If you’re a thriller film aficionado or just love to watch movies on the edge of your seat, then here you go. I love a good thriller, so when Maine’s own Stephen King tweets that he wishes he wrote this one after watching it, I think we were all curious. I mean, it attracted his attention, and … Read more
Don Coscarelli’s mom wrote a script for Phantasm II several years before her son got around to making his version of the sequel One of the horror genre’s many low budget indie classics is the 1979 film Phantasm (watch it HERE), which was made on a budget of around $300,000 by writer/director Don Coscarelli when he was … Read more
Don Coscarelli’s mom wrote a script for Phantasm II several years before her son got around to making his version of the sequel One of the horror genre’s many low budget indie classics is the 1979 film Phantasm (watch it HERE), which was made on a budget of around $300,000 by writer/director Don Coscarelli when he was … Read more
I am obsessed with the comfy, cozy, iconic murder mystery television series Murder, She Wrote, starring Dame Angela Lansbury (may she rest in peace). I fell in love with it while watching with my mom growing up, and as an adult, I have seen the full series several times over. It’s that perfect rainy day binge. As … Read more
Sometimes it’s all about nostalgia and I totally went down that road watching the 1997 block buster, award-winning Good Will Hunting, arguably one of the best movies of all time about a gifted janitor working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Like so many of us, we Google things about movies we’re watching and while doing that, I came … Read more
One might assume that writing songs for an album and writing songs for a film’s soundtrack are two entirely separate forms of artistic processes. But as many songwriters will tell you, the experiences are actually remarkably similar. In both cases, a story is told through music — an image created in the mind’s eye using … Read more
When it comes to reboots of popular franchises, there’s no mystery: Hollywood is forever on the hunt for a sure thing, and a well-established brand, with entrenched fans (and thus as large potential customer base) makes for as close to a winning bet as you can get. And so almost everything made by Hollywood these … Read more
A new feature film based on the classic CBS crime drama Murder, She Wrote is in the works at Universal Pictures. According to Variety, Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo — the screenwriters behind Sony’s new biographical comedy-drama film Dumb Money — are attached to pen a Murder, She Wrote movie for Universal. Spider-Man franchise … Read more
Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, and more wrote letters in support of Danny Masterson before he was sentenced to thirty years in prison. That ’70s Show star Danny Masterson was sentenced to thirty years in prison yesterday after being found guilty of two counts of sexual assault. Prior to the sentencing, more than fifty people wrote … Read more
Christopher Nolan says that he wrote the script for the Oppenheimer movie in the first person. In order to get into the head of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan did something he’s never done before — he wrote the script in the first person. “I actually wrote in the first-person, which I’ve never done before,“Christopher … Read more