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The new Seth Rogen and Zac Efron comedy Neighbors is a simple concept that took a lot of work to get right. Writing partners Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien said they pitched several projects to Rogen before he finally decided this was the one he liked. After that, they developed a pitch. Why not

ScreenwritingU Alum Scotty Cornfield (ProSeries 37) has been hired by UK-based director Cyrus Trafford and producer Ryan Hamilton of Arclight Films to write a treatment and screenplay for a feature film about a gang member in an American prison. Scotty responded to director Cyrus Trafford’s Linkedin advertisement about the film and offered his expertise as a former homicide

The Discovery Channel has bought  ScreenwritingU Alum (ProSeries 45) Ron Chepesiuk’s documentary-“The Frank Matthews Story: The Rise and Disappearance of Frank Matthews, Kingpin,” which Ron co-directed and co-produced. The documentary will be available for showing on Discovery’s worldwide affiliates, through its film distributor Nelson Madison Films beginning the summer of 2014, Ron also published a

Writing and producing a documentary about the lemurs of Madagascar is no easy task. Transportation is difficult, roads can be in place one week and suddenly gone the next and some lemur habitats on the island are a little more than inaccessible. But that didn’t stop writer/producer Drew Fellman from achieving his dream of bringing

A-list screenwriter Nick Stoller of Yes Man, Get Him to the Greek and The Five-Year Engagement fame is back for Muppets Most Wanted and this time, Kermit is on a rampage. Well, it looks like Kermit is on a rampage, but actually it is Kermit’s doppelganger, the evil Constantine, who is out to do no

How do you take a novel beloved by young adults all over the world and make it into a feature length film while keeping the fans happy? Very faithfully says screenwriter Evan Daugherty about his new movie Divergent.  Daugherty says he spent more than a year adapting the young adult book by Veronica Roth into

ScreenwritingU Alum Drew Foerster (ProSeries 17, MSC 1) had his original, broad comedy screenplay titled ROCK DAD optioned by producer Susan Dynner of ABERRATION FILMS. Susan Dynner was VP of Creative Affairs for Charlie Sheen and Nick Casavettes' Ventura Films.  Since then, she has produced the Sundance award winning BRICK, and FREE RIDE starring Anna Paquin.    Drew

ScreenwritingU Alum Jeff Blyth (Proseries 46) has been hired to write and direct the sci-fi feature film, BLUE LIGHTS. Jeff was recommended to producer Jacqueline Gault at HotSquatch Entertainment by a mutual friend in the industry to direct the film.  After Jeff read the script and novel the story was based on, he pitched the producer

“The script that we shot was almost the same as the script that we set up,” says Geoff Moore, co-writer and director, of his new indie comedy Better Living Through Chemistry. Shooting the script you wrote is a rarity in Hollywood. Things have a tendency to change once more people get involved in the story

How do you sell a spec script in Hollywood? It used to be that a writer would have to acquire representation, an agent or a manager, who could send the spec material out into the marketplace and hope a studio or production company would make an offer. That was before The Black List, an industry