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The Christmas Movie Market
If you read my last article on Christmas movies, you’ll know that I love this time of year, love writing about this time of year, and love watching Christmas movies. I don’t watch them all. How could you? There are so many.
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History of TV: Why ‘The Wire’ is Still Relevant Television Today
The American dream at its best: enterprising drug lords go up against the Baltimore Police Department in the first season of HBO’s The Wire. Right out of the starting gate, the crime drama sets up the whole series through a seemingly random conversat...
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Write On with 'Archenemy' Writer-Director Adam Egypt Mortimer
Archenemy co-writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer discusses his approach to working in different genres, the tricky balance of withholding and disclosing information to the audience, and more. In the movie, a teen meets a mysterious man played by ...
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Director April Mullen on Independent Film & 'Wander'
Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, and Heather Graham star in April Mullen's new edge-of-your-seat thriller, Wander, in which a paranoid private investigator with a troubled past is hired to investigate a suspicious death in the town of Wander. He soon ...
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The 5 Things You Apparently Don’t Need to Make a Christmas Classic
Can you create a Christmas classic without Santa Claus? Or even snow? Apparently, you can.
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Talking Suspense and Stakes in Braden R. Duemmler's 'What Lies Below'
In writer-director Braden R. Duemmler’s debut feature sci-fi/horror What Lies Below, we are whisked into the suspense when 16-year-old Liberty (Ema Horvath) returns home from camp and learns that her mother Michelle (Mena Suvari) has a new boyfriend ...
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Write On with 'Wander Darkly' Writer-Director Tara Miele
Wander Darkly writer-director Tara Miele and our favorite guest host Sade' Sellers discuss working with actors like Sienna Miller and Diego Luna, how a car crash she and her husband got into actually influenced the film and more. In the film, a traum...
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Write On with Storied Media Group's VP of Operations Kevin Fernandes and Founder Todd Hoffman
Storied Media Group's Vice President of Operations Kevin Fernandes and Founder & CEO Todd Hoffman discuss what they look for in an IP (intellectual property), their process for packaging, and more. Storied Media Group was founded in 2013 and has ...
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5 Screenwriting Takeaways: The Meta Examination of Making a Movie in ‘Black Bear’
Black Bear seems to have stemmed from filmmaker Lawrence Michael Levine’s possible personal struggle with writer’s block that turned into a fever dream of an artistic experiment. It feels personal because the main character, for whom Levine cast the ...
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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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