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Movie Review: A Separation
Frothygirlz
By Grace Suh The much-deserving winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture (in a precedent-making move, it was also nominated for Best Screenplay, the first time a foreign film has won a nomination outside the foreign category), ...
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How 'Animal Farm' Gave Hope to Stalin's Refugees
The Atlantic
Her screenplay about Stalin's famine in Ukraine is being developed in Europe. By Andrea Chalupa An underground Ukrainian translation of George Orwell's subversive novel infiltrated postwar Europe's displaced persons camps. Reading the introduction to ...
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The Atlantic
Angelina Jolie Is 'Seriously Malnourished', Says Dr Drew
Contactmusic.com
The actress - whose movie In The Land of Blood and Honey was snubbed by the Academy - was there to present honors for Best Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay, while supporting her partner Brad Pitt, who was nominated for 'Moneyball'.
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Contactmusic.com
The Lance: Academy Awards look backwards rather than forwards
my.hsj.org
Perhaps nothing sums up this year's Academy Awards ceremony than this quote from Best Original Screenplay winner, Midnight in Paris The night's two biggest winners are memorials to the Golden Age of Hollywood. The Artist, the much lauded winner of the ...
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'The Descendants' author honored by Hawaii Senate
Coshocton Tribune
The George Clooney movie based on Hemmings' novel won an Oscar for the Best Adapted Screenplay. On Thursday, the Hawaii Senate gave Hemmings a certificate of recognition for her success. Sen. Majority Leader Brickwood Galuteria said the Senate was very ...
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Star Gazing:Comets, Actors, and Angelina's Right Leg
OpEdNews
Finally, a week after the ceremony there aren't many who remember the dresses or the winners, especially who won the Oscars for writing the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Adapted Screenplay. But, probably everyone remembers Angelina Jolie's ...
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The Most Useless Pre-Oscar Predictor: National Board of Review
Forbes
This year, they managed to miss Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and Documentary. Instead of "The Artist." Michel Hazanavicius, Jean DuJardin, Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer, Woody Allen and "Undefeated," ...
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Plymouth talent to star in local film
This is Plymouth
So begins the screenplay for They're Coming, a micro-budget, full-length thriller due to begin shooting in Devon later this month. MARCH The cast of local talent includes Plymouth student Tom Menary, playing our hero David.
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Review: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Examiner.com
Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, who penned the screenplay, stretched and pulled at the story till its charisma gave way. Sure, the moral, cool colors and silly shapes are intact, but a subplot and all-star voice cast distract from the charming simplicity of ...
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Dolly Parton Sought After in New 'Hollywood to Dollywood' Documentary
Taste of Country
The feature-length documentary follows the North Carolina natives as they leave their Hollywood home on a trip to Dollywood to try and find their idol and get the screenplay into her hands, according to a report from the Boot. They've tried once before ...
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Project X
Variety
Screenplay, Matt Drake, Michael Bacall; story, Bacall. Teens will cheer while grown-ups cringe at "Project X," an outrageous mock-doc account of the ultimate high-school house party caught on tape. In attempting to warn parents, the ratings board has ...
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Variety
Former Midlander McGrath to be honored in Austin
Midland Reporter-Telegram
A freelance writer, McGrath wrote the screenplay for the 1993 remake of the romantic farce "Born Yesterday," which starred Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson; collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplay for "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994), ...
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Essayist's coming-of-age story brings hip-hop to the Humana Festival
Louisville Courier-Journal
So my screenplays were very talky, and when I was in graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001, my adviser was a playwright named Beau O'Reilly. He read my screenplay and said this is like people just talking, ...
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Creativity (Or Lack Of It) In Hollywood: Adapted Scripts Take Over
NYU Local
But there is a reason "Original Screenplay" is a category at the Academy Awards. Harry Potter was the most major book/movie saga of the 2000′s. It is hard to remember a time when Daniel Radcliffe wasn't working on a film (he was cast in 2000), ...
