The One

It's been a long while since we've last cracked open the Movieline One-Page Screenplay vault and added another starlet-slim volume to its stacks. For those microscript lovers among you, then, we have some good news: The writing team of Michael...

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The One-Page Screenplay

We're thrilled to now present the latest addition to Movieline's ongoing One-Page Screenplay Project, the industry's leading repository of budget-friendly material for the New Hollywood Economy. Today's offering comes to us from the husband-and-wife screenwriting team of Juliet Snowden and...

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The One-Page Screenplay

Welcome back to Movieline's One-Page Screenplay project, the screenwriting revolution that's single-handedly obliterating the brass-fastener industry. Coming soon: One-Page Screenplay for Kindle! And One-Tweet Screenplay! And Facebook Screenplay Updates! Today's guest screenwriter is Megan Holley, who wrote Sunshine Cleaning, the...

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The One-Page Screenplay

After a short hiatus, we're extremely pleased to announce the return of Movieline's One-Page Screenplay. Did you miss it? Of course you did. In today's auteur-centric cinematic environment -- where films regularly run into a third, completely unnecessary hour --...

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The One-Page Screenplay

We have a real treat in store for today's One-Page Screenplay: TS Faull is the screenwriter of Grimm Love -- an award-winning film based on the events of Germany's hugely notorious consensual cannibalism case, starring Thomas Kretschmann and Felicity herself,...

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The One-Page Screenplay

It's time for another entry to our growing catalog of One-Page Screenplays, which we eventually plan on collating into a single, handy volume and distributing to sample-needy executives too A.D.D. time-pressed to read full-length scripts. (A nominal PayPal fee of...

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The One-Page Screenplay

This week's One-Page Screenplay comes to us from the fertile mind of Craig Mazin, the screenwriter of Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4. Now strap yourselves in for all the sex, '80s rock covers, and spectacular sci-fi destruction you...

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The One-Page Screenplay

Time once again to don your reading glasses and curl up for another of Movieline's One-Page Screenplays -- the ultimate development solution for our time-management-challenged, eco-friendly times. Today's celebrity screenwriter is Michael France, writer of Fantastic Four, The Punisher, Hulk,...

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Interviews

So get this pitch: A young, handsome Hollywood executive has some spare time on his hands, so he writes a script -- a romcom. And because this is a small town and he wants it to be judged on its...

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The One-Page Screenplay

It's time for another submission to Movieline's growing One-Page Screenplay library, a dog-eared three-ring-binder rapidly filling up with looseleaf flashes of brilliance by some of Hollywood's most celebrated screenwriters. Today, we have a legend in our midst. Carl Gottlieb is...

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The One-Page Screenplay

Welcome back to Movieline's One-Page Screenplay project: the only place in the universe serving up single-page masterpieces from Hollywood's top screenwriters. You think one-page screenwriting is easy? It's a lot harder than it looks. They say that if you can't...

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The One-Page Screenplay

Welcome to Movieline's One-Page Screenplay project, a groundbreaking creative experiment that asks Hollywood's most successful screenwriters to compose a script that exists on a single page -- and yet still somehow manages to present third-act stakes-deficiency problems. Today's estimable contributor...

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The One-Page Screenplay

Welcome to The One-Page Screenplay, the brass-fastener-obsoleting Movieline feature in which we ask some of our favorite screenwriters to produce a script that exists on a single page. (I then hand that unread script directly to my assistant, who compiles...

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The One-Page Screenplay

It's time for another edition of The One-Page Screenplay, the feature in which Movieline approaches top Hollywood screenwriters and asks them to produce something that could conceivably be made for under $30 million. We're thrilled to have John Turman with...

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The One-Page Screenplay

35-year-old Rian Johnson exploded onto the indie film scene in 2005 with his feature debut, Brick -- a captivating noir that both honored the form and subverted it by setting the mystery at a suburban California high school....

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The One-Page Screenplay

We're introducing a new feature today, called The One-Page Screenplay. Here's how it works: We approach screenwriters we like and ask them to compose a script that exists on a single page -- a sort of movieku. We then scan...

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