🏳️ Inneresting #255 - Taking the L
When there's no way to win, what's there to do?
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Featured Friday: Revenge
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, it’s all about revenge as we look at how a lust for retribution can drive characters beyond their normal limits and fuel stories of any size. Our collection
Scriptnotes Recap: Episode 688, Writing Jokes with Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia is a Scriptnotes regular. He is the second most frequent guest after Aline Brosh McKenna (the Joan Rivers of Scriptnotes), making him practically a staple of the show, yet after two and a half years as producer this is the first time I’d actually been able to
Scriptnotes Recap: Episode 685, Page and Stage with Leslye Headland
Leslye Headland was a theater kid. She is now, of course, one of the most prolific and productive storytellers around, seemingly always writing and directing plays, movies and TV shows all at the same time. But when we sat down with her to focus on her most recent play Cult
Scriptnotes Recap: Episode 684, Landing a Series with Eric Kripke
I have a confession to make: I don’t watch the The Boys. I know! I believe everyone who tells me that it’s great! John is continually disappointed in me whenever I tell him that I haven’t seen it yet! And after having Eric Kripke on the show,
🤖 Inneresting #254 - AI-yai-yai
Why did we program these artificial life forms to feel stress?
Featured Friday: Beach (Movie) Reads
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we travel to the beach – that summer staple of sand and surf that looks like it should be a little slice of paradise, but often ends up being anything
Inneresting #253 - Hollywood Ruined (x) for Me
Solve for all values of (x)
Featured Friday: Magical Dads
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate Father’s Day with one of our favorite sub-genres: the Magical Dad movie. See, a typical middle-aged man is too stubborn and aloof for standard narrative conflict
🍿 Inneresting #252 - Make it a Blockbuster Night
In the Summer a livelier sound design pumps from speakers 'round the room; In the Summer an audience's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of BOOM KA-POW DINOSAUR NOISES DINOSAUR NOISES SPAAAAAaaaaaCE SHIP. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall 16 (presented by eMagine) We're here today for
Featured Friday: Pride
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate Pride month with some of our favorites LGBTQIA+ stories! Our collection includes: * A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza * A Single Man by Tom Ford
Inneresting #251 - What's your writing style?
Don't worry, if you don't know which of these types of writer you are (or maybe you think you're more than one), no plot device is going to sort you against your will.
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What is Heretic about? Evil twins.
Heretic (written by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods) is a chamber horror film where two Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, are welcomed into the home of the inquisitive Mr. Reed to talk about religion. What they don’t realize is that they’re in for more of a
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🕴️🌎 Inneresting #250 - Everybody Is Out To Get You
It's not paranoia when they really are all out to get you.
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Featured Friday: Cannes Heat
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we slip away to the south of France to look at some notable award winners at the Cannes film festival. Our collection includes: * All We Imagine As Light by
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Lessons from Across the Spider-Verse: The Diorama Scene
The whole story in miniature.
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Inneresting #249 - Forgiveness and Mercy
It's not right, but it's okay?
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Featured Friday: Bottle Episodes
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we focus on those episodes of a TV show that keep their characters contained to one set, better known as bottle episodes. Beloved by audiences for the great character
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🎨 Inneresting #248 - Where Film Meets Fine Art
Paintings that inspire movie moments, paintings featured in movies, and movies about painting.
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Featured Friday: Tough Mothers
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate Mother’s Day with stories that explore how rewarding and challenging motherhood can be, and the unique relationships that can exist between moms and their kids. Our
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The Production Assistant's Guide to the Lunch Run
On Scriptnotes, John and Craig asked our listeners for their advice on the one ubiquitous and foundational experience of every early job in the entertainment industry: the lunch run. And like the good PA’s you are (or used to be), wow did you all deliver. We were flooded with
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🏃 Short Answer Sprint
For this week's rebroadcast, we highlight some evergreen questions from readers in 2007.
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👠↩️ Inneresting #247 - You Were Supposed to be the Good Guys
From heel turns to sudden self-awareness, sometimes it's not easy to know who the baddies are.
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Featured Friday: Summer Camp
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we’re heading off to Summer Camp, where kids can model independence away from their parents, figure out who they really are, and get into plenty of trouble. Our