John Gatins starred in several independent horror movies, including Witchboard 2: The Devil’s Doorway and Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, before he got a call from Steven Spielberg about adapting a Richard Matheson short story.

Thanks to programming like Sex and the City and box-office hits like Bridesmaids, studios no longer shy away from women leads talking, with candor and humor, about their sex lives. Script sat down with Gabrielle Allan and Jennifer Crittenden to discuss their taboo-smashing rom-com, What’s Your Number?, in theaters Friday.

Abduction is a high-paced thriller about a high school kid on the run to find the truth about his past. Screenwriter Shawn Christensen puzzles out the Taylor Lautner-starrer, in theaters September 23.

When asked to adapt a script about a man with no name, no backstory, and barely any dialogue, screenwriter Hossein Amini knew he hit the jackpot. “I love silences,” Amini says of Drive, the film he adapted from a book by James Sallis.

Screenwriter Mark Goffman (White Collar, The West Wing) became fascinated with the world of ventriloquism when his shy mother-in-law used it to make a speech at a family event. Several months and thousands of miles later, he had a documentary about this lovable, tough, heartwarming world of professional and amateur ventriloquists.

As producer of the Oscar®-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and writer-director of the acclaimed HBO drama Pu-239, Burns has a reputation for deftly handling tales of panic, both personal and widespread. It’s a testament to those skills that Contagion, opening September 9, feels fresh, though we’ve been scared by germs before.

Bridesmaids producer Judd Apatow has had more than one young female screenwriter under his wing as of late. When Stacey Harman pitched her idea of three women going on a business trip where everything happens (except their business), Apatow took notice.

Through his childhood friendship with author Kathryn Stockett, Tate Taylor saw The Help long before the rest of the world made it a New York Times best-seller. He didn’t know then that the film he imagined as a grassroots indie would become a major release, backed by the muscle of Disney distribution, opening on August 10.

In the past few decades, the movement of underground superheroes has gone from a sparse few to several hundred. Filmmaker Michael Barnett felt compelled to capture the story of these Superheroes in his new documentary, which premieres on HBO August 8.