Scriptnotes Podcast

Film

Screenwriters John August and Craig Mazin discuss screenwriting and related topics in the film and television industry, everything from getting stuff written to the vagaries of copyright and work-for-hire law.

Episodes

738 - Building Your Audience with Courtney Kemp

737 - Studio-Adjacent

736 - The Devil You Know

735 - The Flashforward Fallback

734 - A Box Full of Teeth

733 - Learning Comedy

732 - Something Very Bad is Going to Happen

731 - Avoidance and Other Anti-Quests

SC39 - Sidecast: The 2026 MBA

89 - Writing effective transitions (Encore)

730 - A Frank Conversation About Screenwriting

729 - Endings Compendium, Part II

728 - Beats to Scenes with Drew Goddard

197 - How do bad movies get made? (Encore)

727 - Free Work

726 - So you've been nominated for an Oscar

725 - Torn from the pages of Squash Magazine

724 - Introductions with Joachim Trier

723 - Blank Meets Blank

722 - Orality, or Writing to be Spoken