Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with Maria, the Maria Callas snapshot-biopic starring Angelina Jolie. Pablo ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival ...

A screenplay is the written version of a film or an episode of television. Simple, right? Wrong. Unlike a completed work, such as a novel or a short story, a screenplay is the first in a long series ...

“Judging a screenplay from a finished film,” an apocalyptically disheartened screenwriter once told me, “is like arriving at a murder scene and instantly deciding that the victim had it coming.” It’s ...

Setting out a script in a good format makes it easier for an actor - and anyone else - to read. However, what matters most is that what you do is laid out clearly and is easy to read. • Each new scene ...

All television writing can be summed up in one word: economy. TV pilots must communicate the world, characters, genre, stakes, and tone to the audience—all in the span of a single episode. One of the ...

CBBC is running a writing competition for 6-14 year-olds across the UK to write a short sketch for Horrible Histories. The winning script will be turned into an actual sketch for the Horrible ...