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Screenwriter Michael Bacall Talks Project X and 21 Jump Street
ComingSoon.net
Responsible for two major R-rated comedies hitting theaters this month, Michael Bacall has turned his Hollywood acting experience (which began for him when he was a child) into a successful screenwriting career. Best known for his work on Scott Pilgrim ...
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ComingSoon.net
New Muppets Movie On The Way Without Jason Segel As Screenwriter
Cinema Blend
For years Jim Henson's beloved Muppets had been relegated to forgettable TV movies and embarrassing commercials until rising comedian/screenwriter Jason Segel spun the success of Forgetting Sarah Marshall into a tool to push his ultimate passion ...
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Cinema Blend
'Game Change' Screenwriter Wishes Sarah Palin Would Watch His Movie Before ...
Politicker
By Hunter Walker 3/01 4:53pm Earlier today Sarah Palin's political action committee released a video and statement slamming HBO's 2008 election drama "Game Change" as being "fiction" filled with "the half-baked truths and fabrications of the liberal ...
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Politicker
'The Town' Screenwriter to Pen 'Top Gun' Sequel. 5 People are Excited
Get The Big Picture (blog)
Let's take quick look at the history that is Top Gun 2. Top Gun comes out in 1986 and makes a couple of bucks, spawns countless reenactments of the high five/lo fives all across various sporting events and office buildings over the years.
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Get The Big Picture (blog)
"Top Gun 2" enlists "The Town" screenwriter
IFC (blog)
But now, with this year's possible re-release of the original film in 3D and newly enlisted screenwriter Peter Craig, we're getting closer to the danger zone than ever. Craig is best known for writing the Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and Jon Hamm ...
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IFC (blog)
'Top Gun 2′ Screenwriter Hired
The Fandom Post
Progress continues when it comes to the long gestating Top Gun 2 feature, which will advance the story ahead many, many years to the present. The latest bit of news out of Hollywood about it is that Peter Craig has signed on to write the story for the ...
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Screenwriter Richard Carpenter Dies
Contactmusic.com
Carpenter, best known as the creator of kids' TV series Catweazle, passed away after suffering a heart attack on Sunday (26Feb12). He worked as an actor in the 1960s, before going on to write all 26 episodes of 1970s cult show Catweazle, ...
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Contactmusic.com
7 Movies That Were Never Made
Huffington Post (blog)
There's a depressing equation which exists for any would-be screenwriter, and it goes like this: for every thousand scripts which are written, only one makes it into the hands of someone with the power to make it. For every thousand that make it into ...
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Now Peter Craig Will Draft 'Top Gun' Sequel 'Goose's Revenge'
I Am Rogue.com
Paramount continues its attempts to revive the enduring property, as the studio has hired screenwriter Peter Craig to write a new story for Top Gun 2, despite the transformation of the American military into one far more dependent on drone aircraft ...
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Delia Ephron to Release New Novel THE LION IS IN, March 29
Broadway World
Acclaimed screenwriter, playwright and novelist Delia Ephron, co-author of the long-running hit playLove, Loss, and What I Wore, is set to release "The Lion Is In" (Blue Rider Press; March 29, 2012; $24.95), her first adult fiction novel in more than a ...
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Craig onboard Cruise's Top Gun 2 for Paramount
Moviehole
Risky Business says Acclaimed screenwriter Peter Craig, who wrote Ben Affleck's bloody terrific crime caper "The Town", has been tapped to pen Maverick's twilight years for David Ellison's cashed-up Skydance shingle (I hear Ellison, a former actor and ...
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Ashley Edward Miller
Reelz
Looks like they must have, as THR reports that The Town screenwriter Peter Craig is set to write the screenplay. While his hiring shows how serious Paramount is about making the sequel, Craig is not the first writer hired for the gig.
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'Top Gun 2' goes with 'Town' scribe
CNN (blog)
Reports surfaced in 2010 that Paramount was looking to continue the blockbuster 1986 picture, and Cruise told MTV last December that they were indeed "working on it," although he noted at the time that he didn't think screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie ...
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'Smoke & Mirrors' to offer plenty of laughs and thrills
Coshocton Tribune
Nathan Mayse, as screenwriter Clark Robinson, left, listens as Denny Blanford, as Hollywood producer/movie director Hamilton Orr, right, tries to convince Jeff Wherley, as air-headed actor Derek Coburn, center, to go along with a change in the movie's ...
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RICHARD KAY: By gum, TV Hannah gets hitched
Daily Mail
Not even screenwriter Richard Curtis could have invented the hilarious scenario at the wedding of TV presenter Hannah Sandling and Bruno Varela. For just as the lady registrar began to pronounce: 'Do You Bruno take Hannah . . .' there was an unexpected ...
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Daily Mail
Resuscitating Carrie LAWRENCE D. COHEN with Tommy Smith
Brooklyn Rail
by Tommy Smith Lawrence D. Cohen is the screenwriter of Brian De Palma's legendary adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel Carrie and book writer to the equally infamous 1988 Broadway musical adaptation. The new version of the musical—staged by ...
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Top Gun 2 pushing forward
FansShare
It has been reported that The Town screenwriter Peter Craig has been brought in by Paramount to work on a script for a sequel to the 1986 movie Top Gun. It is a busy time for Peter Craig, as he is also the guy in charge of writing Bad Boys 3 and with ...
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Irrfan Khan Stars in 'Paan Singh Tomar'
New York Times
A Bollywood screenwriter might blush to come up with the story of a national champion runner who becomes more famous as an outlaw. But Tigmanshu Dhulia's uneven, absorbing Hindi film "Paan Singh Tomar," based on real events, falls into the category of ...
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The Town Writer Lands Top Gun 2
IGN
by Max Nicholson Paramount has just hired The Town screenwriter Peter Craig to pen a sequel to Tony Scott's 1986 classic Top Gun. The Hollywood Reporter calls Craig is a sizable get for the studio, which means they're probably pretty serious about the ...
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IGN
Sarah Palin Is Bashing Game Change Even Though She Hasn't Seen It!
PerezHilton.com
The screenwriter for the upcoming HBO movie Game Change, which is about Sarah Palin in 2008 (played by an uncanny Julianne Moore), really wishes Sarah would watch the movie before she started bashing it. Just because she has no idea how it's presented ...
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PerezHilton.com
Shandi Mitchell wins $25000 Kobzar Literary Award
CTV.ca
TORONTO — Nova Scotia-based director and screenwriter Shandi Mitchell has won the $25000 Kobzar Literary Award for her debut novel, "Under This Unbroken Sky." The prairie-bred author and filmmaker nabbed the honour on Thursday at a gala in Toronto.
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CTV.ca
'Sherman Way' adding to San Fernando Valley's body of cinema
Los Angeles Daily News
By Bob Strauss, Staff Writer Steve Race, left, the director, screenwriter and producer of "Sherman Way," works with actor Vincent Pastore in the film "I'm In Love With a Church Girl," Race's directorial debut. A new movie about life in the San Fernando ...
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'Last Samurai' Litigation Set for Trial March 20 With Millions at Stake
Hollywood Reporter
Although Warner Bros. was dismissed as a defendant in the lawsuit brought by screenwriters Aaron and Matthew Benay, the case figures to be a much-watched affair that explores the way film studios acquire and develop screenplays.
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Hollywood Reporter
On the Road finally hits the big screen
Telegraph.co.uk
Francis Ford Coppola, then a rising director-screenwriter still in his twenties, bought the film rights to it back in 1968. The film, directed by Brazilian Walter Salles, was shot in autumn 2010. But it was announced this week that On the Road will ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
'Game Change' Scribe Danny Strong: How I Wrote 'Sarah Palin'
Hollywood Reporter
The screenwriter behind the HBO telepic reveals how he put words in the mouth of one of today's most controversial political figures. This story first appeared in the March 9 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. I see the movie as an anxiety dream ...
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Hollywood Reporter
The fantasy of making Disney's 'John Carter'
Salt Lake Tribune
In 1995, when "Toy Story" was a fresh success for Pixar Animation Studios, Andrew Stanton — then a Pixar screenwriter, animator and story artist — made a pitch to the boss. "What if we could do hybrid movies?" Stanton asked Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull.
