MoviesOnline sat down with screenwriters Jonathan Nolan and David S. Goyer to talk about their new movie, “The Dark Knight,” directed by Christopher Nolan. The follow-up to “Batman Begins” stars Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldham, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman.
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Read it aloud, make sure there’s a favourite bit - and don’t fall into the ‘German funk trap’. Frank Cottrell Boyce who scripted 24 Hour Party People and A Cock and Bull Story, lays down his screenwriting golden rules.
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If the trailer to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made you feel like a kid again, you’re not alone — even among some of the heaviest hitters in Hollywood. Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (whose credits include Transformers; Mission: Impossible III; and J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek reboot) were equally [...]

 
Barry Levy could not get read. He had been kicking around town for years, working as a development executive for an animation studio, but the aspiring screenwriter couldn’t get anything of his own made.
Yet on the strength of one spec script, the multiple-perspective assassination thriller, “Vantage Point,” now a major motion picture starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew [...]

 
Nehst (pronounced ”next”) Studios chief Larry Meistrich — former honcho of The Shooting Gallery — is back, searching for undiscovered scripts. Take a behind-the-scenes look at his bid to give regular folks a chance to make movies with the pros.
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He’s the sultan of screams, the head honcho of horror, the duke of disgust — whether you measure by the sheer metric tonnage of his output or the harder-to-quantify level of his influence, Stephen King bestrides modern American horror like a colossus. And with horror film interpretations like Carrie, The Shining, Christine and The Dead [...]

In less than two weeks, midnight streets will crawl with young people (and, er, not-as-young people) in pointy hats and capes, out celebrating the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series. Offering some consolation to those sad about hoisting the butterbeer for the last time is the fact that the [...]

“I like movies fine, but we’re not film school people, so this isn’t —— ” Christopher Markus began, to which Stephen McFeely added, “A route to director or going to parties,” because, Mr. Markus concluded, “I really want to write, and it’s the only thing I’m good at.” Miraculously the tag-team conversation tracked. 
Co-writers for a dozen [...]

I’m a huge fan of Judd Apatow. If you don’t know his name perhaps you know his work: “Freaks and Geeks”, “Undeclared”, “The 40 Year-Old Virgin”, and his new movie, “Knocked Up.”  For the last few years he’s been making great stuff but now, thankfully, more people are starting to pay attention and he’s able [...]

THIS is a tale of two scripts, one that sold for a ton of money, one that remains twisting in the wind. Both are beautifully written, but in
Hollywood, while scripts are prized for great writing, they must also give a studio chief enough ammunition to comfortably answer the question: If I spend $100 million on [...]