Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Knives Out was always intended to be the first of ...

Writer Michael Lewis talks about how Steve Bannon bought the movie rights to his first book and apparently wrote a screenplay that Lewis is now keen to read.

Asa Butterfield plays Hugo and Chloe Grace Moretz plays Isabelle in Hugo. Jaap Buitendijk, © 2011 GK Films, LLC. All rights reserved. With 11 Oscar nominations and a ...

If you want to become a screenwriter, it’s so important to learn how to write action lines in a script. Action lines take up the bulk of a reader’s attention. It’s where you spell out what’s happening ...

Setting out a script in a good format makes it easier for an actor - and anyone else - to read. However, what matters most is that what you do is laid out clearly and is easy to read. • Each new scene ...