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Write On with the WGA East’s New York Screenwriters Workshop

March 16, 2021

The New York Screenwriters Workshop sponsored by Final Draft is a weekly intensive for early-career, New York City-based screenwriters who are under-represented in the film industry. Write On host Phil Galasso talks with one of the workshop’s fellows...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways From 'I Care a Lot'

March 12, 2021

From the very beginning, I Care a Lot makes the viewer uncomfortable and puts them on edge. That’s the point, though. It drives the viewer towards wanting to know how everything will play out. If there's one thing the film accomplishes, it’s frighten...

Afro Horror: Revisiting 'Us' (2019)

March 12, 2021

This month marks the second anniversary of Jordan Peele’s instant horror classic, Us, which hit theaters March 22nd, 2019. In the film, a nuclear family traveling to their summer home for a vacation falls into a deadly mystery of mistaken identity, l...

History of TV: How 'Sex and the City' Put HBO on the Map

March 11, 2021

Discovering Sex and the City halfway through university proved detrimental to my already poor sleep habits. I binge-watched entire seasons and I credit it with one of my long-standing relationships: Mr. Big. Though in my case he’s a six-pound Yorkie ...

Patrick Ness’s ‘Chaos Walking’ Lays Bare Thoughts, Feelings, And Toxic Masculinity

March 10, 2021

Chaos Walking, originally a novel by Patrick Ness who also co-wrote the script with Christopher Ford, has a striking premise. It’s set on a planet in a post-Earth world where men’s thoughts can be heard by others and women don’t seem to exist (at fir...

Write On with 'Coming 2 America' Director Craig Brewer

March 9, 2021

Craig Brewer, Writer-Director of Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan and TV’s Empire, talks to guest host Sade’ Sellers about directing the sequel to Eddie Murphy’s hit comedy Coming to America. “I felt that there was a noble theme inside the sequel…...

5 Screenwriting Takeaways: ‘Nomadland’ Paves the Way for Revelatory Road Movies

March 8, 2021

Nomadland is the kind of film that keeps you thinking about it long after the closing credits. Golden Globe®-winning writer-director Chloé Zhao made the film largely in secret, after news broke that she'd be helming Marvel’s Eternals. Gathering a sma...

Safer at Home' Writer-Director Will Wernick Talks Pandemic Thrillers

March 8, 2021

For months, the pandemic upended moviemaking. Productions were put on hold mid-shoot. Some were indefinitely rescheduled, while others were altogether cancelled. The state of the industry was a giant question mark — the severity of COVID-19 and the u...

Write On with 'Soul' Co-Writer Mike Jones

March 5, 2021

Mike Jones speaks to Write On host Phil Galasso about the unique process of writing for Pixar, and how he, Pete Doctor and Kemp Powers collaborated on Soul. “It was a great, kind of fantastic partnership because it's hard to force partnerships, and K...