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 ...

After working on such films as ‘The Ice Storm,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ and ‘Synecdoche, New York,’ she became a stills photographer on movie sets. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mary ...

Morris Chapdelaine always has a daunting stack of scripts on his desk. As an indie producer, he reads about three a week and farms out the rest to interns and film students, who send back detailed ...

When Scott Frank was a child, his father, Barry, bought a small Cessna airplane, and on weekends the two of them would fly. This was the mid-nineteen-seventies, in Los Gatos, California. Barry was a ...