One Battle After Another's Paul Thomas Anderson has won Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards.

Wicked: For Good fans can now read the official screenplay for the blockbuster film, which is currently in theaters. As part of Deadline's Read the Screenplay series, the entertainment outlet has ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s most talked-about movies kicks off its 2025-2026 awards season with Netflix’s Jay Kelly, written and directed by Noah ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Josh Weiss is a writer covering the nexus of pop culture and Judaism. If you’re going to buy one book on screenwriting, then you ...

Brennan Cusack's pilot "The Badlands Woman's Clinic" won the $10,000 grand prize. In 2025, the contest celebrated writers across five categories: feature film, horror/thriller, TV pilot, short film, ...

Although Charlottesville is known for hosting the Virginia Film Festival, the film scene at the University is remarkably small. Until recently, there were only two film production-focused student ...

Twin sisters Lauren Rosson and Lorna Norrise have spent years helping others turn ideas into screenplays and screenplays into films. Known professionally as Mumm and Dean, the Sacramento-based pair ...

The first rule of screenwriting is that it’s always formatted in 12-point Courier font—as if ejected from the typewriter of a gumshoe detective. Beyond this, there are no rules. There are no necessary ...

Sometime last year, Matt Quinn took an excerpt from a script he’d written and put it into an AI image generator to create a character. The associate professor of screenwriting, who also serves as ...

Final Draft is the industry-leading professional screenwriting software used by filmmakers, television writers, and playwrights worldwide. Unlike basic text editors, Final Draft automatically formats ...

When you start writing a screenplay, it’s tempting to think you need some magical new skillset – secret tricks that only “real” writers know. The truth? The most powerful tools you’ll ever use are ...

“It doesn’t have to be a big idea. It could start small.” For writer/director HIKARI, the truth to an idea is far more important than the size of one. The Screenwriting Lab Fellow believes that ...