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We Are Bored. And That's a Good Thing!
The Poster for 'Black Bag' Tim Schildberger - March 18th, 2025 This is an optimistic post. I promise I come at this with the most...
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Mar 184 min read
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Why The Oscars made me sad (and annoyed)
Sean Baker with one of his 2025 Academy Awards. Courtesy of NPR ‘Anora’s' win for Best Original Screenplay is a slap in the face to the...
tim7604
Mar 34 min read
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Road Trip Revelations
by Tim Schildberger - November 23, 2024 I recently went on a quick road trip to the middle of the USA. It was fascinating on many levels,...
tim7604
Nov 23, 20244 min read
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Using the Election to Improve Your Writing
By Tim Schildberger - November 12, 2024 Trigger reassurance…this is not an article written to make you feel any better or worse about the...
tim7604
Nov 12, 20244 min read
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'Anora' - Script Review
By Tim Schildberger - First published in Script Magazine Anora – winner of this year’s Palm d’Or at Cannes (the festival’s top prize) has...
tim7604
Nov 12, 20244 min read
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Write LA - New Season, Big Changes
Welcome to new beginning of sorts for the Write LA script competition. We’re changing a few things, and I figured I’d explain why! For...
tim7604
Oct 31, 20243 min read
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"The Fall Guy" Script Review
By Tim Schildberger - May 20th 2024 On paper, “The Fall Guy” ticks all the boxes. Great lead actors at the peak of their powers who have...
tim7604
May 23, 20243 min read
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What we want, and why we aren't getting it.
Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - April 16th, 2024 We, the global film and TV audience are making it very clear what we want to watch,...
tim7604
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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Memo to Studios - July 2023
Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - July 18, 2023 To: Any Studio Currently Spending $100+ Million to Make a Movie From: The Audience...
tim7604
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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Script Review: 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny'
Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - July 6th, 2023 ** No real spoilers in here. ** There’s a lot of talk about why the latest chapter...
tim7604
Jul 6, 20234 min read
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Why The Audience is More Important Than You
Tim Schildberger - Script Magazine - June 22, 2023 I saw a video clip recently, where a very earnest actor/writer insisted creators...
tim7604
Jun 27, 20231 min read
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This Common Piece Of Advice Might Be Ruining Your Script
TIM SCHILDBERGER AUGUST 28, 2022 One of the most often repeated bits of screenwriting advice bestowed upon the aspiring, from the...
tim7604
Aug 29, 20221 min read
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Could a “Vomit Draft” Be a Terrible Idea?
A “vomit draft” is only worthwhile if you are emotionally prepared to write a radically different second draft. This article originally...
tim7604
Mar 4, 20222 min read
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Farewell Lindsey Pearlman
Hello, As someone who has worked hard over the last six years to create a community for writers and actors, I can tell you most of the...
tim7604
Feb 21, 20223 min read
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Our 2021 Winners are repped thanks to us!!
HUGE NEWS!! We are thrilled to announce out 2021 Grand Prize Winners Mads Gauger and Christan Leonard have found representation, thanks...
tim7604
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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Script Review: 'The Power of the Dog'
The script for this movie, written and directed by the supremely talented Jane Campion...is bad. Quite bad actually. The film looks...
tim7604
Dec 5, 20213 min read
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Watch our Grand Prize Winner Video!
We're thrilled to reveal the video of the reading of our Grand Prize Winning Script! We did something different this year - it's more of...
tim7604
Nov 22, 20211 min read
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Write LA '21 Grand Prize Winner
Congratulations to the Grand Prize Winners of Write LA '21 - Mads Gauger and Christan Mary Leonard!! Their Pilot script 'That Woman' has...
tim7604
Oct 7, 20211 min read
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The 2021 Write LA Finalists
We are thrilled to share the five writers / writing teams who have risen to the top as our Write LA '21 Finalists. These writers will...
tim7604
Oct 1, 20211 min read
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Announcing the Write LA 2021 Semifinalists!
We are thrilled to announce the 2021 Write LA Semifinalists. These fifteen writers rose to the top of a very crowded field with memorable...
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Sep 15, 20212 min read
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