WriterDuet is a free cloud screenwriting software. It comes with some advanced tools that help you write professional screenplays. You don’t have to focus on the formatting; just write your script and ...

The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

L.A.-based filmmaker Noam Kroll is currently working on his second feature. He keeps a production blog at his website NoamKroll.com. In this blog post, he writes about focusing on characters in order ...

George Lucas defied many of the commandments of screenwriting, so why is the Star Wars saga so memorable? We ask a script expert. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm ...

Exclusive: A new study tries to answer what Hollywood's anonymous gatekeepers think makes a great screenplay. Studios, producers and agencies receive countless spec scripts – original feature length ...

When you watch a lot of film and television, you begin to sense a pattern. In the beginning, you meet characters. In the middle, you see them struggle. At the end, you watch as they succeed or fail.