Stellan Skarsgård refused to use motion capture on "Pirates of the Caribbean" and prefers sitting in the makeup chair for hours. “I was the only one on set with real prosthetics on. Everyone else on that ship showed up five minutes before we started shooting and had dots put on

The one and only Hans Zimmer recalls the gleeful moment Denis Villeneuve asked him to help bring the DUNE books to cinematic life 🎥✨

Screenwriting Tip: The Six Word Test. "I always joke in meetings now that those were the six words that changed my career and how I think about writing screenplays, but it’s the absolute truth." gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwriting-… #screenwriting #writing

GIRL WITH DOVE, NO BOYS PLAY HERE & THE GREEN LADY at the Milan Book Fair today next to Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Weike Wang & Don Carpenter ⁦Edizioni Clichy⁩ ⁦⁦The Book Hive⁩ ⁦⁦Sandspout Bookstore⁩ ⁦Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop⁩

A movie script may have 60, 70, 80 scenes or more. In a very real way, screenwriting is at its core scene-writing. Therefore, it is essential to know how to handle writing scenes. gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwriting-… #screenwriting #writing

David Mamet: “Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?” #writing

Happy #WorldPoetryDay

Announcing ONCE MORE WITH EALING! Bringing a season of Ealing classics back to cinemas from the Britain’s most legendary film studios. From raucous comedies to provocative drama, more info can be found at vintageclassicsfilm.co.uk

Pitching Advice: Create a “Pitch Persona.” It’s not a fake version of you, rather it’s a *performing* version of you. With a lesson from rock icon David Bowie. ow.ly/TH4650x7ZF0 #screenwriting #amwriting

⁦Rebekah Pierre⁩ celebrating the launch of FREE LOAVES ON FRIDAY at the Foundling Museum ⁦𝕽𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖑 @rinathepublicist.bsky.social⁩ ⁦lemn sissay OBE FRSL⁩ please order & share - original testimonies, stories, essays & poems by those who have experienced the care system ⁦Fiona Lensvelt⁩

The Creative Arts Finalists are: @studio44ad, @bathcarnival, @Bathfestivals, Bath Comedy Festival, the egg theatre, House of Imagination, Little Theatre Cinema and Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein Sponsored by Aardman

‘There’s no life that frees anyone so completely from unhappiness as does the mystic life…’ In the latest episode of A Reading Life, A Writing Life, I reflect on reading John Cowper Powys’ 1932 novel, A Glastonbury Romance podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-g…

In 2024, Silver Hayes looks to optimism to create change, combining forward-thinking electronic artists across four music stages with positive action, debate, technology & design throughout the field. Check out their incredible 2024 line-up.

It is Beltane tomorrow, the beginning of Summer. The fire starts to burn just a little bit brighter. This morning, sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

It was a pleasure to be there for this. Thanks The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Sally Bayley

Sally reads A Glastonbury Romance: how does writing produce depth & dimension? What role do images play in our creative & emotional lives? Join her by the river for reflections on craft, inspiration, & literature as a visual language: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-r… ⁦Ewan Fernie⁩

Gorō Miyazaki receives a rousing standing ovation as he enters the Grand Lumiere where he will be presented with Studio Ghibli’s Honorary Palme d'or #Cannes2024

Animator Suzie Hanna & I are running a story telling/ film writing course at Little Picture Cinema in Bath in November ⁦⁦BathSpaCreativeArts⁩ ⁦The Writing Web ✍🏾⁩ ⁩ Bath Spa University⁩ ⁦Creative Europe⁩ ⁦Little Theatre Cinema⁩ ⁦Diego Semerene⁩ ⁦AestheticaFilmFest⁩

Britain's Billy Harris is into the semi-finals of Eastbourne 🔥 A first ATP Tour semi-final ✅ An impressive win against the world number 49. #BBCTennis | LTA