The life of a screenwriter is an interesting one. One moment you’re toiling away at your latest script, the next you might make amajor sale to a Hollywood studio. Over the years, plenty of screenwriters have offered their own advice for writing in the form of Skillshare classes as well as screenwriting books. The one screenwriting book that gained prominence over others isSave the Cat!byBlake Snyder. Blake Snyder was bold enough to dubSave The Cat!...

FilmmakerDanny Boylejust kicked off what’s sure to be months of interviews, appearances, and Q&As as part of the Oscar campaign for his new filmSteve Jobs—whichjust premiered at Telluride—but he’s already got his eye on what he wants to do for his follow-up. Boyle’s brilliant 1996 filmTrainspottingrightfully launched him into the public eye, and he’s been curious about adapting authorIrvine Welsh’s follow-up bookPornofor some time now. Word on aTrainspottingsequel has been heating upover the last couple years, and now Boyle tells Deadline that he’s planning for the follow-up to be his next film:...

Come June 10th,Warcraftwill finally invade the big screen. The long-awaited feature adaptation of the Blizzard Entertainment game directed byDuncan Jonestakes place in Azeroth where the existing civilization is about to come under the threat of another, the Orcs, who are forced to abandon their dying world and colonize another. With the armies bound to collide, the opposing leaders - human commander Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) and orc chieftain Durotan (Toby Kebbell) - must figure out how best to navigate a battle that could decide the fate of each race....

Today at E3, Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts revealed the first gameplay footage fromStar Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, the single-player adventure game set in a galaxy far, far away. The 15-minute trailer follows the game’s main character Cal Kestis, voiced byGothamandShamelessstarCameron Monaghan, a padawan who managed to survive the Palpatine’s deadly Order 66 inRevenge of the Sith. This looks like everything single-player fans wantedStar Wars: Battlefrontto be and more, basicallyUnchartedwith a lightsaber....

When HBO first announced thatDamon Lindelofwould be spearheading a brand new take onWatchmen, many assumed this was part of the pay cable network’s plan to find its nextGame of Thrones. Indeed, with the most popular TV series in HBO history ending and onlyWestworldcoming close to its level of popularity and ratings, HBO was on the hunt for “the next big thing,” andWatchmenseemed to fit that bill. But while the series has certainly earned immense critical acclaim and high ratings, fans have also noticed that the 9-episode first season is running through the storyveryquickly....

Netflix has revealed the release window forSquid Game: The Challenge, an upcoming reality show inspired by its hit South Korean seriesSquid Game.Squid Game: The Challengefollows 456 players as they compete through a series of trials inspired by the original show for a prize of $4.56 million. In 2021,Squid Gamequickly becameNetflix’s most-watched series, with over 1 billion hours viewedwithin its first month of release.Squid Gamealso became Netflix’s first non-English-language program to receive two Emmy nominations....

Whenever there’s a murder at the Arconia you will invariably find Charles Savage, Oliver Putnam, and Mabel Mora at the scene. WithOnly Murders in the BuildingSeason 3making a splash on Hulu this year, we finally got our chance to rendezvous with our favorite crime-solving trio from New York City once more. This new season has a lot more interesting characters apart from the leading trio, including a new star murder victim....

Animation is a unique medium with abilities that are completely its own. Capable of telling highly imaginative stories with virtually no visual limitations, animated movies are the perfect blank canvas for filmmakers to paint their most creative stories. Very often, the stories that these filmmakers tell are meant to appeal to children’s sense of wonder and their belief in magic. Since its inception, animation has been used to tell coming-of-age stories....

The superhero genre has quickly become the most popular movie genre today, sprouting blockbusters likeDeadpool & WolverineandAvengers: Endgame. These movies are some of the biggest box office successes ever, partly due to the big names attached to them and the sheer spectacle that accompanies them, which helps draw a crowd. Depending on how the character is adapted, these castings can help make or break a movie. While fans are privy to many perfect superhero castings, there are just as many horrible castings, which have fans questioning what the studios were thinking....

Batter up, one and all, the time has come for Prime Video to play ball. Amazon has officially greenlit the long-in-development series adaptation ofA League of Their Own, based on the 1992Penny Marshallfilm (objectively one of the greatest sports movies ever made). The “reinterpretation,” per the release, comes courtesy of executive producers and co-creatorsAbbi Jacobson(Broad City) andWill Graham(Mozart in the Jungle). Jacobson also stars in the series, alongsideChanté Adams, Emmy nomineeD’Arcy Carden, BAFTA winnerGbemisola Ikumelo,Kelly McCormack,Roberta Colindrez, andPriscilla Delgado....

Fox is switching around some of the dates on its calendar. The biggest move is takingAlita: Battle Angelout of the summer and moving it into December. The movie was originally slated to open on July 20th, but now it will hit theaters on December 21st. That’s going to put it up againstAquamanand theTransformersspinoff,Bumblebee, which is some serious competition for the manga adaptation. The movie starsRosa Salazaras an android who wants to find her place in the world....

American Crime Storywas one of the biggest surprises of 2016. Few could have foreseen that this “sensationalist” true crime anthology series about the trial ofO.J. Simpsonwould actually become one of the year’s most relevant and compelling dramas—and fromRyan Murphy, no less. So it’s with cautious optimism that we should probably approach the news that Murphy and Co. are currently eyeing theMonica Lewinskyscandal as a topic for a futureAmerican Crime Storyseason....

Andrew Garfieldis set to joinJessica Chastainin Fox Searchlight’s televangelist dramaThe Eyes of Tammy Faye, Collider has confirmed. Michael Showalter(The Big Sick) is set to direct from a script byAbe Sylvia(Dirty Girl), and the film is based onFenton BaileyandRandy Barbato’s acclaimed documentary of the same name. Chastain andKelly Carmichaelwill produce via their Freckle Films banner along withGigi PritzkerandRachel Shaneof MWM Studios. Showalter’s producing partner,Jordana Mollick(Hello, My Name is Doris) will serve as an executive producing....