater world. The main difference: Larson was robbed of his chance to be as prolific as Sondh...

Write On with 'Zeros and Ones' Writer-Director Abel Ferrara

November 29, 2021

A soldier has been tasked with preventing an imminent terrorist threat to the Vatican in this action thriller from filmmaker Abel Ferrara starring Ethan Hawke. "[The film is a] real inside take on the CIA but it's also the understanding of truth,” Ab...

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’: The sequel we’ve all been waiting for?

November 24, 2021

It’s not likely that during the shooting of Ghostbusters in 1984 that the cast and crew realized they were creating something spectacular that would spawn generations of fans, the creation of three sequels, send careers into superstardom, and inspire...

Write On with Coach Carole Kirschner - The Networking System

November 24, 2021

Screenwriting career coach and guru Carole once again joins us on the podcast to talk about her system of networking as a screenwriter: "This business is based on relationships, and it's risk-averse. They want to hire people they know or hire people ...

‘C’mon C’mon' is an intimate portrait of the mysteries and questions children so often bring to life

November 24, 2021

‘C’mon C’mon,’ is one of those rare dramedies audiences don’t receive often enough. It’s a movie about life, love and figuring things out along the way. It’s also a perfect piece for distribution from A24 (who brings you such fare as Euphoria and The...