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'Project X' Screenwriter Responds To Critics: 'We'd Be Disappointed if There ...
Hollywood Reporter
Screenwriter Michael Bacall, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter as the new teen comedy opened on more than 3000 screen nationwide, indicated that he and the filmmakers expected – if not courted – the controversy currently swirling around its content.
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Hollywood Reporter
When screenwriters get lazy
The Economist (blog)
When they do so in a romantic comedy it's a giveaway that the screenwriter was too lazy and unimaginative to give their characters any hobbies that they don't have themselves. It shifts the story even further away from reality.
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The Economist (blog)
Television review: 'GCB' in need of saving grace
Chicago Tribune (blog)
While it does have "Steel Magnolia" screenwriter Robert Harling as its creator, we regret to inform you that "GCB" owes more to the "Real Housewives" than it does the desperate ones. Originally, the show's title was that of the book that inspired it ...
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Chicago Tribune (blog)
Brad Pitt, George Clooney Will Read Play Based On Prop 8 Live Tonight
Boise Weekly
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is no stranger to LGBT issues. He penned the script for the Clint Eastwood-directed J. Edgar, and won an Academy Award for writing Milk, the Gus Van Sant-directed biopic about slain gay politician Harvey Milk.
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Busy Philipps On Angelina Jolie's Oscar Leg Pose: It Was 'The Best Moment Of ...
Access Hollywood
What did she think of "The Descendant's" screenwriter Jim Rash making fun of the pose? Plus, did she see Angelina's reaction to Jim's imitation? Keke Palmer Talks Working With Drake On 'Ice Age 4'; Is She Single? Identical Ink! Vanessa Hudgens & Miley ...
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Hicks: George Clooney and Brad Pitt will reportedly star in Prop. 8 play
San Jose Mercury News
By Tony Hicks George Clooney and Brad Pitt will reportedly be among a star-studded cast in screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's gay marriage play "8" for its March premiere in Los Angeles, reports the Huffington Post. In September, "8" was performed as a ...
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Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden Thriller Titled 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Screen Rant
Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) are no strangers to controversy and they've incited plenty already during pre-production on their new project: a dramatization of SEAL Team Six's hunt for (and eventual ...
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Screen Rant
Ashton Kutcher Spotted Being Affectionate with New Lady Friend
Celebuzz
Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria, who was with Ashton over the holidays, is apparently more than "just friends" as first reported. The two were said to be openly affectionate during a recent outing, Us magazine reports. "They were affectionate," a source ...
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George Clooney, Brad Pitt to Star in Proposition 8 Play
Us Magazine
Set to star together on March 3rd's production of "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's play, "8," the real-life BFFs will join a star-studded cast including Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Glee's Jane Lynch in depicting the legal process ...
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Us Magazine
White Heat: 'What women went through in the 60s was seismic'
The Guardian
With acclaimed screenwriter Paula Milne behind the scripts, it is perhaps little wonder the drama is being thought of as Our Friends in the South. "As a woman, this piece is semi-autobiographical – so that is what you see on screen," said Milne.
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The Guardian
Mahesh Bhatt: Imran Zahid will be playing a key role in 'Jism 2'
News Pakistan
Mahesh Bhatt, a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, has recently revealed another name for his much-anticipated upcoming film 'Jism 2', which is a sequel to the 2002 hit film 'Jism'. This time the lucky one is none other than ...
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News Pakistan
'The Salt of Life': A sympathetic portrait of a dirty old man
Capital New York
As a sequel to Mid-August Lunch, screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio's winsome directorial debut, The Salt of Life is a charming and nuanced character study. At the same time, it's a film that seems to suggest that it's OK to be a dirty old man.
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Capital New York
'A Separation': You won't get it out of your head
Omaha World-Herald
By Bob Fischbach As the circumstances surrounding a contemporary Iranian divorce case unfold in "A Separation," turning ever darker and more complicated, director-screenwriter Asghar Farhadi puts his audience in an uncomfortable spot.
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Concord library to show 'Do It Again,' a film about fandom
Wicked Local
"Do It Again," a "fan documentary" about reuniting the Kinks, an influential British rock and roll group, explores the journey of Geoff Edgers, a major Kinks fan and the film's screenwriter, and what fandom is about. A special showing of "Do It Again," ...
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Corbin remains a Texas original, heads for Film Hall of Fame
Austin 360
Austin screenwriter Bill Wittliff, who adapted Larry McMurtry's novel "Lonesome Dove" for TV, says Barry Corbin nailed the role at his audition. "There was simply no other choice. We never read anybody else. Barry came in, and there was Roscoe.
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Austin 360
Rodrigo Pla on the Guadalajara Premiere of 'La Demora' (Q&A)
Hollywood Reporter
In Mexico Pla met his wife and screenwriter-to-be Laura Santullo, also an Uruguayan transplant. Together they moved back to Montevideo to work on Pla's third feature film, La Demora (The Delay), which will have its Latin America premiere at the ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden Film Set Swarmed by Hindu Protesters in ...
TheWrap
The film -- which sparked calls for an investigation over claims that the Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were given insider information about the mission to take down bin Laden -- has now invoked the ire of a radical Hindu group.
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Shandi Mitchell wins $25000 Kobzar Literary Award
The Coast Halifax
Shandi Mitchell—award-winning Canadian director, screenwriter (Gasoline Puddles, The Hanging Garden, Beefcake and The Disappeared) and novelist—is the recipient of the biennial $25000 Kobzar Literary Award for her debut novel, Under This Unbroken Sky ...
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The Coast Halifax
Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch and Matthew Morrison's play read "8" to livestream
Examiner.com
"Glee" stars Chris Colfer, Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch join an all-star cast headlined by Martin Sheen and recent Oscar nominees George Clooney and Brad Pitt tomorrow, March 3rd, for a one-night-only benefit reading of Oscar winning screenwriter ...
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LA Reading of 8 Brings Its Story Home March 3; George Clooney, Brad Pitt ...
Playbill.com
Academy Award-winning "Milk" screenwriter Black authored the play that utilizes the original transcripts from the 2010 Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, which sought to overturn the 2008 voter-approved Prop. 8 legislation that denied same sex couples the ...
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Playbill.com
Bears closed '79 season with unbelievable day
ChicagoBears.com
If a Hollywood screenwriter had proposed a script about what the Bears experienced on Dec. 16, 1979, he no doubt would have been told that the events were too farfetched to be made into a movie. With an epic victory, a miraculous comeback nearly 1000 ...
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Release Date Set for End of Watch , Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena
ComingSoon.net
... which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, Frank Grillo and America Ferrera and is written and directed by David Ayer (writer/director of Street Kings and Harsh Times; screenwriter of Training Day, The Fast and the Furious and SWAT).
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ComingSoon.net
Sexy Without Trying
RopeofSilicon.com (blog)
I'm sure we'll see a recreation of the iconic shower scene and I hope, at the very least, there will be a scene dedicated to the conversation between Hitchcock and screenwriter Joseph Stefano with Stefano urging Hitchcock to show the flushing toilet.
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RopeofSilicon.com (blog)
Still Makes You Feel Alright
Anglophenia
The film's infectious joie de vivre can be attributed to a fortuitous collaboration between American-born director Richard Lester, screenwriter Alun Owen and the Beatles themselves. Lester would go on to direct Help!, the group's second film, ...
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Kathryn Bigelow's 'Kill Bin Laden' Now Titled 'Zero Dark Thirty'; Production ...
Indie Wire (blog)
Of course, there is still that ongoing (and pointless) Pentagon investigation about whether or not Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were leaked classified documents, but now a different kind of concern has hit the production.
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Clooney and Pitt Join Star-studded Gay Play
HispanicBusiness.com
The play, called 8, was written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Lance Black and focuses on the legal battle to introduce gay marriage in the state. According to the announcement, Pitt will play a judge in the case who came out as gay after issuing a ...
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HispanicBusiness.com
Celebrity Reading Of Prop 8 Play To Be Broadcast On YouTube
WFMY News 2
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch and others will read the play, written by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, according to Entertainment Weekly. Pitt will play the United States ...
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WFMY News 2
Spanish embassy screens Chico and Rita
Zimbabwe Independent
It was produced by award-winning Spanish book editor, screenwriter, film director and producer, Fernando Trueba. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them ...
