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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Bring your EpiPen because ‘Yellowjackets’ has a sting you won't forget
Yellowjackets is familiar with its "Lord of the Flies" vibes, while also being wholly unique. It’s a mash-up of tones making for a wild ride each episode that's binge-able, funny, makes you want to dance, and then barf in the corner. Not to mention t...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How ‘The Tender Bar’ creates a boy’s coming-of-age story around a local bar
It’s no surprise that The Tender Bar — the story of the book's author, J.R. Moehringer — actually became a published memoir because according to that memoir, there were plenty of people in his life who told him he should do it.
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut, 'The Lost Daughter'
Photograph: Netflix The Lost Daughter, the first in what is likely to become a larger Maggie Gyllenhaal directing canon, delves into things women don’t normally talk about. Motherhood is not always all it’s cracked up to be, and in pre-Instagram days...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How ‘The King’s Man’ weaves history and fiction to tell an origin story
About seven years ago, for those unfamiliar with the comic book, the world was introduced to the Kingsman: a secret spy agency that quietly handles some of the world’s most vicious threats from some of the worst criminal masterminds. It started with ...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Nicolas Cage is full of empathetic quiet rage in 'Pig'
Pig created quite the stir this year. With its strange premise: Nicolas Cage plays a hermit in the woods who is forced out of hiding to recoup a stolen truffle-hunting pig, one may expect from the trailer they are getting John Wick meets Tarantino, b...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: How ‘Nightmare Alley’ creates a mind-bending neo-noir thriller
Nightmare Alley is one of those movies that keeps you guessing from the first frame. Essentially everything about the movie is both familiar and completely foreign to the audience, making it an enticing and curiosity-filled ride. Set at the end of th...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Licorice Pizza' is weird, wonderful, and full of hope
Licorice Pizza is about as Paul Thomas Anderson a flick as they come. Anderson somehow makes the sprawling San Fernando Valley feel manageable as kid actor and entrepreneur Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) makes his part of town a little smaller by fr...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'
Did you ever wish there was a Christmas film in which Santa Claus is kidnapped by Martians, rocketed off to Mars, and inevitably gives everyone on the planet the Christmas spirit?
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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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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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