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Remastered ‘The Last Days’ gets Netflix release and new witnesses to history

May 27, 2021

It feels like an important time for the re-release of The Last Days, an Oscar®-winning documentary about Hungarian Holocaust survivors. Steven Spielberg produced the project under the USC Shoah Foundation, which he founded in 1994. The Last Days was ...

Write On with 'Solos' Creator and Writer David Weil

May 26, 2021

Solos is a dramatic anthology series created by David Weil and produced by Amazon. The series features stars such as Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren, among others. David talks to Write On about the genesis of the project: “ Solos was b...

Stealing Chaplin' is homage to both noir and madcap comedy

May 26, 2021

Stealing Chaplin is a fun homage to noir, crime comedy, and the general debauchery and strangeness that Vegas conjures. It’s inspired by a true story; back in 1978, two men dug up the corpse of Charlie Chaplin, convinced they’d be able to secure a co...

Write On with 'Spiral' Co-Writer Pete Goldfinger

May 25, 2021

Pete Goldfinger is no stranger to the Saw franchise, having previously penned Jigsaw about the eponymous villain of the series. He talks to Write On about servicing the fanbase and what it’s like to craft the set pieces the franchise is known for. "W...

Sitting down with 'Dementia: Part II' filmmakers Matt Mercer and Mike Testin

May 24, 2021

This week I had the honor of sitting down with the writing/directing team, Matt Mercer and Mike Testin, of the upcoming balls-to-the-wall horror-comedy, Dementia: Part II. Following a maintenance worker on a routine house call, the one hour and seven...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: Netflix's 'Halston' embraces fashion, friendship and excess

May 24, 2021

Halston is the flashy new fashion bio series apparently taking many liberties with designer Roy Halston Frowick’s life. According to his niece, Lesley Frowick, no member of his family has endorsed the show. After watching the trailer, Frowick stresse...

Timur Bekmambetov's 'Profile' explores terrifying aspects of our all-digital lives

May 21, 2021

Though we were headed there prior to the pandemic, it seems like everything in our lives has become digital — or at least has the option to be online — since March 2020. Where actual face time was a necessity of life, COVID-19 has enabled us to hide ...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Riders of Justice' turns tragedy into a tale of revenge

May 21, 2021

Compelling characters that actors want to play and into which they can infuse their light and personality elevates a film to the next level. Riders of Justice's Markus is played by Mads Mikkelsen, fresh off an Academy® Award nomination for his role i...

Robert Machoian dissects masculinity and fatherhood in ‘The Killing of Two Lovers’

May 21, 2021

David (Clayne Crawford) looks down the barrel of a gun one second, and in the next he hops into his truck to spend time with his children. The Killing of Two Lovers teeters on this eerie dichotomy to share the story of a father who does anything he c...