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Why your script SHOULDN’T stand out

December 4, 2015

by Kelly Boruff

Humbug writers Todd R Jones and Earl Richey Jones on Selling the Big Pitch with Ice Cube

December 4, 2015

Writers’ Roundup

December 4, 2015

Interview with Markus Goerg

December 4, 2015

Markus Goerg is one manager I’ve been aware of for quite some time. Though his management company, Heroes and Villains, is a relatively young one (launched in 2008), his name garners such respect among those in the know that I was delighted at the op...

Interview with Mason Novick

December 4, 2015

by Lee Jessup, Career Coach for Professional & Emerging Screenwriters

Phyllis Nagy talks about her 18-year journey to making her new film Carol

December 4, 2015

By Shanee Edwards

Downton Abbey’s writer, Julian Fellowes, says he’s not a control freak when it comes to writing

December 4, 2015

Phyllis Nagy's 18-Year Journey to Making Her New Film "Carol"

November 18, 2015

Despite having a successful career as a playwright, Phyllis Nagy is best known for her 2005 film Mrs. Harris, starring Annette Benning and Ben Kingsley. She’s now adapted Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt into the new film Carol, dire...

How I Broke In: Randall Wallace

September 11, 2015

Today we have the great pleasure of talking with Randall Wallace, a man who needs no introduction (but we’re going to anyway, because it’s our job). Randall is a director, producer, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist. His films include (but are no...