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'The Godfather' turns 40
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Coppola and Puzo collaborated on the screenplay. However, the director's relationship with Paramount wasn't as harmonious during filming. Coppola attempted to give the film a more epic look, which the studio felt would just be a waste of money since it ...
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Movie review: In 'Ranchero,' a rural man visits the city
Los Angeles Times
Brian Eric Johnson's on-the-nose screenplay finds middle-aged innocent Jesse (Roger Gutierrez) setting out from the Sacramento-area cattle ranch where he's worked most of his life. If there's a fire in him, it's a low-burning flame; mainly he's at ...
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Los Angeles Times
Levy's High Five, March 2 - March 8
OregonLive.com (blog)
And you can still catch "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (best cinematography), "The Descendants" (best adapted screenplay) and "The Muppets" (original song). Everything else is available at home in some form or other except best documentary winner ...
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OregonLive.com (blog)
3 In contest for Friday
IndiaGlitz
He is the producer, director, story, screenplay, dialogue writer and music director for the film. This is an emotional drama set in the family. The sacrifice of characters is the hall mark of this film says director S Narayan who is directing Ganesh ...
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IndiaGlitz
David Nicholls: Touching a common chord
gulfnews.com
While doing the screenplay for Tess of the D'Urbervilles, I came across a section in Hardy's book that planted the seed for my novel. It's where Tess gazes at herself in the mirror and a shiver runs down her spine at the thought that perhaps this is ...
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gulfnews.com
Writers step up to the mic
Monterey County Herald
The event starts at 9p.m. and is open to all writers in all genres, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir and screenplay. Participants are asked to arrive early to sign up. The event is free. Writers will have five minutes to share their work.
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Source: Columbia Pictures
ComingSoon.net
Alex Litvak is writing the screenplay which centers on a Mexican politician who, after his father is killed by a drug cartel, hires the five best bodyguards from around the world to protect him through a contentious election.
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ComingSoon.net
Film script has magic number
Cambridge News
A film script commemorating the life of Alan Turing has been voted the best undeveloped screenplay by Hollywood's elite. The Imitation Game, written by Graham Moore, has been in the pipeline for several years, with Leonardo di Caprio tipped to play the ...
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Cambridge News
SciFriday: Trying My Own Hand At Writing
Airlock Alpha
I'm not really sure how other people, like my friend Jody Wheeler, does it -- writing a story on his website DoorQ one minute, and then writing a screenplay the next. Worse for me, I'm not even trying to finish a screenplay. I'm just doing a treatment ...
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Airlock Alpha
Emma Watson to star in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring
Regina Leader-Post
Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay and directs. Emma Watson is going from Harry Potter good girl to thief, starring in Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," Coppola said Wednesday. The movie, which Coppola wrote and is directing and producing, ...
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Munjane Movie Review
Oneindia Entertainment
The director's screenplay and the placement of songs add salt to the woes of the audience. The worst of all is the climax of the film. After dragging the movie for close to 110 minutes, the director unhesitatingly extends the final part and wraps up in ...
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Oh! You pretty things
This is Gloucestershire
The trials and tribulations in Laurence Coriat's screenplay are familiar and the resolution to each conflict is predictable but Evans' film has a sweetness and sincerity that is charming. He is blessed with a young cast, many of them newcomers, ...
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Beau Willimon Q&A
FemaleFirst.co.uk
During the midst of writing the screenplay the play finally had its world premiere on Broadway. - How was the co-writing process for the film? We had a number of conversations early on and then I got to work adapting the play.
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Kathmandu Lullaby
Variety
Screenplay, Bollain, Paul Laverty. With: Veronica Echegui, Saumyata Bhattarai, Norbu Tsering Gurung. (Spanish, English dialogue) An idealistic young teacher heads to a poverty-stricken area of the Himalayas to change the world in "Kathmandu Lullaby," a ...
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Lost Star Trek episode will be filmed
TG Daily
Now, for those who just can't wait until 2013 or beyond to see "He Walked Among Us," well, it seems as if you're in luck, because Spinrad (in conjunction with Cawley Entertainment) is selling a printed version of the screenplay (as well as an ebook ...
