Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was considering the possibility that there might be more to screen drama than external conflict-driven plotting when, as if hit by a thunderbolt, a new paradigm of ...

How do you create a memorable female character? It helps if you get it right from the very beginning, as Joseph L. Mankiewicz did in his screenplay for All About Eve when he introduced the woman who ...

“Watchmen” showrunner Damon Lindelof thinks if you repeat the word three times, “we can express exactly how important it is” to a great script. “It’s really the whole ball of wax,” he says. “When it ...

Whiplash was Damien Chazelle’s feature-length debut, and the film immediately proved his talent as both a screenwriter and a director. The story follows a young boy named Andrew Neiman, who enrolls at ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...

The lesson of the original “Jurassic Park” was that man shouldn’t attempt to tamper with nature. The lesson of “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic Park III” and now “Jurassic World” is that ...

People often point to sexism in movies for what happens onscreen, but really, it's in play before our heroine has a chance to say a line. It happens when she’s cast. It happens when she’s costumed. It ...