‘Repo Men’ gets raked over critical coals

Jude Law and Forest Whitaker may be big stars, but their latest movie, "Repo Men," isn't exactly Oscar quality. From the film's premise (if you don't pay for your donated organ, it's ripped out of you) to its buckets of onscreen gore, critics are having a bloody good time reviewing the flick.

Even in gun-crazy America, most of us aren't shooting things as part of our day-to-day routine. So most Americans actually know very little about guns.

Universal has purchased David Guggenheim's spec Safe House for $600k against $900k, winning out against two other movie studios in a bidding war.

Requiem for a Stereotype

Apparently, only fundamentalist Bible-thumpers and bigoted ideologues are allowed to use the word "redemptive." This word is no longer to be included in a lexicon of terms suitable for discussing literary themes. Let me explain...

Newsvine Movie Part II

Today I shipped off question clips to two of the participants in our Newsvine Movie Experiment. I sure hope these fine people will put up with my gyrations.

Top Five Ways to Ensure Your Screenplay Never Sells

Every year tens of thousands of screenplays are written and shipped to Hollywood. Several hundred make it to development, and a lucky few get made into movies.

After you come up with your own system for generating ideas, the next step is to put them in some recognizable story form (the basic plot idea), build your central conflict (the story premise sheet), then build your character and underlying themes (the thematic premise sheet).

Sunday Evening. Beverly Hills. Sitting in front of me is the writer of Bollywood's two of the biggest hits this year - Fanaa and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.

While the first part was heavily loaded with insights, knowledge, highly straightforward opinions and views - the second part doesn't let go of the tight grip over you… Kartik begins Day 2 of the the Conference by attending a speech by Sriram Raghavan (Ek Hasina Thi).

The Film and Television Institute of India arranged a Screenwriters Conference in Pune. The first ever. I'm so blown away by the coverage of Kartik's article...

Welcome…Somewhere during the recent battles here on Artful Writer, it occurred to me that while we spend a whole lot of time criticizing our industry for the way it treats writers, I've never seen anyone lay out a reasonable description of how the ideal industry would operate …

The classic film 'Casablanca' topped the list of "101 Greatest Screenplays," a first-ever ranking by members of the Writers Guild of America.

Funny blog by a couple of screenwriters