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Design Indaba 2012: Day 2
Creative Review (blog)
Design Indaba's day two highlights were served up by Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin-Lewis of Hellicar & Lewis, South African product designer and "creative doer" Porky Hefer, Indian screenwriter Akshat Verma, and United Visual Artists.
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Creative Review (blog)
Kathryn Bigelow Shooting Bin Laden Drama In India
Cinema Blend
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have been tight-lipped on details about their collaborative follow-up to the Oscar-winning Iraqi War drama The Hurt Locker, but THR has uncovered that Bigelow's untitled thriller, which centers on the ...
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Cinema Blend
IOP Hosts Premiere of HBO Film
Harvard Crimson
In an interview prior to the screening, Halperin and Heilemann said that they had an "elaborate relationship" with the director and screenwriter of the film. The pair said that they worked very closely with the filmmakers to ensure that the movie ...
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Brad Pitt joins star-studded Prop 8 play
CNN
(EW.com) -- Brad Pitt is set to join the cast of the West Coast premiere reading of 8, the play penned by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) that follows the legal fight to overturn Proposition 8, the California law that ...
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Tim Kring: 'I was very interested in writers who wanted to write short stories'
mediabistro.com
By Jason Boog on March 1, 2012 5:15 PM In a video short about the scriptwriters working on the new TV show Touch, producer and writer Tim Kring revealed what he is looking for when hiring a screenwriter. Kring created hit television shows like Crossing ...
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Director Paul Weitz on Adaptations, Robert De Niro and Being Flynn
Comic Book Resources
That's exactly the conundrum director and screenwriter Paul Weitz faced with Being Flynn, which opens Friday. No stranger to the adaptation process – he brought Nick Hornsby's About a Boy to the big screen in 2002 – Weitz stumbled upon author Nick ...
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Comic Book Resources
Get UK Entertainment Alerts
Huffington Post UK
It has the same beautiful detailed costumes, the same clashing class systems and the same Academy Award-winning screenwriter as Downton, so what stops ITV's new four-part drama Titanic becoming just 'Downton On Sea'? Downton Abbey's creator even ...
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Berkshire Theatre Group to Host 'A Woman's Work'
iBerkshires.com
On Friday, March 23 at 7:30 pm, The Unicorn Theatre will host new works by screenwriter Maria Nation, playwrights Jane Denitz Smith, Gloria Miller and Ilene Tetenbaum, writers Susan Merrill, Mary Mott and Elizabeth Elliott and more.
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Scarlett Johansson to have a steamy shower scene in Sacha Gervasi's next film
Moviehole
Documentarian and screenwriter cum feature-director Sacha Gervasi is booting up "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" (horrible title), a hot little ditty about Hitchcock's uphill battle to get the '60s classic, starring Tony Perkins as Norman ...
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Moviehole
George Clooney, Brad Pitt Team Up For Prop 8 Play
MTV.com
Written by Oscar-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, the play has a star-studded cast that includes Martin Sheen, Christine Lahti, Jamie Lee Curtis, Matthew Morrison, Matt Bomer, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Campbell Brown, ...
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Profits from pregnancy
Financial Times
But for Ms Gould, a former screenwriter who has worked on glitzy teen dramas including Beverly Hills, 90210 and Lizzie McGuire, when you set up a business in Los Angeles, "there's always going to be outrageous things. We don't judge.
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Financial Times
Delia Ephron to Release The Lion Is In Novel on March 29
TheaterMania.com
Ephron is best known as a screenwriter, with her credits including The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You've Got Mail, and Michael. She has also written novels, including Hanging Up, and essays and other books, including How to Eat Like a Child.
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TheaterMania.com
THE MUPPETS Sequel Reportedly Moving Forward Without Jason Segel
The Daily BLAM
By Pietro Filipponi A recent report reveals that James Bobin and screenwriter Nicholas Stoller have penned a deal for a followup to last year's successful relaunch of the Muppets film franchise but also state that Segel will not be joining them.
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A Moth to Marfa's Flame
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
He was no writing neophyte, by any means, having published a book of short stories in his 30s and worked as a screenwriter for 15 years. The novel, however, took three years to sell (and five before that to write). It was rejected by 25 major ...
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