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Hollywood's worst screenwriter strikes again
Salon
By Toph Eggers The screenwriting community is a pretty affable one. Because we exist on the extreme margins of the film community; get fired and re-hired without remorse; take abuse from cast members, executives and directors alike; and generally get ...
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Salon
Screenwriter Steve Galluccio: "Funkytown was snubbed by the Jutra and Genie ...
Montreal Gazette (blog)
Quebec's film business is thriving. Director Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar was even nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar this year. What is surprising is that Steve Galluccio's critically acclaimed Funkytown – one of the top 10 grossing ...
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Screenwriter Tom Pope will speak at next "Writers on Writing" segment
Stillwater Gazette
Screenwriter Tom Pope, who has worked with directors ranging from Penny Marshal to Francis Ford Coppola and penned scripts for "Sweetland," "Someone To Watch Over Me" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," will speak on scriptwriting at ArtReach ...
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NFDC Screenwriters' Lab 2012 invites entries, introduces entry fee
DearCinema
By NewsDesk | Saturday, March 10th, 2012 NFDC Screenwriters' Lab 2012 is now inviting entries. The workshop has introduced an entry fee of INR 3000 from its 2012 edition. Conducted by National Film Development Corporation Ltd. (NFDC) in association ...
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'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' Gets Back On The Road
NPR
12:00 pm ET by Frank Cottrell Boyce Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor. Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor. Ian Fleming's beloved Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is back for ...
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J.R.R. Tolkien to be portrayed on feature film for first time ever
Examiner.com
March 9, 2012 - NarniaWeb.com held an interview yesterday with Darren Scott Jacobs, one of the screenwriters working on The Lion Awakes, an upcoming film chronicling formative years in CS Lewis' life and which will also be the first time JRR Tolkien ...
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Simon Beaufoy talks 'Salmon Fishing,' 'Hunger Games' sequel
Los Angeles Times
It's what led the Oscar-winning screenwriter to such films as "The Full Monty," "Slumdog Millionaire" and "127 Hours." Beaufoy's latest work, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," features the requisite challenging experience with his two protagonists, ...
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Sony Pictures Locks Down 'Dance Of The Dead' Team For 'Lockdown At Franklin High'
Bloody Disgusting
Director Gregg Bishop and Screenwriter Joe Ballarini fashioned a great, fun gory and touching John Hughes influenced yarn out of a meager budget. I recommend it highly. Not they're back with Lockdown At Franklin High, "about a straight edge teen girl ...
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Bloody Disgusting
What Do You Want to Know About Sarah Palin? Ask Danny Strong, Screenwriter of ...
Big Think
Danny Strong is an actor and screenwriter who received an Emmy nomination for Recount, about the 2000 election. His latest film is the controversial and highly anticipated HBO film Game Change, which focuses on John McCain's decision to select Sarah ...
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The Cabin in the Woods: Film Review
Hollywood Reporter
NEW YORK – Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon, respectively director and producer as well as co-screenwriters of this long-stalled feature, have described The Cabin in the Woods as their bid to revitalize the horror movie by subverting genre conventions.
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Hollywood Reporter
Weekly Ketchup: Chronicle Director in Talks for Venom
Rotten Tomatoes
First, 20th Century Fox has hired screenwriter Max Landis, who made his feature debut with Chronicle to start working on a sequel. There's no word yet about what the sequel might be about, but the first film was about three high school friends who ...
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7pm at Landmark La Jolla
San Diego 6
From the beloved director of Chocolat and the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. A visionary sheik (Amr Waked) believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing ...
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Girls Against Boys (2012)
Dread Central
Girls Against Boys is not about women seeking revenge against their male tormentors - that's a premise more suited for B-movie exploitation - and although that's its main selling point, director/screenwriter Austin Chick's new film delves much deeper.
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Not Your Average Horror Heroine
Home Media Magazine
Actual horrific events that transpired in the Pennsylvania countryside during the fall of 1973 are the basis of thriller The Fields, which screenwriter Bruce Smith lived. Steven (Joshua Ormand), the character based on Smith, is a curious kid who spends ...
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Akiva Goldsman to Adapt 'Lucid' Comic Book for Warner Bros. Film
First Showing
by Ethan Anderton While Akiva Goldsman has plenty of experience as a screenwriter behind the pages of films like A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend, Cinderella Man and more, it's his producing skills that will be utilized for a new project this time.
