The Craft
Writing for Film and Television 2013
December 20, 2013
Hungry Like The Wolf
Terence Winter chronicles his tenacious climb from unknown law school grad to sitcom writer to Boardwalk Empire creator and scribe behind the new white-collar crime saga The Wolf of Wall Street.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
December 13, 2013
Rust and Revenge
Scott Cooper opens up about the deep, personal losses that fueled Out of the Furnace, a tragic tale of brotherly fidelity set amid the rusting steel mills of Pennsylvania.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
November 27, 2013
Jane Austen, Video Blogger
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries' Bernie Su explains how he helped turn Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice into a hit, Emmy-winning Web series that raised nearly half a million dollars through the power of crowdfunding.
Written by Dylan Callaghan
November 18, 2013
A Song of Harlem
After six years out of the spotlight, Kasi Lemmons returns with an adaptation of Black Nativity, the hit musical by legendary Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes.
Written by Todd Aaron Jensen
November 01, 2013
They Liked to Watch
Masters of Sex showrunner Michelle Ashford explains why, more than a half century after Masters and Johnson began their groundbreaking research on human sexuality, the subject is still a complete mystery.
Written by Denis Faye
October 18, 2013
Lessons from Mom
Gemma Baker, co-creator of the new CBS sitcom Mom, talks about the challenge of trying to make addiction funny and what she's learned from ber-showrunner Chuck Lorre.
Written by Rob Feld
October 11, 2013
A Sailor's Lament
J.C. Chandor forgoes the use of dialogue to script the harrowing story of a lone man at war with nature and himself in All is Lost.
Written by Rob Feld
October 04, 2013
Floating Weightless, Coming Home
Some might call Gravity science fiction, but Alfonso & Jonás Cuarón, the father and son writing team behind the new space thriller, describe the film as a metaphorical journey grounded in realism.
Written by Denis Faye
September 20, 2013
Prison Break
Four years after The Black List pronounced Prisoners one of Hollywood's best unproduced scripts, Aaron Guzikowski's terrifying tale of a father's desperate search for his missing daughter finally sees the light of day.
Written by Todd Aaron Jensen
September 13, 2013
Telenovela
On the new FX crime drama The Bridge, co-exec producer Elwood Reid takes a novelistic approach to the story of two very different detectives brought together by a murder on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Written by Dylan Callaghan