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Afro Horror: 3 Tips for Writing Tasteful Sex Scenes in Horror
Some of us have done it and others are waiting. Most of us want to do it, but damn this quarantine. Yes, I am indeed talking about… Sex. What does this have to do with horror, you ask? Well…everything! Sex has been a long-used device in horror and ar...
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Hunter Hunter' Writer-Director Shawn Linden on the Horror of Battling Nature
Final Draft spoke with writer-director Shawn Linden on his survival-horror film, "Hunter Hunter" starring Devon Sawa and Nick Stahl. A fur-trapping family in the remote wilderness finds themselves in a battle with nature: a hungry and dangerous wolf.
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Skylines' Breaks Barriers in Sci-Fi Screenwriting
Skylines — the third installment of a sci-fi action trilogy whose creation spans the last decade and was made on a relatively small budget — breaks barriers when it comes to writing sci-fi with heavy special effects for the big screen, and also bends...
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Director John Suits On Sci-Fi, Editing and His New Film 'Breach'
Director John Suits opened up about his current project, Breach, starring Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane and Rachel Nichols. Written by Edward Drake and Corey Large, this sci-fi action film takes us on a journey through deep space, where aboard an interst...
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The Christmas Movie Market
If you read my last article on Christmas movies, you’ll know that I love this time of year, love writing about this time of year, and love watching Christmas movies. I don’t watch them all. How could you? There are so many.
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History of TV: Why ‘The Wire’ is Still Relevant Television Today
The American dream at its best: enterprising drug lords go up against the Baltimore Police Department in the first season of HBO’s The Wire. Right out of the starting gate, the crime drama sets up the whole series through a seemingly random conversat...
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Write On with 'Archenemy' Writer-Director Adam Egypt Mortimer
Archenemy co-writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer discusses his approach to working in different genres, the tricky balance of withholding and disclosing information to the audience, and more. In the movie, a teen meets a mysterious man played by ...
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Director April Mullen on Independent Film & 'Wander'
Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, and Heather Graham star in April Mullen's new edge-of-your-seat thriller, Wander, in which a paranoid private investigator with a troubled past is hired to investigate a suspicious death in the town of Wander. He soon ...
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The 5 Things You Apparently Don’t Need to Make a Christmas Classic
Can you create a Christmas classic without Santa Claus? Or even snow? Apparently, you can.
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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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