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Things are getting messy at the WGAW over internal issues, a Deadline story<\/a> is reporting. Back in 2023 the WGW went on a strike overlabor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). <\/p>\n","articlePostDate":"April 2nd, 2026","bodyText":"

Things are getting messy at the WGAW over internal issues, a Deadline story<\/a> is reporting. Back in 2023 the WGW went on a strike overlabor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).  According to Deadline<\/em>, internally the WGA West staff has not been showing up and is on strike since February. They had been negotiating their contract with WGWW leadership management since September over what they saw as unfair labor practices and reportedly a refusal to bargain. The WGWW reportedly is not admiting any wrongdoing, while membership sees the whole situation as unfair.<\/p>\n","shortKey":"3a315af6"},{"title":"Christopher Landon to write and direct Final Boarding","cover":"b3abd6e5113c62e687f8d5a8ce2b1f57.jpg","byLine":"Staff","homeText":"

Christopher Landon will write and direct Final Boarding<\/em>, a supernatural horror film for Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems, based on the short story by Clarence Hammond.<\/p>\n","articlePostDate":"March 27th, 2026","bodyText":"

Christopher Landon will write and direct Final Boarding<\/em>, a supernatural horror film for Sony Pictures’ Screen Gems, based on the short story by Clarence Hammond. Plot details for the film are undisclosed.  Landon will reportedly use the short story and a previous script adaptation by Javier Gullón.<\/p>\n","shortKey":"68237700"},{"title":"Screenwriting Duo Signs with Paradigm for representation","cover":"a746408a64c49e16985058982323c265.jpeg","byLine":"Staff","homeText":"

Last month, Screenwriting duo Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart, whose feature screenplay Seuss<\/em>, a biopic of iconic children’s author Dr. Seuss, which placed No. 2 on the 2012 Black List and launched their career in studio animation a decade sgo, have signed with Paradigm for representation.<\/p>\n","articlePostDate":"March 26th, 2026","bodyText":"

Last month, Screenwriting duo Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart, whose feature screenplay Seuss<\/em>, a biopic of iconic children’s author Dr. Seuss, which placed No. 2 on the 2012 Black List and launched their career in studio animation a decade sgo, have signed with Paradigm for representation.<\/p>\n\n

Subsequently, they became credited writers on Cars 3<\/em> for Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.<\/p>\n","shortKey":"3c313cfc"},{"title":"Stephen Colbert Set To Write Next \u2018Lord Of The Rings\u2019 Movie","cover":"f38a9351f0c9e442ab490022918901d2.jpg","byLine":"Staff","homeText":"

Hey struggling screenwriter, wanna feel depressed?  Already do... nice well how about this, late night TV personality Stephen Colbert will be adapting the next Lord of the Rings <\/em>movie from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros... Yay!  <\/p>\n","articlePostDate":"March 25th, 2026","bodyText":"

<\/a>Hey struggling screenwriter, wanna feel depressed?  Already do... nice well how about this, late night TV personality Stephen Colbert will be adapting the next Lord of the Rings <\/em>movie from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros... Yay!  <\/p>\n\n

The tentatively titled The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past<\/em> is set to be written by Colbert, Philippa Boyens and Peter McGee.<\/p>\n","shortKey":"2e5e7bc8"},{"title":"Nicholl Fellowships In Screenwriting Recipients","cover":"277b2459c1a4ba433fc418b62f45e020.jpg","byLine":"Staff","homeText":"

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/em><\/strong> released its annual winners of the Nicholl Fellowships.  About 500 Academy members evaluated this year’s submissions to determine the 10 finalists; the Nicholl Committee selecting the final five.  Submissions came through global university programs, screenwriting labs and filmmaker programs to identify potential Nicholl fellows.<\/p>\n","articlePostDate":"March 25th, 2026","bodyText":"

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/a><\/em><\/strong> released its annual winners of the Nicholl Fellowships.  About 500 Academy members evaluated this year’s submissions to determine the 10 finalists; the Nicholl Committee selecting the final five.  Submissions came through global university programs, screenwriting labs and filmmaker programs, and the Black List to identify potential Nicholl fellows.<\/p>\n\n

Here are the  2025-2026 Nicholl fellows:<\/p>\n\n

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Leo Aguirre (San Antonio, TX), “Verano”<\/strong>
\nNicholl partner: Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab
\nDuring a sweltering summer in Texas, a withdrawn teen’s world is upended when his parents decide to foster an asylum seeker from Central America — what begins as resentment evolves into unexpected friendship as the threat of deportation forces both boys to confront loss, identity and belonging.<\/p>\n\n

Omar Al Dakheel and Elie El Choufany (Los Angeles, CA), “The Washroom”<\/strong>
\nNicholl partner: Urbanworld Festival
\nIn small-town Texas, a young imam fights for his community’s right to bury their dead while hiding a forbidden love that could cost him everything.<\/p>\n\n

Sara Crow and David Rafailedes (Brooklyn, NY), “Satoshi”<\/strong>
\nNicholl partner: NYU Tisch School of the Arts
\nAfter her family loses everything in the 2008 financial crisis, a teenaged anime-obsessed hacktivist realizes money isn’t fair…so she sets out to reinvent it with a new digital currency called Bitcoin.
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\nLynn McKee (Queens, NY), “I’m Ready to Go Anywhere”<\/strong>
\nNicholl partner: The Black List
\nDesperate to escape the heat, chaos and danger of 1980s Phoenix, ten-year-old Patty must protect and parent her mom and little sister while crafting a plan to get them all out.
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\nKatla Sólnes (New York, NY), “Eruption”<\/strong>
\nNicholl partner: Columbia University School of the Arts
\nIn the highlands of 1970s Iceland, a geologist’s wife finds her marriage tested when a wily American student arrives, stirring tensions as volatile as the surrounding volcanic landscape.<\/p>\n","shortKey":"bbb5fcdc"}]