The script for All is Lost was written by J.C. Chandor. The script is very short — only 31 pages — and contains hardly any dialogue.
December 13, 2013
Saving Mr. Banks Script
The Saving Mr. Banks script was written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith.
December 13, 2013
Quote of the Day: Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
December 12, 2013
30 Screenwriting Sites You Should Follow
Screen Craft has put together a list of 30 Facebook pages that every screenwriter should follow. If you’d rather not have your Facebook page overrun with too many updates, almost all of these Facebook pages also have good old fashioned websites associated with them. (And if you do like Facebook updates, remember to follow us on Facebook, too!)
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No Film School – Multiple posts each day that center around DIY filmmaking. Find tutorials, camera equipment reviews and more resources for making your own films.
- BlueCat Screenplay Competition — Every entry for the competition receives analysis. The Facebook account is updated every day with important date reminders, writing tips, news and bits of inspiration.
- Austin Film Festival – A great film festival and one of the best screenwriting conferences and competitions in the industry.
- The Script Lab — Like for posts every couple days that give advice, news and quotes specific to screenwriting.
- CELTX – Celtx is the world’s first all in one pre-production system. Like their Facebook page for links to many different media sources with articles and posts about film production, such as The Script Lab, The New York Times and Indiewire.
- Writers Guild of America, East and West ”Like” for information and reminders about WGAE events at their NYC headquarters, as well as other writing competitions, awards, and news. Also, the WGAW’s Facebook page has great resources, but it seems to be updated less frequently lately.
- ScriptChix – With a combined 20 years in the business, Sandra Leviton and Mirada Sajdak update with screenwriting, TV, and filmmaking advice, career guidance, and educational networking events.
- Film Independent — Join a community of independent filmmakers and fans on this page, which is updated about twice a day with fresh content and relevant independent moviemaking articles. read more »
December 12, 2013
Quote of the Day: Irvin S. Cobb
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
December 11, 2013
14 Working Screenwriters & Their Top Advice
Adam Sternbergh of The New York Times recently put together profiles of fourteen up and coming screenwriters. Each writer shares their top screenwriting tips. Take a look:
It’s notable that many of these writers — most, in fact — also directed their own scripts (Bell, Bujalski, Chandor, Holofcener, Jonze, Linklater, Polley), and several also star in the films they wrote (Bell, Delpy, Gerwig, Hawke, Seth Rogen). Here, though, we simply want to focus on their work as writers and highlight the written word — that part of the process that makes the rest of the process possible…
GRETA GERWIG
Notable writing credits: “Frances Ha” (2013)
What screenplay inspired you to become a screenwriter? I think “Another Year,” by Mike Leigh, is a great screenplay.
What are your three best screenwriting tips?Whenever you have an “idea,” as in a concept that you could explain to someone, like a hook or at worst a gimmick, that is a bad thing. It feels good, but it’s not good. The best ideas reveal themselves, you don’t “have” them. For me, anyway.
Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them — they’ll tell you who they are and what they’re up to.
I have gotten into baseball recently, and whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow. You strike out a lot, even if you’re great. read more »
December 11, 2013
Quote of the Day: H.L. Mencken
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
December 10, 2013
Read 24 of the Best Screenplays from 2013
‘Tis the season for finding great film scripts online. The studios are getting ready for award season by releasing final drafts and production drafts of the best films from 2013. Enjoy this holiday season by curling up with great movie scripts from 2013:
- August: Osage County script
- Dallas Buyers Club script
- One Chance script
- The Butler script
- 42 script
- Prisoners script
- Gravity script
- The Great Gatsby script
- The Invisible Woman script
- The Way Way Back script
- Enough Said script
- 12 Years a Slave script
- Fruitvale Station script
- The Place Beyond the Pines script
- Lone Survivor script
- Kill Your Darlings script
- Rush script
- Spring Breakers script
- The Spectacular Now script
- Monsters University script
- Frozen script
- The Croods script
- The Bling Ring script
- Before Midnight script
December 9, 2013
August: Osage County Script
The August: Osage County script was written by Tracy Letts based on his own play.
