Jenna Milly

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Jenna Milly is Editor-in-chief of ScreenwritingU Magazine, an inside source for the latest scoop from the screenwriter's POV on upcoming movies. She interviews some of the top writers in Hollywood for such movies as The Revenant, The MartianMission: Impossible and many others. She co-created the TBS microseries Gillian in Georgia. She earned her B.A. in Journalism from the University of Georgia and a M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. She has written for CNN.com, The Los Angeles Times, Script Magazine, TwelvePoint, and a variety of magazines. You can follow her on Twitter: @jennamilly

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BAD WORDS screenwriter Andrew Dodge

How do you sell a spec script in Hollywood? It used to be that a writer would have to acquire representation, an agent or a manager, who could send the spec material out into the marketplace and hope a studio or production company would make an offer. That was before The Black List, an industry list of the best unproduced spec scripts voted on by ...

Craig Wright on MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN

The beloved brainiac dog of the 60s, Mr. Peabody, returns for his very own feature film along with his son Sherman. The silly time travel movie with a heart-warming father and son story is not the typical subject matter for TV writer Craig Wright, who wrote Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Wright’s other credits include dark and meandering dramas ...

Craig Wright on MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN

The beloved brainiac dog of the 60s, Mr. Peabody, returns for his very own feature film along with his son Sherman. The silly time travel movie with a heart-warming father and son story is not the typical subject matter for TV writer Craig Wright, who wrote Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Wright’s other credits include dark and meandering dramas ...

Writer/director Rob Pearlstein on SOMEONE MARRY BARRY

Every have a friend in your group who was so annoying that you didn’t know if you could be friends anymore? Writer/director Rob Pearlstein has. And he wrote a movie about it. “The truth is I have more than one [Barry],” said Pearlstein. “I had this realization that I have people in my life who are this guy… Then, there comes a point in ...

Showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields on THE AMERICANS

Writer Joe Weisberg knows a lot about being a spy. He used to be one. The former CIA officer is now the showrunner of the hit drama The Americans. Set in the 1980s during the height of the Cold War, The Americans centers on a married couple (played by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) who are actually Russian illegals spying inside the U.S. “A ...

Interview: ProSeries Writer Anthony Giunta

How do you go from script to producer to actors...and end up on Comedy Network?  Those are a few of the questions I ask ScreenwritingU Alum Anthony Giunta about his first movie -- that came from his first script! We also talked about what made this screenplay special, what it was like to direct the movie, and how his team built up 331,000 fans ...

Screenwriter Kelly Marcel on SAVING MR. BANKS

Saving Mr. Banks is the movie that no one ever thought Disney would make – the real story of how Mary Poppins came to be a beloved children’s film. The classic film about the magic nanny has warmed hearts for a generation, but the story of how it became such a film wasn’t as easy as pulling an umbrella out of a bag. The film was based on a ...

Screenwriters Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack on DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

When screenwriter Craig Borten first read about an AIDS patient who was selling black market prescription drugs to other patients in need of alternative medical assistance, he was instantly intrigued. This subsection of the AIDS culture, known as private buyers clubs – where patients join clubs to receive their own medical advice as well as ...

Writer/director Ted Koland on BEST MAN DOWN

Romantic comedies usually end with a wedding. Best Man Down starts with one, but not everything goes well for the couple after they walk down the aisle. First off, their best man drops dead shortly after the reception. That’s a left turn we haven’t seen before. “Frankly, I never thought it would get made,” said screenwriter Ted Koland ...

Screenwriter Dan Fogelman on LAST VEGAS

He writes animated movies (Cars, Cars 2, Tangled, and Bolt). He writes indie comedies (Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Guilt Trip). And he also does Christmas, too (Fred Claus). Is there anything that screenwriter Dan Fogelman can’t do? Apparently not. His new film, Last Vegas, is an ensemble starring some of Hollywood’s greatest actors -- Michael ...

Screenwriter Josh Singer on THE FIFTH ESTATE

By Jenna Milly Those familiar with eccentric WikiLeaks inventor Julien Assange know that writing a movie about him would be an enormous endeavor to say the least. Screenwriter Josh Singer got his fill when asked to adapt two books, hundreds of online articles and a heap of text chains between Assange and his coworkers into one two-hour movie. ...

"How I got 72 Script Requests!" With Screenwriter J.T. Quinn

Our ScreenwritingU Alumni just came back from the InkTip Pitch Summit and had a lot of success.  Every day right now, more script requests are rolling in for the group.  But one person stood out.  J.T. Quinn Going in with 12 scripts, J.T. and his partner used a different strategy up front -- They asked the producers what kind of comedy they ...
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