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“Not Easily Broken” is a marriage-in-crisis melodrama baked from the Tyler Perry recipe. Take a good-looking, mostly African-American cast, put them in an affluent setting, paint the characters in ...

Acting often means interpreting the dialogue, actions, and directions set down in a screenplay. But what is it called when an actor goes off script? Actors sometimes have the opportunity to deviate ...

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The winner of the Grand Jury prize at last year's Sundance Festival, "Like Crazy" is a painfully authentic depiction of 20-something life and love, partly because its dialogue is improvised by the two ...

When Pixar first started working on “Wall-E” several years ago, the studio considered making the animated movie -- about a lovable robot on a future Earth -- without any dialogue at all. As the film’s ...

When I started out script supervising almost 20 years ago, the tools of the trade were a stopwatch, a pen or pencil, paper, a Polaroid camera and that all important bible, the script. Each script ...

Hi, I'm working on a script that creates a polyline (named "L") and a series of circles (each named "C"), then does a one-rail sweep. I'm doing this hundreds of times, so I can't afford to sit there ...