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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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Ragged Heart' is a haunting and engrossing look at regret
Ragged Heart is a raw journey through the heart of a grieving musician who loses his gifted daughter after an unexpected phone call. Filmmaker Evan McNary has crafted a haunting narrative, which drifts through the secret lives of the artists of Athen...
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History of TV: 'The Golden Girls' golden era
What would the world do without Betty White? The famous actress perhaps originally became that way for her role in The Golden Girls, though these days she might be better known for that meme about Captain America finally dating someone his own age — ...
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Writer-director Craig Pryce and 'The Marijuana Conspiracy'
In Toronto, Canada circa 1972 when marijuana was still considered highly controversial, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females — a manufac...
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Write On with ‘Hip Hop Family Christmas’ Co-Writer Saeed Crumpler – Part II
In this special 2-part episode of Write On we talk to Flatbush Misdemeanors staff writer and co-writer of Hip Hop Family Christmas Saeed Crumpler about his career transition from rapper to screenwriter: "Coming from music, I used to look at each song...
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Writer-director Sydney Freeland breaks down the authenticity of ‘Reservation Dogs’
Four Indigenous teens lunge into a truck carrying Flaming Flamers hot chips in bulk. They slip the door closed and speed back home, unseen even as they zoom past local police. Seeing these kids do almost anything to raise money for their plan to leav...
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Netflix and Chad Hodge team up for 'Single All the Way'
If you interviewed a celebrity screenwriter whose Christmas romantic comedy just aired on Netflix to rave reviews and made the streaming service's top 10, would you expect the Zoom call to be delightful and fun?
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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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