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The new filmmaker’s guide to the Internet.
Anatomy of a Spec Sale
Ari Eisner was a new writer who had a very, very bad week. So he wrote a spec TV pilot that he sold to Warner Bros.
Production Co. Spotlight
Lost Scenes: Out of Sight
Screenwriter Scott Frank and director Steven Soderbergh add power and tension by cutting dialogue (and cutting away) in this memorable trunk scene.
Breaking In
Eric Enroth and Patricia Tait, Spencer Walker
People
Rick Fox and Jay Convente, Stephanie Lord
Why I Write: Douglas Coupland
The author of the seminal Generation X reveals what led him to write his first screenplay, and why finishing is 95 percent of writing.
Festival Report: Sundance
Grace Is Gone, screenwriter James Strouse’s powerful directorial debut that picked up the Waldo Salt Screen writing Award, is just one of the films senior editor Jeff Goldsmith checked out at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
COMING SOON…
Hot Fuzz
Shaun of the Dead creators put a British spin on the action genre.
BY JUDD BLOCH
The Last Mimzy
Bruce Joel Rubin writes the ending to a story he saw as a child.
BY PETER CLINES
300
Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad convert Frank Miller’s bloody graphic novel into a CGI epic.
BY JEREMY SMITH
Away From Her
Actress Sarah Polley adapts Alice Munro for her first screenplay.
BY DANNY MUNSO
I Think I Love My Wife
Chris Rock and Louis C.K. turn Erich Rohmer’s infidelity drama into a comedy.
BY DANNY MUNSO
Sunshine
Alex Garland’s latest pits mankind against a dying sun.
BY DAVID MICHAEL WHARTON
Zodiac
Jamie Vanderbilt turns the unsolved case of the Zodiac killer into “the last serial killer movie” for Se7en‘s David Fincher.
BY JEREMY SMITH
Lucky You
Eric Roth ‘s first original script in almost a decade focuses on poker, Las Vegas, and redemption.
BY DANNY MUNSO
COLUMNS
The Business of Screenwriting
A Day in the Life
Excerpts from the diary of a first-time director.
BY RON SUPPA
Writer Beware!
Cover Me
Everyone needs honest analysis of their work. So when looking for script coverage, who should you turn to and when?
BY SEAN KENNELLY
Agent’s Hot Sheet
Go Hyphenate Yourself!
A quick peek at the pros and cons of trying to be a writer-director.
BY JIM CIRILE
Our Craft
We Now Direct You To…
How to direct on the page without the reader (especially the director) noticing.
BY KARL IGLESIAS
You’ve Got to Produce
No Man Is an Island
Once the script is done, the team building begins. And remember, with great advisors come great responsibilities.
BY CATHERINE CLINCH
The Final Scene
The Lookout
BY SCOTT FRANK
FEATURES
Dead Man’s Curve: Quentin Tarantino Drives You to the Grindhouse
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are bringing back the ’70s with Grindhouse‘s double bill of murder and mayhem. Here Tarantino tells you why you should love B-movies, the joy of writing quickly, and why his stalker car-chase movie Death Proof is a chick flick.
BY JEREMY SMITH
On The Lookout: Scott Frank’s Directing Debut Mixes Crime, Identity, and a Little Advice from Mr. Spielberg
Scott Frank merges his interests in crime fiction and identity to create a story about a brain-damaged janitor pressed into service by bank robbers—a story that Frank turned into his feature-film directing debut.
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
So You Want to Direct? Advice From Screenwriters Who Moved Behind the Camera
Five scribes step out from behind the keyboard to offer advice and anecdotes from their forays into the director’s chair, and what writers helming their feature debut can expect the first time they call “Action!”
BY JASON DAVIS
From Author to Auteur: A Survey of Directing Classes, Workshops, Seminars, & Film Schools
So you’ve decided you want to direct. What skills do you need? And where do you go to get them? From two-day seminars to two-year MFAs, an overview of the paths you can travel to learn how to turn your words into pictures.
BY NANCY HENDRICKSON
So You Want To Make a Documentary? The Six Areas You Need to Explore
The co-author of The Documentary Film Makers Handbook leads you through the steps to create a documentary, with a few words of advice from people who have been there and lived to screen their films about it.
BY ANDREW ZINNES
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