CHICO — Award-winning screenplay writer Lynn Elliott gets inspiration for his works from a variety of places. Elliott, who taught English at Chico State from 1972 to 2005 and served as chair of the ...

Screenplay writers are often the unsung heroes of the film and television industry, anonymously imbuing the shows and films they create with humor, pathos and resonance. Or, in the case of longtime ...

NEW YORK — Robert Towne, an Oscar-winning screenplay writer behind some of Hollywood’s greatest films, has died. He was 89 years old. His publicist, Carri McClure, confirmed his death on Tuesday to ...

ACCOLADES IN AUSTRALIA A Little Rock writer's screenplay was awarded the top prize at a film festival in Australia earlier this month. "A Treacherous Country" by Jay Jennings won first place in the ...

The 1990s saw the rise of many all-time great screenplays, from prescient satires like The Truman Show to generation-defining gems like Pulp Fiction.

Perhaps more than any profession, writers are infamous for their quirky and possibly counterproductive on the-job habits. In his heyday, screenwriter Paul Schrader would write exclusively at night, ...

The studio accuses Shaun Gray, a cousin of 'Maverick' screenwriter Eric Warren Singer, of fraud and copyright infringement for hiding his role in writing the screenplay for the film. By Winston Cho ...