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Writer/actor Sonja Bennett on PREGGOLAND

When actress Sonja Bennett was pregnant with her first child and walked across the street on a random day headed to her favorite coffeeshop, she got the idea for Preggoland. Having stopped traffic due to her pregnant belly, she realized at that ...

Screenwriters Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel on THE D TRAIN

How far would you go to change the reputation you had in high school? That’s the premise of the new indie comedy The D Train starring Jack Black and James Marsden. Writing partners Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel (Yes Man) wrote and directed ...

David Nicholls on FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Carey Mulligan plays Bathsheba Everdene in Hollywood’s fourth official screen adaptation of the popular Thomas Hardy novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. Set in in Victorian England, the film follows Everdene’s character as she comes into a ...

Writer/director Mike Binder on BLACK OR WHITE

Writer/director Mike Binder is a veteran Hollywood filmmaker with a credit list that includes Reign Over Me, The Upside of Anger and The Sex Monster, among others. His latest film, Black or White, is about a white man who fights for the custody ...

Writer/director Kornél Mundruczó on WHITE GOD

White God is an independent Hungarian film about a girl who becomes separated from her pet dog when she’s forced to give him up. The dog – although captured by abusive owners --  sets out on a journey to be reunited with the girl. The film ...

Screenwriter Tom Rogers on TINKER BELL AND THE LEGEND OF THE NEVERBEAST

Do you have an idea about creating an expansive world for your screenplay? Perhaps you want to invent a world as massive as Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Screenwriter Tom Rogers goes through the process step-by-step as he worked with the ...

Writer/director Georgina Garcia Riedel on ANA MARIA IN NOVELA LAND

If you’re writing a switch movie this is the podcast for you. What’s a switch movie, you ask…?  It’s only one of the greatest inventions of filmmaking – where one character’s mind gets teleported into another character’s body. ...

Screenwriter Josh Cagan on THE DUFF

The indie sensation that has everyone talking is a new teen comedy about Duffs. What’s a Duff? Designated ugly fat friend. Wait, what? Yep. High school has term for everything nowadays. When Bianca, played by Mae Whitman of Parentood fame, finds ...

Screenwriter Ol Parker on THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the little indie film with the big actors, took everyone by surprise in 2012 when it grossed $90 million worldwide. The cast included Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel and Tom Wilkinson in a story about ...

Screenwriter Paul Shoulberg on WALTER

Screenwriter Paul Shoulberg started his writing career as a playwright. So, how did he go from writing plays in New York to living in the Midwest and writing a script about a man named Walter who is in charge of deciding who goes to heaven and ...

Screenwriter Kay Cannon on PITCH PERFECT 2

Kay Cannon got the idea for Pitch Perfect while working as a writer on 30 Rock. She says however that everyone she pitched it to turned her down. That is until she talked to actress and producer Elizabeth Banks. CUT TO: Cannon is now gearing up for ...

Screenwriter Graham Moore on THE IMITATION GAME

Screenwriter Graham Moore has been obsessed with mathematician Alan Turing since he was a teenager. This obsession paid off. He is now nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game – the story of how the code-breaking ...
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