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Write On with 'RESPECT' Screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson
Tracey talks to Write On about tackling the life story of music icon Aretha Franklin: "I began to live, breathe, eat Aretha 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I listened to nothing but her music, everything I read was about her; I just completely sub...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How the final season of 'Pen15' encapsulates the existential crisis that is growing up
Pen15 entered the scene with a huge hook: 30-something actors would play middle schoolers, surrounded by actual middle schoolers. Yet creators and stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle quickly make you forget the hook as their performances are so engros...
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Rising Through the Ranks: Welcome to the world of Jennifer Kim
Jennifer Kim’s unique brand of tragicomedy infused with heart recently landed her management with Industry Entertainment. Her specialty? Writing rebellious AAPI female characters who try to take down the system — but in a lighthearted way. Her writin...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How Kenneth Branagh turns his tumultuous childhood in Belfast into a personal narrative
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...
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Write On with 'One Shot' Co-Writer/Director James Nunn
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 ...
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A day in the life of Dolph Lundgren: The actor and director discusses his new film 'Castle Falls'
Dolph Lundgren is a busy man these days.
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History of TV: Peeling back the layers that made 'Dexter' such a guilty pleasure
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...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘tick, tick...BOOM!’ hits a little harder in the wake of Sondheim's death
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...
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Write On with 'Zeros and Ones' Writer-Director Abel Ferrara
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...
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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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