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Bobby Farrelly Says Comedy is About Flawed Character and Surprising Your Audience
Bobby Farrelly, along with his brother Peter Farrelly, are known for their iconic comedies like There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, and Fever Pitch. These films have firmly established the brothers as one of America’s premiere comedy direc...
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‘Your Place or Mine’ Writer Aline Brosh McKenna on Creating Modern Romantic Leads
If you love writing romantic comedies, you’re in luck - they are making their way back to the audiences that adore them. While recent titles like Ticket to Paradise (starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney), The Lost City (starring Sandra Bullock) ...
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Writer Tony Basgallop On His Gripping New Series The Consultant
Creator and showrunner, Tony Basgallop, well known for his Apple+ series Servant, brings another engaging series to the screen with The Consultant starring Christoph Waltz, Brittany O’Grady and Nat Wolff.
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'Bones and All' Screenwriter David Kajganich on the many layers of collaboration in adaptations
In the center of Regan’s America, a father desperately moves his only daughter, Maren, out of their double wide for the umpteenth time. They have less than an hour to find a new home before the rest of the community figures out their terrible secret ...
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Staffing the writer's room with 'Let the Right One In' showrunner and EP Andrew Hinderaker
How far would you go to protect your child? Would you lie? Cheat? Steal? How about kill? These are the questions behind Amazon Prime’s latest horror drama, Let the Right One In. LTROI follows the story of Mark Kane (Demián Bichir) and his forever you...
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Rising Through the Ranks: 'Equalizer's' Vanessa Herron
“I’m excited to wake up in the morning and do what I’ve dreamed of doing for so long: Make a decent living as a writer.”
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Write On with 'The Northman' Co-Writers Robert Eggers and Sjón
From visionary director Robert Eggers, The Northman follows a young Viking prince (Alexander Skarsgård) on a quest to avenge his father's murder. Eggers and his co-writer, Sjón, chatted with Final Draft about the collaborative process of working on t...
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A Big Break Success Story: Otter Space by Benj Thall and Andrew Levine
In 2020, screenwriting team Andrew Levine and Benj Thall’s Family/Animated feature Otter Space placed in the Top 5 of their category, thus beginning their journey to making Otter Space the podcast a reality. The writing duo credits Big Break as essen...
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‘Thirteen Lives’ writer on turning true stories into emotional narratives
For over 40 years, William Nicholson has been writing screenplays, two of which garnered Oscar® nominations. His latest film Thirteen Lives matches him up with Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard in a film delivering an emotional adventure as E...
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