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Kelly: Payne's mom wins for best-tressed
Omaha World-Herald
After the hairstyling Sunday, Mary watched the Oscars from Alexander's Topanga Canyon home with her nephew, aspiring screenwriter David Radcliff, an Omaha Westside High grad. Alexander's house, she said, has lots of Omaha memorabilia.
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[Movies] Release Date Set For End Of Watch
411mania.com
It was written and directed by David Ayer (Street Kings, Harsh Times, screenwriter of Training Day). Gyllenhaal and Pena play young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala as they "patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles.
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Jolie at the Oscars: The infamous, emaciated leg
Examiner.com
A screenwriter of the Descendents was the one who started the trend that has now been dubbed Jolie'ing, in reference to Jolie's signature pose. However, it is intriguing that everyone is ignoring the most blatant part of Jolie's appearance at the ...
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Ralph Fiennes' directing debut in Coriolanus is a bloody triumph
The Daily Telegraph
With screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator), Fiennes has set this story of a disaffected Roman general in contemporary times and shot the film in Belgrade, Serbia. The movie's look, of commandos carrying out assaults through shattered urban streets, ...
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James Bond Retrospective: LIVE AND LET DIE (1973)
WhatCulture!
Assisted by screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, who actually tailored the script to suit Moore's approach to the character. Moore did not require any time to find his feet, unlike his predecessors he hits the ground running seizing the role as his own ...
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Andrew Stanton Brings "John Carter" From Pulp Page to Silver Screen
NBC Chicago (blog)
And then I pulled in one of the few friends I had at Pixar that knew the property as well and loved it as well, [screenwriter] Mark Andrews, and that's pretty much how it all got started. He started slowly working on it while I was trying to finish up ...
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Truman Capote's Brooklyn Heights house sells for $12M
New York Daily News
screenwriter and author Peter Hedges, who once lived and still writes in the neighborhood. "You can imagine Capote running around with his slippers on. " "My son used to play with a boy who lived in the house, and it really is just an amazing building ...
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New York Daily News
George Clooney, Brad Pitt reportedly starring in Prop 8 play
Hollywoodnews.com
The two will reportedly be performing in the March 3rd production of screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's play, '8,' states UsMagazine.com. Pitt will reportedly play Prop 8 opposer US District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker while Clooney will play David ...
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March video releases
Beaver County Times
She returns to her Minnesota hometown in hopes of getting back together with her old boyfriend, even though he's happily married with children. Screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman, who created the 2007 hit "Juno" (2007), team again.
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Ashton Kutcher Is Dating His "Platonic" Friend Lorene Scafaria
YourTango
According to Us Weekly Ashton and the 33-year-old screenwriter were acting very much like a couple at the bash, where they mingled with celebs like Cameron Diaz, Katy Perry, and Leonardo Dicaprio. If you remember, Ashton and Lorene were also ...
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Kathryn Bigelow's Osama Bin Laden Movie Facing Protests In ...
Huffington Post
In January, the CIA opened an official investigation into the project over whether the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Mark Boal were leaked classified material regarding the recent capture and assassination of the late al Qaeda leader.
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The glory days of horror conventions
TG Daily
John Russo, screenwriter of Night of the Living Dead, made his first horror convention appearance in 1985. "That opened my eyes to it," he says. He's appeared at hundreds since then, and still goes to eight to ten conventions a year.
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Pitt and Clooney together for reading of 8
Calgary Herald
8, which was written by Milk and J. Edgar screenwriter Black, based on trial transcripts and first-hand courtroom observations - had its world premiere in September 2011 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in New York. The West Coast premiere reading will be ...
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Jordon Kaiser, 1922-2012
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Kaiser's brother Burton was a screenwriter and producer whose production team won a 1970 Tony Award for Best Play for Frank McMahon's "Borstal Boy." He died of a heart attack in 2004. In addition to his wife and brother Walter, Mr. Kaiser is ...
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Chicago Tribune
Backyard secret
Financial Times
Channelling the spirit of Joe Orton, screenwriter Lisa O'Donnell's first novel splits the narration between the sisters and Lennie, the gay pensioner next door who takes them under his wing. Throughout, O'Donnell cuts black comedy with a big dollop of ...
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