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TG Daily
Mila Kunis to play Jacqueline Kennedy?
Hindustan Times
He has written a new screenplay called The Butler, about a staffer Eugene Allen, who served in the White House for 34 years, waiting on eight different presidents from 1952, reports dailystar.co.uk. Hugh Jackman, John Cusack and media mogul Oprah ...
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Hindustan Times
Coroner's Report: The Dead
Film School Rejects
Hell, I wrote a zombie screenplay in college. The zombie craze reignited in the early 2000s with 28 Days Later and the remake of Dawn of the Dead. From then on, we've been fairly well saturated with the undead. Can you get too much of a good thing?
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His world of words
The Hindu
Huge challenge In his first screenplay in Malayalam, the 2008 Kerala Sahitya Akademi award-winning short story writer of Komala, who also writes for popular daily soaps on Malayalam channels, has successfully managed to turn the story of Raju (played ...
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The Hindu
A New Trailer for ParaNorman Brings Some Kid Friendly Frights
Dread Central
ParaNorman is being directed by Sam Fell (The Tale of Despereaux, Flushed Away) and Chris Butler (Coraline, The Corpse Bride) from Butler's original screenplay. A small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy ...
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Dread Central
New Writer For The Lost Symbol
Empire Online
Sony remain determined to crack the screenplay for Dan Brown's third Robert Langdon conspiracy epic The Lost Symbol, and Danny Strong is the latest man for the job. Strong's task will be to overhaul the script already attempted by Brown himself and ...
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Empire Online
Remember when hip-hop was fun with Busdriver
Las Vegas Review-Journal
By Jason Bracelin His dad wrote the screenplay for "Krush Groove," meaning hip-hop is pretty much a part of Busdriver's bloodline. You can certainly hear as much in his rhymes: Loopy, elastic and technically adroit, they're as imaginative, ...
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Show & Tell: Entertainment News
Columbus Dispatch
The top seller, said Los Angeles auctioneer Nate D. Sanders, was the trophy for best screenplay that Herman Mankiewicz won for co-writing the 1941 film Citizen Kane with Orson Welles. The screenplay Oscar that Welles received for the movie, ...
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Columbus Dispatch
Fundraiser to bring together Fonda, Payne
Omaha World-Herald
Payne, who still keeps an Omaha residence, just won his second adapted-screenplay Oscar, for "The Descendants," on Sunday. A May 13 fundraiser for Film Streams will bring them together. Fonda will be interviewed about her movie career before an ...
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Omaha World-Herald
Ernie Cline, King of the Nerds: An interview with the bestselling author and ...
Oxford Student
His first screenplay, Fanboys, was a love letter to Star Wars packed with references and cameos. Last year he backed that up with the award winning novel Ready Player One, a whirlwind adventure in a near future that emulates the 1980s.
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If the Muppets Sequel Fails, You Can Blame How I Met Your Mother
Grantland (blog)
Vulture reports that a sequel to Jason Segel's franchise-revitalizing The Muppets is on the horizon — but that its screenplay's pages won't ever run through the golden touch of Segel's magic typewriter of good scripts. Why the hell not?
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Top Gun sequel now being served up by The Town screenwriter
A.V. Club
... producer Jerry Bruckheimer has instead handed the screenplay to Peter Craig, whose screenplay for The Town captured the ineffable, co-dependent love between men as they handle a lot of firepower without being all obvious about it.
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A.V. Club
Movie review 'Kill List': Movie about hit men is a miss
The Seattle Times
Directed by Ben Wheatley, from a screenplay by Wheatley and Amy Jump. 95 minutes. Not rated; for mature audiences (contains violence). SIFF Cinema at the Uptown. No comments have been posted to this article. An ultraviolent crime thriller that isn't ...
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'We Need To Talk About Kevin' is unsettling and sticks with you
The Seattle Times
Directed by Lynne Ramsay, from a screenplay by Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver. 112 minutes. Rated R for disturbing violence and behavior, some sexuality and language. Meridian, Alderwood Mall.
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