Script Magazine

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Script MagazineCinemaAdapting IP? Utilize These 2 Types of Colleagues When adapting a well-loved story, it's important to get feedback from these two very different perspectives.

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Script MagazineCinemaThe Shows That Shape Us: Style and Structure in Small Screen Romance Why romance novels are having more than a moment on our televisions.

08.27

Script MagazineCinemaIt’s About the Journey, Not the Destination – ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Review Dave Green combines Looney Tunes animation with live action to create a joyful feel-good movie with characters we can all relate to.

08.26

Script MagazineCinema2026 Fall/Winter Movie Preview From revisiting classics and blockbuster series to casting well-known stars in surprising new roles, the 2026 fall/winter season promises something for everyone.

08.24

Script MagazineCinemaWriting the Lost Highway That Represents Life: Alex Ullom talks ‘It Ends’ Alex Ullom discusses the inspiration behind It Ends, how long it took him to write the script, and the challenges of filming the debut feature.

08.21

Script MagazineCinemaFaster Than the Speed of … Something? Sci-fi screenwriter Jenna Avery on writing speed, getting in our own way, learning and growing, and leveling up.

08.20

Script MagazineCinemaTRUE INDIE: Writing for Verticals – Interview with Screenwriter Lynn Grant Beck Rebecca Norris Resnick speaks with Lynn Grant Beck, screenwriter, author, and the playwright behind award-winning All American, about the rise of vertical films and how screenwriters can get started.

08.17

Script MagazineCinemaStar Wars Visions: The Ninth Jedi’s Elegant Storytelling And What it Can Offer Screenwriters This series is a master class in storytelling, offering screenwriters lessons on theme, structure, and using visual representations to engage audiences.

08.12

Script MagazineCinemaUNDERSTANDING SCREENWRITING: Some Good, Some Not-So-Good, And a Real Stinker Among those are The Invite, Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, The Duke, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass

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Script MagazineCinemaSpider-Man: Brand New Day’s Script Hews Close to Theme and Proves There’s Still Creative Vitality at Marvel This film does a lot of things right for screenwriters of any stripe to learn from.

08.03

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo