Screenwriting articles
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All Your 'Challengers' Questions, Answered by 'Challengers' Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes
This interview contains major spoilers for Challengers. Movies are back, baby! Luca Guadagnino’s sexy, sweaty tennis-threeway movie Challengers won last weekend in the zeitgeist as well as at the box office, dominating group chats, social media feeds, and even the GQ Slack. In this post-monolithic age of media consumption, it’s increasingly rare for any release—barring peak Marvel or juggernautish new studio albums by the likes of Beyoncé or Taylor Swift—to become that central to the...
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Ronda Rousey reportedly tabbed as screenwriter for Netflix biopic on her
Ronda Rousey will enter the world of screenwriting. A report on Thursday from Variety indicates that the decorated former fighter and WWE superstar will be the screenwriter for a biopic on her that will air on Netflix. Deadline reports that Rousey will “adapt the script” to her two memoirs for a biopic that will air
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Soap opera actor and screenwriter Meg Bennett has died
Award-winning screenwriter and actor Meg Bennett, who achieved fame on "The Young and the Restless," has died, her family announced Sunday. She was 75. Bennett "lost her battle" with cancer on April 11, the family said in its obituary, first published in the Los Angeles Times. Audiences knew Bennett as the striking brunette Julia Newman on CBS' long-running soap opera. She played Megan Richardson on "Santa Barbara" in the 1990s and Allegra Montenegro on "General Hospital" in 2005. Bennett also...