THE FIRST LADY
THE FIRST LADY LOGLINE Premise: The first First Lady to divorce a sitting US President flees to her native Los Angeles
Writers Guild and Studios Reach a Tentative Four-Year Deal, Protecting the Health Plan
NPR reported the April 2026 agreement, which runs a year longer than usual and was reached in less than a
Reading the Competition: Why Screenwriters Study Studio Campaign Scripts
No Film School’s December 2025 compilation gathered scripts from A24, Amazon MGM and 20th Century Studios for educational use Reading the
Manoj Tapadia: “No director can make a good film out of a bad screenplay”
The screenwriter of such films as Cheeni Kum and Manorama Six Feet Under and director of Bharat Bhagya Vidhata on
From Second City To KPop Demon Hunters: How Variety’s 2025 Screenwriters To Watch Broke Through
Variety’s class included a seven-figure spec sale, a spec adaptation that landed at Paramount, Netflix’s most-watched film and a Cannes
Selling A Spec In 2026: What This Autumn’s Deals And The New WGA Contract Tell Screenwriters
Original scripts are still selling, with recent deals at Netflix and at Focus Features with Blumhouse Atomic Monster, while the
Inside The Nicholl Fellowships: Five New Screenwriters, A Global Network Of Partners And The Long Road From Page To Screen
The Academy’s 2025-2026 fellows include writers from San Antonio, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, chosen through a program now
Start With The Ending: What Sean Baker’s Writing Process Teaches About Building A Screenplay
The Oscar-winning writer-director of Anora has described a process built on notes, Post-its, a living script and, above all, knowing
The 2026 WGA Deal: What Screenwriters Won, What They Pay For And Why It Runs Four Years
Members ratified the new Minimum Basic Agreement with 90.4 percent support, securing a record 321 million dollar health fund infusion,
Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters To Watch: What This Year’s Class Says About Breaking In
The 2026 list honours writers with studio specs, festival-winning features, a reboot and an animation pedigree, showing how many different
Ten Years Of The Black List Episodic Lab: How A Small Program Became A Pipeline Into Television Writing
Run with Women In Film and supported by the Golden Globe Foundation, the lab has trained more than 55 writers
Can AI Read Your Script? A Test Of The Coverage Tool Quilty Suggests Human Readers Are Still Needed
No Film School’s Jason Hellerman ran well-known screenplays through an AI analysis service and found buggy reports, weak story reads
Why the Social Reckoning is considered an original screenplay
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network has yet another key difference from the first film. Screenplay News Author:
Why the Social Reckoning is considered an original screenplay
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network has yet another key difference from the first film. Screenplay News Author: