Script Magazine

There’s something inherently fascinating about a story that is told and retold, repeated and reiterated, across multiple generations and even across differing mediums. Initially, the material may have started as a hit musical from Broadway, a scintillating novel from Victorian London, or an epic myth from an ancient civilization long gone. But sooner or later the story falls into new hands and is adapted into a fresh version of its former self. The stage production transforms into a feature film.

The Vampire Diaries. Courtesy of the CW. Once upon a time, there was a little love triangle between a girl named Bella, her vampire Edward, and a werewolf named Jacob. But even before the Twilight era, there were the Salvatorre brothers, first penned by author L.J. Smith and published in 1991, though their epic love for Elena Gilbert only hit the zeitgeist post-Twilight’s OG pub date in 2005,when the CW’s The Vampire Diaries brought them to life in 2009. Still with me?

(Warning: May include spoilers!) Coyote vs. Acme (2026). Courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment. Wile E. Coyote finally gets his day in court in Coyote vs. Acme. Based on Ian Frazier’s 1990 New Yorker article of the same name, director Dave Green’s (Earth to Echo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) movie is a testament to the phenomenon of animation and the fundamental joy Looney Tunes provides. The movie expands the Looney Tunes universe and gives us a peek behind the red curtain.

It’s still the Dog Days of summer but the cooler days of fall are just around the corner and with that, new movies are also on the horizon. This year the box office has seemed to shake some of the post-COVID doldrums, with some films, including Michael, crossing the billion dollar mark globally. Will there be some box office juggernauts during the fall? Only time will tell, but there’s sure to be plenty of entertainment for all. Resident Evil (2026). Courtesy of Sony.

It Ends (2026). JAZLEANA JONES/COURTESY OF SNOOT ENTERTAINMENT Filmmaker Alex Ullom’s debut feature It Ends caused a buzz at SXSW 2025. Despite it getting positive word of mouth, perfectionist Ullom still has reservations about it. “I actually thought that I’d ruined it. I thought that I did not get what I needed and I could not look at the footage for a long time,” he says. The 27-year-old Florida native told Script Magazine, “We reshot the film three times.

In my writing daydreams, I write blazing fast, knocking out script after script with ease and joy. (I know, it sounds silly even writing it out!) The reality isn’t quite that, not at all, though a big part of me still hopes to get there. The truth is that I can and do write actual scripts quickly, but the development work takes me longer than I’d like. And this summer I’ve been getting to the bottom of that. I hope.

Ah, how the tables…or phones…turn. Not all that long ago, shooting in landscape was the only way to go, but now a growing number of indie filmmakers are ditching the traditional 16:9 and flipping it (literally) to 9:16. Vertical apps like ReelShort and DramaBox are sweeping the globe, bringing in so many millions of viewers and billions of dollars that mainstream streamers like Peacock and major brands like Maybelline took notice and have created their own vertical series.

Warning: this article will feature spoilers for the series Star Wars: The Ninth Jedi. Star Wars: The Ninth Jedi (2026). Courtesy of Lucas Film. Star Wars: Visions began as an out-of-universe experiment on the part of Lucasfilm with the intention of seeing how Japanese storytellers and their world-class animation studios interpret the world of Star Wars.

Accept This Invitation. The Invite (2026. Screenplay by Will McCormack & Rashida Jones, based on the film Sentimental by Cesc Gay. 107 minutes) The Invite (2026). Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival. Some complicated administrative details first. The official credits are a tad misleading. Sentimental is not a film. It was a screenplay written by the Spanish writer-producer Cesc Gay. The film he directed from it is titled The People Upstairs (2020).

This will contain major spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the fourth installment of the latest live-action iteration of everyone’s favorite neighborhood webhead on the big screen.