Best of the Web

When we find good stuff for screenwriters, we pass it on. If the news is breaking or time-sensitive we re-publish immediately, otherwise check the weekly digest.

Best o/t Web 7 Nov

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:: Back To The Future, Bollywood style! :: 13 lucky tips for pitching :: Cut a character, save a scene :: Top spec script deals :: How can you tell if your novel is just an overgrown short story? :: The myth of multitasking :: Toy Story 3 screenplay :: Bill Murray as other Wes Anderson characters :: First images from Steven Spielberg’s Tintin … Read more

Best o/t Web 31 Oct

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:: Screenplay rejection letter from 1920s movie studio :: A seminar with Billy Wilder :: Stuck as a writer’s assistant? :: Are parentheticals overused? :: Why Doc Brown is the real villain of Back To The Future :: Drama from the non-dramatic :: Author’s e-novel to become Hollywood movie :: The art of book-to-film adaptations :: Why doesn’t more fantasy take place in the … Read more

Best o/t Web 24 Oct

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:: On Subtext :: Fears and Questions of Science Fiction :: Complications, Reversals, and Roadblocks :: Restoring Chaplin gems :: Movie quotes that had us at hello :: Interview: Michael Arndt and Lee Unkrich of Toy Story 3 :: Battlestar Galactica writer goes back to the future :: Judith Weston on building conflict and drama in your scene :: A screenwriting competition believer :: ‘RED,’ … Read more

Best o/t Web 17 Oct

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:: Reviewing Memento (Nolan Theme Week)
:: 60 Best blogs for aspiring screenwriters
:: 65 nations compete for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars
:: Selling more scripts through personality typecasting
:: Query Letters: the three paragraph rule
:: Aaron Sorkin on The Social Network’s depiction of women
:: Is this the end for Mad Max?
:: Redford bringing Sundance to the UK?
:: Prince of Persia, original screenplay
:: What about the use of coincidence in a comedy?
:: The emotional and psychological world of you and your characters

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Best o/t Web 10 Oct

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:: Michael Mann directs Luck for HBO
:: Compete with Hollywood? Yes you can
:: Seventy-Five years of development…
:: Reviewed: the script that took $1.5m
:: Free download: Syriana (UK only)
:: Johnny Depp: an awesome dude
:: Ghostbusters 3 will happen, says Ackroyd
:: About the main character of Let Me In
:: How to keep writing?
:: Superman script a mess, now with Snyder. Oh dear…
:: What is the point of the scene?

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