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Screenwriter and director Stephen Sommers lists Malibu estate at $13.5 million
Los Angeles Times
(Jeff Elson) By Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times Screenwriter and director Stephen Sommers and his wife, Jana, have listed their estate in Malibu for sale at $13.5 million. Set in the gated community of Serra Retreat at the end of a cul-de-sac, ...
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Los Angeles Times
Screenwriter Michael Bacall Updates the Les Grossman Movie and 21 Jump Street ...
Reelz
Last April, Bill Hader, who played Grossman's assistant Rob Slolom, revealed that screenwriter Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) had finished the script for the movie, which was the first news about the project since Paramount studio ...
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Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg Set to Punch Up Michael Bay's 'Pain and Gain'
Film School Rejects
According to THR, screenwriter Scott Rosenberg has been brought in "for polish and punch-up duties" on the film's script. First penned by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (all three The Chronicles of Narnia films, Captain America: The First ...
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Sundance London 2012 Announces Film Programme
HeyUGuys.co.uk
Winner of the Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Filly Brown (Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos, Screenwriter: Youssef Delara) — A Hip Hop-driven drama about a Mexican girl who rises to fame ...
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Writer Michael Bacall Talks About Tom Cruise's Les Grossman Movie
First Showing
by Ethan Anderton Screenwriter Michael Bacall has been on a role lately. Though it may not have hit the box office hard, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a modern cult classic and a spectacularly written film. In addition, Project X made some decent bank ...
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Sundance London film programme announced
Flickering Myth (blog)
Filly Brown (Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos, Screenwriter: Youssef Delara) — A Hip Hop-driven drama about a Mexican girl who rises to fame and consciousness as she copes with the incarceration of her mother through music.
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Flickering Myth (blog)
Project X Vs. 21 Jump Street: The Kids Are All Confused
Movieline
Both were penned by the same actor-turned-screenwriter, Michael Bacall, who also captured the slings and arrows of slacker youth heroism in 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So why are Project X and 21 Jump Street so diametrically opposed when it ...
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Michael Pena To Star As Cesar Chavez In Labor Organizer's Biopic
Cinema Blend
It's been nearly two years since Oscar-nominated screenwriter Keir Pearson announced his plans to write a biopic about Cesar Chavez, the labor organizer who fought for the rights of migrant farm workers in the Southwest in the 1960s and 70s.
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Cinema Blend
Omaha Film Festival Gets Underway
WOWT
Among the homegrown talent is Screenwriter/Director Nik Fackler who showed what can be accomplished from right here in the metro. The 26-year-old's passion for film really began back in high school at Millard West. "I started writing screenplays when I ...
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Sarah Palin attacks HBO's film 'Game Change' about Sarah Palin
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Screenwriter Danny Strong, in an interview last week at the Woodruff Arts Center before a screening of the film, said he inserted that dialogue, tongue purely in cheek. "She can still dominate a news cycle," Strong said. "Hollywood lies are Hollywood ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
14 films make cut in Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
Minneapolis Star Tribune
While many of this year's films have a Jewish screenwriter or cast, the must-have element of every film is a Jewish theme, Elias said. Beyond that, the films range from a family drama about a mother in 1960s Poland who decides to move her anti-Semitic ...
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Direk Joey makes appeal to young filmmakers
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines -- Amid the growing controversy surrounding this year's Cinemalaya Film Festival, noted movie director and screenwriter Jose Javier Reyes gave his unsolicited advice to upcoming filmmakers. "This is my appeal to the young ...
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Will a 'Project X' Sequel Suffer the Same Story Fate as 'The Hangover 2'?
Film School Rejects
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Michael Bacall, co-screenwriter for Project X, has been hired to create a treatment for a possible sequel. Both producer Todd Phillips and Warners will get to decide whether they want to move forward with it, ...
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Lottie Moon film aims for theaters, DVD
BP News
"Lottie's life and message needs to reach a new generation," said Erich Bridges, screenwriter and a producer for "Heart of a Rebel," a feature-length film in development about Moon, who spent 40 years in China teaching young girls and sharing the ...
