Screenwriter Craig Mazin on going sober with a finale of HANGOVER PART III

By Jenna Milly How do you wake up with a hangover and decide this will be your last one? That’s the question screenwriter Craig Mazin faced when sitting down with director Todd Phillips to write the last and final edition of drunken comedy series, The Hangover Part III. “We wanted to end it, and we

by Chris Soth As the screenwriters in my mentorship program are finishing up their terrific screenplays, and deep in their third acts, this question often comes up: What end should our villain/antagonist/bad guy come to?  Here's a prime example, from A TON of cop movies we've seen, even if no specific title comes to mind:

  Writing the origin story to The Wizard of Oz was a longtime passion for screenwriter Mitch Kapner. Too bad everyone in Hollywood told him he was crazy as soon as he mentioned the idea. “It’s an idea I had and would talk about years and years and years ago,” said Kapner. Studio executives would

The former storyboard artist for movies like Despicable Me and Ice Age: Continental Drift, Cal Brunker, wrote and directed his first feature animation, Escape from Planet Earth with his writing partner Bob Barlen. This is the first full-length animation that the Weinstein Company has done from start to finish, and it has an A-list cast.

How do you manage the comedy, tone and dialog when you’re writing a script for comedians Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy? Very carefully says screenwriter Craig Mazin who penned the R-rated comedy Identity Thief staring these two actors. “There is no one joke or one piece of dialog worth bringing the movie down around it.

  Writer/director Richard LaGravenese is somewhat of an expert when it comes to adaptations. With titles like Water for Elephants, P.S. I Love You, The Horse Whisperer and The Bridges of Madison County under his belt, taking on the newest in the teen-novel-turned-movie-phenomenon – Beautiful Creatures – seemed like an obvious choice. “This one, at

Los Angeles, CA, September 20, 2011 – ScreenwritingU, an award-winning, Los Angeles-based company that provides professional online screenwriting classes and assistance with selling a screenplay, is pleased to announce it has licensed Chris Soth’s Mini-Movie Method. With ScreenwritingU’s newsletter subscribers, clients, and social networking sites, the company keeps in regular contact with 100,000 screenwriters, making

Steven R. Monroe signed on to direct A Noble Lie, a film that Los Angeles-based production/management company Little Studio Films has put on the development fast track. The film is being co-produced with screenwriter/producer A J Ferrara’s Magic City Pictures. Monroe directed It Waits, released by Sony Worldwide, and among his other credits, he has

"I have been involved with Screenwriting U since early 2008. At the time I was a writer with a lot of concepts swimming around in my head but zero idea on what it took to be successful in the business. I started with Hal and Cheryl Croasmun's Pro series class – a six month crash

Here is a partial list of ScreenwritingU's accomplishments and accolades. Script Magazine Script Magazine listed us as #1 in their upcoming issue in an article titled “Top 9 Online Screenwriting Courses, Plus One.”   You can see it in the July/August 2010 issue that has already been sent out to their online subscribers and will soon