Just when you thought the romantic comedy was dead, along comes this little beauty staring Lake Bell and Simon Pegg. Man Up is the story of two people who meet on a blind date, only one of them isn’t supposed to be on that date. Wait, let’s ...
Wrecker is the story of two women who after getting lost on a road trip, they become the random target of a psychotic truck driver. Writer and director Micheal Bafaro always loved chase movies and had a particular soft spot for one of Steven ...
“This was literally non-paid labor for seven or eight years,” screenwriter John McNamara laughs when asked how he came across the idea to write Trumbo, the biopic about Hollywood’s most famous blacklisted screenwriter. “I wrote the screenp...
Truth is a film about one of the last major stories CBS news anchor Dan Rather reported on before he retired from a long career as a veteran journalist.
In 2004, president George W. Bush was campaigning for re-election, and the news media was ...
It seems hard to believe that women less than 100 years ago didn’t have the right to vote. But does it seem even harder to believe that women still suffer from inequality in 2015? This was noted recently in an essay penned by actress Jennifer ...
After writing a script that got the attention of several Hollywood creative executives, writing partners Alistair Legrand and Luke Harvis pitched the idea for The Diabolical. It may seem like an easy task to have a meeting on one project and ...
Screenwriter Jason Fuchs has been obsessed with Peter Pan since he and his dad were stuck on the Peter Pan ride at Disney World when he was 9 years old. Since then, Fuchs has been fascinated with the idea of writing Peter Pan’s origin story. ...
The most famous chess player of our time is also the most complicated.
In the late 1950s, a boy from Brooklyn named Bobby Fischer took the world by storm when he became the youngest grandmaster in chess up at age 15.
When screenwriter ...
It took screenwriter Jeff Gendelman nearly two decades to see his quiet, psychological thriller The Surface become a reality. The story takes place on Lake Michigan where a young man comes across a stranger who is delivering a mysterious ...
“With every character I write I try to put myself in their shoes,” says writer/director Mora Stephens of the troubled protagonist in her new thriller, Zipper, the story of a rising political star who becomes obsessed with call girls.
Zi...
"With all the effort it takes to get these things made, there are so many opportunities to stumble and lose track of the story that you want to tell,” says actor Jeremy Sisto of the screenwriting process. This is his first foray into writing ...
First time writer/director Anne LeSchander shot her feature film in seven days for $25,000. If you know anything about making movies, this is a feat in and of itself. The film takes place entirely at one location — except for a few ...
