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Finding You' feels like a classic destination romance with some fun twists
Finding You originally stemmed from the 2011 novel There You’ll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones. Director Brian Baugh fell in love with the book after one of the film's executive producers brought him the novel. Baugh said he and the EP were both super exc...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: 'Wrath of Man'
Wrath of Man is Guy Ritchie's latest film, co-written with Ivan Atkison and Marn Davies and based on the 2004 French film Cash Truck by Nicolas Boukhrief and Éric Besnard, it also sees Ritchie collaborating again with action star Jason Statham who ca...
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The Reckoning' highlights the importance of feminism in horror
Disclaimer: I’m a fan of Neil Marshall’s prior work; specifically, the feature The Descent. For me, it’s brutal in all the right ways.
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Locked In' with writer-director Carlos Gutierrez
Mena Suvari stars as Maggie, a single mom of a teenage daughter who has taken one wrong turn after another, leading her to live hand-to-mouth in a rundown motel, working at a self-storage facility. Living in fear and desperate for money, Maggie makes...
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Write On with 'Feral State' Writer-Director Jon Carlo
Feral State is the story of a misfit gang of runaways and orphans who are taken in by a dark and charismatic father figure and together wreak havoc throughout swamps and trailer parks in central Florida. Writer-Director Jon Carlo talks to Write On ab...
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Childhood-friends-turned-filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell on their film 'The Djinn'
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing the writing-directing team of the upcoming supernatural horror, The Djinn. Set in present-day, The Djinn follows a non-verbal boy trapped in his apartment with a sinister demon after making an innocent wis...
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Thinking up 'The Unthinkable'
The Unthinkable can be described as an existential disaster film. It tells the story of a troubled pianist in Sweden who must return to his childhood village as the country is under attack by a nebulous foreign threat. These attacks extend to the vil...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Four Good Days’ takes hard look at addiction
Four Good Days is a brutal film that addresses the heroin epidemic head-on as Molly (Mila Kunis) struggles to stay clean for four days so she can take naltrexone, a monthly injection that makes it impossible to get high. Her only option to stay clean...
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John Berardo on his student film becoming the feature horror 'Initiation'
John Berardo grew up in Oklahoma knowing he wanted to get into filmmaking. So he packed his bags for California and got a Theatre Directing BA from UCLA, before heading to USC for a Cinema Production MFA.
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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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