Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin discuss screenwriting and related topics in the film and television industry, everything from getting stuff written... more
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John and Craig look at three extraordinary news stories and ask, How Would this be a Movie? Stories include the... more
John welcomes Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Homeward Bound) to talk about her experience... more
Live from the Austin Film Festival, John joins panelists Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia) and Erica Harrell & Desirée Proctor... more
Many of the biggest AI models have been trained on film and TV dialogue, and writers are furious. John and... more
John and Craig welcome Brian Jordan Alvarez & Stephanie Koenig (English Teacher) and Jac Schaeffer (Agatha All Along, WandaVision) to... more
John welcomes playwright, novelist and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes to discuss having his first two movies — Challengers and Queer —... more
John and Craig take a deep dive with the Devil, exploring the unholy trinity of satanic films: Rosemary’s... more
John and Craig analyze the iconic 1995 comedy Clueless, and why they’re majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with it.... more
John and Craig explore character agency in everything from scenes to entire series. They look at what agency looks like... more
John and Craig look at how writers (and other humans) handle the anxiety of uncertainty, from election nights to green... more