“The independent screenwriter” — is the term a tautology or oxymoron? While the word “independent” is often applied to directors and sometimes producers, it’s rarely seen appended to the job title of ...

Recently, I got an email from a No Film School reader asking me the difference between a screenwriter and a scriptwriter. Rather than just emailing the answer, I figured we should write about it here.

Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of a number of acclaimed movies, including the classic 1974 noir thriller “Chinatown” starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, has died. He was 89 years ...