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Courtesy TCM Classic Film Festival
This year's 15th Annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival's theme was Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Film. Their slate of films over the weekend was a reflection of this theme, with a particular bend towards noir and she-done-him-wrong tales.
Opening night, April 18, saw cast members of Quentin Tarantino's crimeorama Pulp Fiction reunite for a screening of the classic, gritty crime flick. John Travolta, Sam Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Harvey Keitel took the stage before the screening for a Q&A led by Ben Mankiewicz.
That same night, TCM's notab ..read more
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4d ago
There are a lot of different screenwriting contests out there for feature films, shorts, and television all designed to help launch the careers of writers. Contests can be a great way to get noticed and writers who have entered contests have had their screenplays optioned, sold, and have secured high-profile representation.
With 11 digital products helping you get your script contest ready, strategies for winning, making your first pages shine, writing for the reader, and creating a marketing plan you'll have everything you need to help conquer your next contest entry.
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5d ago
Harriet (Lucy Boynton) finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – literally. While she relives the past through romantic memories of her former boyfriend (David Corenswet), her time travelling collides with a burgeoning new love interest in the present (Justin H. Min). As she takes her journey through the hypnotic connection between music and memory, she wonders – even if she could change the past, should she?
What if you could turn back time and save a loved one? For those that have lost someone, I’m sure it’s a far fetched idea that’s come acr ..read more
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5d ago
Sadie and Jeanne chat with filmmaker, writer, lyricist, model, director, champion of collaboration, Aimiende Negbenebor Sela of Sela Films, LLC.
If you are only working on one project at a time, you need to listen to this. A double listen for anyone who wants advice on filmmaking in a collaborative way ... which is the only way, tbh.
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5d ago
The Absence of Eden takes place at the border between the United States and Mexico – a hellish landscape inhabited by coyotes, armed officers, desperate immigrants, and refugees. When Esmee (Saldaña), a young woman working as a private dancer in Mexico, is forced to commit a violent act of self-defense that results in the death of a cartel member, she flees her homeland for sanctuary in the United States. Guided by a ruthless Coyote and a group of undocumented immigrants, she befriends a young mother and her daughter along the way. Before crossing the border, the mother is taken from the group ..read more
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5d ago
Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood And Turner Classic Movies Launch New TCM Classic Films Tour.
Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood
Last year, Warner Bros. celebrated its centennial. Birthed on April 4, 1923 by brothers Harry, Samuel, Albert, and Jack, with Jack being the most colorful of the four, the studio has produced some of the world’s most beloved movie favorites. Their motto was “Educate, Enlighten, Entertain.” They went on to do this in spades with The Sea Hawk, Knute Rockne, All American, The Glass Menagerie, Ocean’s 11, Days ..read more
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6d ago
Welcome to “Ask the Coach.” As a writing coach, I answer questions from writers about making the work of writing happen, tackling craft, business, and personal questions along the way. (Have a question you’d like answered? Check the details at the end of the article about how to submit one.)
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Today I’m responding to a question about procrastination.
Dear Jenna, I struggle with procrastination and getting started writing. I want to write, but each day I wrestle with myself to get started. When I do finally get around to writing, I feel so much better. But I hate all the time I’m wasting ..read more
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1w ago
As The Wiz recently retook Broadway and is now on tour, we’re turning our attention to the female screenwriter who brought us the iconic 1939 adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s classic children’s story. While The Wizard of Oz (starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lahr) remains her most famous script, Ryerson wrote or adapted over 59 stories for the screen. Her career built from the silent era with her first story credit, Harold, the Last of the Saxons (1919), through Talkies like Babes in Arms (1939) and into television as early as 1949 with episodes of Kraft Theatre.
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We, the global film and TV audience are making it very clear what we want to watch, yet the people creating the content don’t seem to be listening. What’s going on?
Tubi released a survey last month – it’s the ad-supported 'free’ streamer owned by FOX - that revealed interesting tidbits our content overlords seem to be entirely ignoring.
96% of people surveyed liked ‘nostalgia watching’ – movies and TV that are more than ten years old. And 67% of millennials and Gen Z’ers said they like it because…”the style and quality is good.”
These same youngsters and not so youngsters also said whe ..read more
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1w ago
New to Los Angeles, a rideshare driver Clar (Maika Monroe) picks up Carl (Dane DeHaan) from a home deep in the Hollywood Hills. What begins as a routine ride turns into Clare's worst nightmare: a twelve-hour fight for survival through the city's seedy underbelly. Carl is not the passenger Clare thought he was, and Clare is not easy prey.
This is a particularly unique case that storyteller and filmmaker Veena Sud found herself in – full copyright ownership of her TV series, that would be produced and released. This said series, The Stranger, was a short format series, running at approxim ..read more