Headlining our Deals of the Week, save a whopping $3425 on a set of 6 Rokinon Xeen Cine lenses. This week in filmmaking deals: Rokinon drops the price of their Xeen Cine 6 Lens Kit way down to under $8600. Also, you can save $200 on a...

Kurt Sutter has officially exited his involvement in his Sons of Anarchy spinoff for FX, Mayans, and his tenure at FX seems to be over. Kurt Sutter sent an email Thursday to the cast and crew of Mayans, telling them that he has been...

Fact: Call sheets are annoying. They’re annoying to make, read, send, hand out, and get. They don’t tell you the whole story of the shoot, and yet a lot of time and energy is put into them. Plus they contain all kinds of information...

Damon Lindelof had to adapt his favorite comic for his new HBO show and update the story based on our culture now. Here’s how he avoided all the toxic nostalgia doing it. Watchmen is a seminal piece of literature that launched a...

What’s the secret to writing a great mystery screenplay? Blade Runner 2049 and Murder on the Orient Express writer Michael Green clues us in with some great tips… Mystery movies are getting a quiet resurgence in Hollywood....

Who better to deconstruct Wes Anderson’s visual style than his longtime collaborator, DP Robert Yeoman? You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t associate whip pans, slow motion tracking shots, and overheads...

4K, Dolby Atmos, and Netflix, oh my! The newest update of Pro Tools 2019, coming this Fall, will bring 4K and UHD video support to Pro Tools and Pro Tools Ultimate, enhanced mixing workflows with Dolby Atmos in Pro Tools Ultimate, and...

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While the sequel are hit and miss, you can learn a lot from how the Scream franchise scripts treats their lead character, Sydney Prescott — one of the few Final Girls to have an arc in horror movies. In 1992, professor and...

Los Angeles filmmakers: Get excited that this indie film staple is coming back to make your jobs a little easier — and more fun. November 2019 marks the beginning of what has become known, in the press at least, as the great...