From Fleabag to Vladimir: why has breaking the fourth wall has become so common?

In film and television, this is called “breaking the fourth wall”. It is a ploy of metafiction: a kind of self-aware mode of ...

This True Story Brought Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson to Broadway

The Fear of 13,” about a man who spent two decades on death row for a murder he didn’t commit, is a story that the playwright ...
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How this food doc filmmaker learned to write cinematically

I think we’ve all read that one script where everything is technically correct, but it's flat without any descriptive writing ...

How Bob Odenkirk and Director Ben Wheatley Built Their Shape-Shifting Action Movie 'Normal'

When Bob Odenkirk was shooting "Nobody," his 2021 action movie, that film's writer, Derek Kolstad, had an idea. It was on the ...
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Screenplays aren't novels, so stop writing them like they are

It is totally possible to move between writing screenplays and writing books, and many, many writers have done so. But to get ...
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From bloody scenes to strange phrasing and accents, 'Fargo' star opened up about making of classic film

Peter Stormare regaled a packed Fargo Theatre crowd with behind-the-scenes stories from the making of the Coen brothers ...

Joe Eszterhas’ Wild Tales, from Writing ‘Basic Instinct’ on Cocaine and Jack Daniels to an Unhinged Visit with Mel Gibson

Joe Eszterhas talks about creating 'Basic Instinct,' how Spielberg almost had him direct, and why Huey Newton liked Rolling ...
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