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'Hunger Games' sequel already in the works, release date November 2013!
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy told E! News on Monday night that he just finished the draft, and it's on Collins' desk for notes. "I just finished the first draft, literally a few days ago," Beaufoy said. "I'm waiting to see what everyone thinks.
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Dustin Lance Black Talks '8' Play, Marriage Equality And The Coming Out Struggle
Huffington Post
On the weekend in which a star-studded reading of the play "8" was performed in Los Angeles, raising $2 million for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the group which challenged Prop 8 in federal court, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin ...
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Sundance London Film Festival Announces Line Up
Cult Hub Magazine
(Director and screenwriter: Terence Nance) — A quixotic young man humorously courses live action and various animated landscapes as he tries to understand himself after a mystery girl stands him up. Directed by Terance Nance, An Oversimplification of ...
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Cult Hub Magazine
I made some unmentionable, pathetic films: Mahesh Bhatt
Daily Bhaskar
Sitting at the Dailybhaskar office in Mumbai, the screenwriter-director-producer spoke at length about his body of work and why he has taken the conscious decision of not directing films anymore. "I am an extinct volcano," said Bhatt.
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Simon Beaufoy Promises Faithful Adaptation of Catching Fire
Crave Online
By William Bibbiani Simon Beaufoy, screenwriter of The Full Monty, Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours was in Los Angeles Monday talking about his adaptation of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. In a roundtable with journalists he talked about how freely he ...
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'Project X' sequel already in the works
Chicago Tribune
TheWrap has confirmed that screenwriter Michael Bacall, who wrote the $12 million found footage film that grossed $21 million over the weekend, began work on a potential sequel well before the movie opened. The Warner Bros. movie is about three high ...
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Drew Goddard Gives Update on CLOVERFIELD Sequel
Collider.com
Fans were eager to see more of the found footage monster pic after its 2008 release, and producer JJ Abrams, director Matt Reeves, and screenwriter Drew Goddard have been plagued with Cloverfield sequel questions for the past three and a half years.
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Collider.com
Anna Faris, Rose Byrne star in I Give It A Year
Hindustan Times
The What's Your Number? actor and the Bridesmaids star have been cast opposite Rafe Spall and Simon Baker in the picture, written and directed by Bruno and Borat screenwriter Dan Mazer, reported The movie tells the tale of a couple who are trying to ...
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'Chronicle' director in line for 'Spider-Man' spin-off 'Venom'
NME.com
Screenwriter Jacob Estes had previously turned in a script portraying Venom as an anti-hero rather than a villain, but Sony are apparently looking for a new script as well as a director and star. There is no word yet on whether the film would tie in ...
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NME.com
VIDEO: Dramatization of Prop 8 Lawsuit Premieres, Beginning Nationwide Productions
Campus Progress
"8," a play written by Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, pulls directly from trial transcripts to tell the stories of both Prop 8 and the ongoing court cases, exposing anti-gay arguments and telling the plaintiffs' stories.
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Dustin Lance Black Talks Prop 8 Play
The Inquisitr
Last weekend there was a who's who of celebrities that came out to read a play by playwright/screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on the issues surrounding inequality for same sexed couples. This reading, which was streamed on Youtube, went on to raise $2 ...
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'NYC 22': Adam Goldberg, Leelee Sobieski hit the streets in CBS' De Niro ...
Entertainment Weekly
The new show counts Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal among its executive producers and was created by Richard Price (the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Color of Money who also wrote five episodes of The Wire). Watch an exclusive promo below.
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Entertainment Weekly
Ashton Kutcher dating Lorene Scafaria?
Hindustan Times
However, the actor insists his relationship with the screenwriter is purely platonic but a source claimed the duo seemed to be romantically involved at a charity function on February 25. "They were affectionate. When they thought no one was watching, ...
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Hindustan Times
Terence Davies to Direct MOTHER OF SORROW
Movies.ie
British screenwriter and director Terence Davies, who most recently directed the 1950s-set melodrama 'The Deep Blue Sea,' is developing a big screen adaptation of Richard McCann's 2005 novel 'Mother of Sorrows.' McCann's novel consists of ten ...
