For everyone professionally writing these days, Final Draft 11 has everything, from ideas to production. It is so easy to use, you wonder why other software companies haven't created a program easy for the writer to visualize their work. It also gives you the tools to edit, revise, and expand your work: look at the View and Production tabs. All of these capacities empower the writer, and therefore the story. This is a must for every storyteller today.
In light of these writing and trying times of COVID-19, if Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion has been resurrected, I suppose content does matter more than style. According to the IMDB, that movie cost around $60 million and made $75 million in the U.S. and $136 million worldwide. Culturally it felt like the movie disappeared pretty quickly. In 1995, Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak cost around $50 million and made $67 (and $189 million worldwide). I suppose people really do find these movies realistic, or at least timely, and later, memorable, even if they're not the director's best work.
In light of these writing and trying times of COVID-19, if Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion has been resurrected, I suppose content does matter more than style. According to the IMDB, that movie cost around $60 million and made $75 million in the U.S. and $136 million worldwide. Culturally it felt like the movie disappeared pretty quickly. In 1995, Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak cost around $50 million and made $67 (and $189 million worldwide). I suppose people really do find these movies realistic, or at least timely, and later, memorable, even if they're not the director's best work.
