As any aspiring screenwriter knows, the process of writing a movie script isn’t easy. But if you break it down into its discrete parts—the type of script, a strong premise, solid plot, believable ...

November is the time of year when movie studios release the best they’ve got. Take Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” a time-dilating science-fiction film starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne ...

Maybe you’re thinking about writing a screenplay, but don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’re interested in following in the footsteps of writer-directors such as Mindy Kaling or Jordan Peele.

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 ...

A while back I described Fountain, a markup syntax for screenwriting (see “Formatting Screenplays with Fountain,” 5 March 2015). To recap briefly, Fountain allows screenwriters to use just about any ...

When a playwright starts working on their play, they might not think about the format first. But once inspiration strikes, the structure of their script is what brings their vision to life on stage.

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 ...

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 ...

Noam Kroll is an award winning Los Angeles based filmmaker, and founder of the boutique production company Creative Rebellion. He blogs about filmmaking at his website NoamKroll.com, where this post ...

You may recognize Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant from “Reno 911,” which they created and starred in. What you probably don’t know is that their movies have grossed over a billion dollars at the ...

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