Writer's block has left many screenwriters staring at the blinking cursor. AI tools can help them get over the finish line, but that raises a few questions: Did you write that story? Or did your ...

The screenplay is the "central nervous system" of any screen creation, says Alice Shearman, executive director of the New Zealand Writers Guild. And there are certain rules to follow if you want to ...

Writing for an animated film is like painting on an infinite canvas—there are literally no bounds. You don’t have to worry about expensive or dangerous stunts, keeping your sets small for the sake of ...

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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the buzziest scripts of the awards season with Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s ...

Deadline’s annual Read the Screenplay series highlights the scripts for the year’s buzziest awards-season movies. This year, we snagged all 10 Oscar-nominated adapted and original screenplays as ...

Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, ...

The Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Chinatown are all among the absolute greatest Oscar-winning screenplays of all time.