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Stupid Cupid' examines finding what you need in the world of dating apps
Anyone who has ever struggled with online dating and invested time in searching for their person will relate to Stupid Cupid. The show, which is chock-full of bad dating experiences, is about a group of friends trying to create a dating app that "mat...
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Write On with 'iCarly' Showrunner Ali Schouten
Ali talks to Write On about how she selects writers for the Paramount + original series. "For a lot of people, it's about the specificity of 'Can they write for my show?' For me, it was a little bit more 'Can they write?'… Some of the writers that we...
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Hank Azaria-produced 'Class' explores the cultlike aspects of acting school
It’s no small feat to have your short film produced by Hank Azaria, but when one watches Class it’s evident why the actor took on the project. The film is a wild look at one cultlike acting class that will likely have lasting effects on all the stude...
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5 Filmmaking Takeaways from making a Dances with Films short
Making a short always seems like a great idea — and it is! It can get traction for a larger idea. It can help you meet other people in the industry. It’s a fabulous way to test-drive something out of your comfort zone. It’s also a hell of a lot of fu...
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Screenwriter Matt Lieberman on the journey to 'Free Guy' and writing for yourself
Directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer, Free Guy follows a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game and decides to become the hero of his own story; one he rewrites himself. N...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Beckett’ runs in political thriller
Beckett and April are American tourists enjoying a romantic vacation in Greece when a tragic car accident turns this relatively tame trip into a Hitchcockian nightmare. Alone, Beckett must navigate the unfamiliar territory as he tries to make it to t...
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Write On with Big Break Winner Stacie Gancayco-Adlao
Stacie Gancayco-Adlao was a Grand Prize Winner in the 2020 Big Break Screenwriting Contest for her feature film script Clementine. Big Break Contest Director Kala Guess talks to Stacie about what it was like winning the contest, how Stacie's network ...
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Viral' Screenwriter and Big Break finalist Joe McClean on breaking in and the long game
Screenwriting is one of countless tasks that fall under the "it’s a marathon, not a sprint," analogy. (We all learn the meaning of that analogy through the parable of the tortoise and the hare; the best telling being the Bugs Bunny version, obviously...
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History of TV: The deeply, depressively funny world of 'BoJack Horseman'
Netflix’s original animated series BoJack Horseman is a little more dramedy than sitcom, while cleverly incorporating the show-within-a-show that the titular character, Mr. Horseman, once starred in during his heyday. Yes, I pun occasionally. As does...
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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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