Tim Robinson's new HBO series The Chair Company is getting praise for a lot of reasons. It's a surprising cringe comedy with absolutely paranoid energy, and Robinson is bringing his signature unhinged ...

In the scene, Kate comes back to her crappy apartment, made crappier from a fire-bombing by the tracksuit mafia bros. She finds Yelena waiting for her. Yelena asks her where Clint Barton (Jeremy ...

A moment of revelation. A slip into magical realism. A character whose arc perfectly exemplifies the show creator’s goals with a series. All of these — and more — are the stuff of “key scenes” in ...

There are many elements that go into telling a story onscreen successfully. An audience may not realize it, but as writer/director/actor/crew, you must be aware of ...

At the Motion Picture and Television Fund campus in Woodland Hills over the weekend, a group of mostly elder writers gathered in a brightly-lit room to shed light on a taboo topic: how to write good ...

Forget the giant, rotating spaceships or gargantuan red mountains of Mars. The hardest scene to write in Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” was set inside a conference room, on Earth. Screenwriter Drew ...

Every spring, some teenage hearts leap with the kind of joy that Paulo Coelho describes as “sometimes a blessing, but … often a conquest.” Others break all over the Internet. “The entire [teen writing ...

In 'Making a Scene,' on shelves Tuesday, the actress shares childhood memories and Hollywood workplace traumas alike. By Seija Rankin Senior Editor Before Constance Wu‘s essay collection hit shelves ...

The co-creator discusses the Emmy-nominated pilot episode, co-written with Donald Glover, which serves as an intro to the world of the serial killer Dre (Dominique Fishback). By Esther Zuckerman When ...