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Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill talk "21 Jump Street"
CBS News
So when Jonah Hill called him up about doing "21 Jump Street," a comedy remake of the popular late '80s TV show, Tatum thought the fellow actor and screenwriter had the wrong number. Hill said he was looking to make "21 Jump Street" into a "Bad Boys ...
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Christopher Nolan's Cinematographer Wally Pfister to Direct First Feature
/FILM (blog)
Pfister is being backed by Alcon Entertainment on a film that new screenwriter Jack Paglen wrote. The film is currently untitled, and we don't have any details on the story. It's also too early for casting info, so this is a pretty brief story.
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SXSW 2012: Top 5 Anticipated Crowd-Pleasers
MTV.com
Screenwriter(s): Your guess is as good as mine. Cinematographer: Someone amazing. Principal Cast: Great actors." The Midnighters series, of which the Super Secret Screening is a part, is worth a mention because these 11 or so films are usually ...
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Ovation Delivering On Demand Fare to Comcast Markets
Multichannel News
... Beau Bridges, Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, and Anna Kendrick; recent Academy Award-winner, director Alexander Payne; screenwriter Will Reiser; screenwriter/director Quentin Tarantino; and director/producer/screenwriter/actor Werner Herzog.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Reelz
Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy told E's Marc Malkin, "I just finished the first draft, literally a few days ago. I'm waiting to see what everyone thinks." Those who have read and loved The Hunger Games series can rest assured that Beaufoy is staying true ...
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The Arts Desk
by Alexandra CoghlanWednesday, 07 March 2012 Literary adaptations are a godsend to an industry that loves a good story but is too busy blowing the budget on chase sequences and explosions to pay a decent screenwriter. But among the glossy, ...
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The Arts Desk
Dance, Billy, Dance!
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
Five years later, screenwriter Lee Hall, director Stephen Daldry and singer Elton John would pen a musical version that would win the West End's Olivier Award and 10 Tony Awards on Broadway. Last week, the touring production of Billy Elliott the ...
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SouthFloridaGayNews.com
Portishead's Geoff Barrow & Composer Ben Salisbury Collaborate
Altsounds.com
Other work commitments kept them apart until late 2010, when the pair met up with a screenwriter to discuss some possible work on a feature film project. Although their involvement with this particular film didn't continue, a collaborative writing ...
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Watch the Reading of Dustin Lance Black's "8″ On YouTube To Get Away From ...
NYU Local
By Alex Bedder on March 6th, 2012 If you were not too busy hyping over LiLo's pseudo-return on Saturday Night Live, you may have also caught the west coast premiere of new play by Dustin Lance Black, the Academy Award winning screenwriter of Milk.
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Here's Lollipop Chainsaw's' Cheerleader Heroine and Zombies in the Rotting Flesh
Kotaku
I learned this at Lollipop Chainsaw party held by Warner Brothers Interactive last night at GDC 2012, where James Gunn—the Dawn of the Dead screenwriter who's writing the horror action game—and designer Suda 51 were in attendance.
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'Project X' Sequel Planned; Feminists Rejoice
Hollywood.com
THR reports that screenwriter Michael Bacall*, who together with Matt Drake fashioned Project X's "script," has been commissioned by the studio to draft a treatment for a sequel. The ultimate decision on whether to move forward on the project, however, ...
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Video: 'The Muppets' Parody 'Hunger Games'
Opposing Views
"My goal was to bring the Muppets back," the screenwriter and star told Collider. "And I did that leaving them in very good hands, my writing partner and James Bobin the director. I did what I set out to do, and now I wanna pursue more human-related ...
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Women In Film & Television India Chapter Launched
Hollywood Reporter
The WIFT Mumbai advisory board includes film-maker Kiran Rao (Mumbai Diaries), leading Hindi entertainment channel Colors (run by Viacom18 Networks) head of programming Ashvini Yarde, journalist and film critic Anupama Chopra, screenwriter and director ...
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