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I believe that with screenplays there's a fairly direct correspondence between the space taken up on paper and time in the movie. So a page is generally a minute. In the article, he talks about how it "creates acts" - each act is going to be about 40 minutes.

I'm not in the field at all so I'm hoping someone knowledgeable will confirm or refute this.

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The gold standard set out by Syd Field in his famous screenwriting book is that for a 2 hour movie this is the breakdown: act 1 - 30 minutes act 2 - 60 minutes act 3 - 30 minutes

But of course rules are made to be broken and they're also adapting a novelistic story structure.

But now kind of curious to watch some of this writer's films and time out these 40 minute act breaks.

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