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‘Luxor’ Is a Luxurious and Subtle Study in Healing
Post-traumatic stress disorder is not something easily portrayed onscreen. It presents itself in different ways — a sneaky ailment that can come and go, and live in the shadows of those it haunts, striking at the most unexpected moments. Luxor tells ...
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Write On with 'Happiest Season' Writer-Director Clea DuVall
Happiest Season writer-director Clea DuVall discusses telling a universal story through a unique lens, working within the romantic-comedy and Christmas movies genres, her approach to writing characters, and more! Kristen Stewart stars as a young woma...
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‘Half Brothers’ Is An Empathetic Buddy Comedy That Examines the Struggle For the American Dream
There is nothing like a road trip to put an untested relationship on trial. Half Brothers is that trial for two brothers who’ve never met prior to their father’s death. The film embraces a lot of buddy comedy tropes: an odd couple, a road trip, bondi...
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Matt Lieberman On Specs and 'The Christmas Chronicles'
Screenwriter Matt Lieberman wrote Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles as a spec script back in 2012. The script sat in development for six years until, in a twist of events that some in Hollywood might call a Christmas miracle, Home Alone director Chr...
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Write On with 'Palm Springs' Writer Andy Siara
'Palm Springs' writer Andy Siara discusses how the story evolved through the writing process, the tricky tonal balance the script strikes, and much more. The film stars Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti as two wedding guests that develop a budding rom...
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‘The Nest’ Takes a Brutal Look at Capitalist Destruction Via One Couple's Ailing Relationship
At its core, The Nest is a movie about longing. It’s about always wishing for more, in the wake of a childhood that was lacking. The film is also brutal in its look at love, lust and money, and filmmaker Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene) likes i...
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Rising Through the Ranks: Monique 'Mo' Moshaty
Quarantine hasn't slowed Monique 'Mo' Moshaty down, as she works from home in her newly formed writers room; an all-female horror collective made up of four women from around the country. The group, which formed in March, is crafting a dark, sci-fi a...
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Writer Marissa Kate Goodhill on 'Come Away'
Not many screenwriters can say their first-ever script was made into a film starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo. But Marissa Kate Goodhill can. While Goodhill has been writing scripts for over 10 years, Come Away, which is a sort of prequel to ...
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Writer-Director David Freyne Gets Personal With His Film 'Dating Amber'
The Irish coming-of-age comedy follows the friendship of Eddie (Fionn O’Shea), a closeted gay teen, and Amber (Lola Petticrew), a fellow closeted lesbian, who pretend to be a couple to avoid being tormented at school in writer-director David Freyne's...
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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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