So you’ve got an idea for a reality show—did you know there would most likely be $1000-$3000 of out-of-pocket expenses (as in, “yours”) to get it set up to even pitch? This is just one of the many startling, sobering facts available in Donna Michelle Anderson’s book The Show Starter Reality TV Made Simple System.
Posthumously produced screenplays are a rarity in Hollywood, and posthumously produced screenplays by American literary legends are practically non-existent. However, that’s exactly what we have in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond: the last, “lost” original screenplay by Tennessee Williams.
Possessing an uncanny ability to convey demented comedy and heart-rending drama, often in the same breath, the late David Foster Wallace — novelist (Infinite JestConsider the Lobster), short-fiction author (Oblivion) — was a postmodern American literary titan of the first degree.
The Deal. The Queen. The Last King of Scotland. The Other Boleyn Girl. And now, The Damned United: If it’s a film about a larger-than-life politico with crisp dialogue, sharp characterization, and scenes that zing, odds are the screenplay is the work of Peter Morgan (whose credits also include Longford and Frost/Nixon). Morgan’s most recent historical drama, The Damned United (adapted from [...]
One of the fall’s most buzzed-about films is An Education, starring Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a 16-year-old Londoner who meets a cultured, impossibly charming, if older, man named David (Peter Sarsgaard) in 1962. Directed by Lone Scherfig, An Education marks internationally renowned novelist Nick Hornby’s first screenplay adapted from another writer’s work (a 10-page memoir by [...]
It’s not a joke. I must admit I had to do some research as to whether or not Anvil! The Story of Anvil was a documentary or a “mockumentary,” à la This is Spinal Tap (the similarities abound). Something about heavy metal bands in the early 1980s just seems too ridiculous to be real.
Have you ever heard a mashup? It’s one song that was originally two songs from different genres that have been spliced together. Depending on the deejay, a mashup can sound pretty damn cool — the different aspects of the two kinds of songs complement and comment on each other, often to sensational effect.
Was Hugh Grant’s young, single Prime Minister your favorite character in Love Actually? If you’ve ever been curious about a British Prime Minister’s sex life, the late BBC writer Terence Feely has seven different answers for you.
No summer blockbuster is complete without an off-the-charts action scene, but Script recognizes that piecing together the perfect sequence can be difficult. So, we found someone who has proven his prowess when it comes to pushing the limits of film action.