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Lorene Scafaria: Who is Ashton Kutcher's New Girlfriend? 8 Things To Know
International Business Times
The 34-year-old actor tweeted a photograph of himself on vacation in Italy with the Scafaria, a 33-year-old screenwriter. But at the time, Kutcher's rep told the media that they two were "just friends," according to People.com.
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International Business Times
Toronto Connection
Vancouver Sun
Kira Urquhart: Director, Screenwriter, Editor Sara Lynn Bruhns: Production Design, Wardrobe Kendra Luckhart: 1st AD, Screenwriter Frances Breden: Editor Sara Lynn Bruhns Heritage Woods Secondary Toronto Connection.
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But this one doesn't disappoint.
CNN (blog)
The director, Jay Roach, and screenwriter, Danny Strong, succeed because they only take a chunk of the book and drill down on it. That involves McCain's selection of the then-Alaska governor to be his vice presidential running mate and the events that ...
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Walt Disney Pictures Plans Paladin
ComingSoon.net
Walt Disney Pictures is developing a film called Paladin from screenwriter Max Borenstein, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. Little is known about the specifics of the plot, but it's said to be a sci-fi adventure project separate from the ...
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Some 'Change'
National Review Online (blog)
By Jim Geraghty HBO director Jay Roach and screenwriter Danny Strong spent millions of dollars and cast some of Hollywood's biggest stars in an unparalleled effort to dispel the widespread misperception that John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign was ...
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Check Out 'Young Adult' On DVD & Blu-ray March 13
Starpulse.com
"Juno" collaborators Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody re-team for the Paramount Pictures production. Fun fact: The dog Hummer from the film was nominated for a Golden Collar Award, and Quentin Tarantino listed the movie as one of his ...
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Starpulse.com
Gavin Creel, Rachel de Benedet, Jamie LaVerdiere, Roscoe Orman Set for 8 Event ...
TheaterMania.com
By Dan Bacalzo • Mar 9, 2012 • New Jersey Academy Award-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's play 8 will receive a one-night-only staged reading at Montclair State University in New Jersey on Saturday, March 24, at 7:30pm.
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TheaterMania.com
'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' Movie Review (2012)
RopeofSilicon.com
The first two-thirds of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen are quite good, but around that 70-minute mark it's as if screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) handed off script duties to someone that has only watched horrible romantic comedies their ...
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RopeofSilicon.com
Tonight… or Tomorrow… But For Sure This Weekend… Just Do This For Me.
Comic Book Resources
I'm still bitter about what a letdown THAT was.... and apparently, so is its original screenwriter Robert Towne. Usually with a Burroughs movie adaptation, you wonder why the hell they bought the rights at all, because the filmmakers clearly had no ...
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Comic Book Resources
SXSW 2012: '21 Jump Street,' And How Studios Have Started Using Austin To ...
Moviefone
"In my experience, there are three amazing film cities in America: Los Angeles, New York and Austin," said Michael Bacall, the screenwriter behind "21 Jump Street," which will have its premiere at SXSW on Monday night before hitting theaters on March ...
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Weekend TV talk shows
Los Angeles Times
"Game Change": Screenwriter -producer Danny Strong, director Jay Roach. Super Tuesday coverage: Erin McPike; Eleanor Clift; Ramesh Ponnuru. (N) 8 am CNN Face the Nation Republican presidential race: Newt Gingrich. Obama's reelection efforts: Obama ...
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Saturday Link-A-Mania
SFX
[via The Hollywood Reporter] • Walt Disney is developing a sci-fi space adventure called Paladin from screenwriter Max Borenstein (who, among other things, has done some script work on Gareth Edwards's Godzilla). [via The Hollywood Reporter] • Director ...
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SFX
'Game Change' Tells Story of 2008 Presidential Campaign
Kansas City infoZine
Palin has said she won't watch the movie, although the crew offered a private showing, screenwriter Danny Strong said. Palin has launched a counterattack video, "Game Change We Can Believe In." "What was so surprising to me about that video was that ...
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Theatre of the absurd: Frighteningly so!
Deccan Chronicle
As Austin, the suave, well-educated, successful screenwriter is hoping the good-for-nothing thief he has for a brother will stay out of his way, little does he expect what happens next. One thing leads to another and before they know it, ...
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McCain and Palin movie premieres on HBO
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Both politicians say the filmmakers make historical inaccuracies in the film. The screenwriter said he interviewed 25 people connected to the campaign and that the movie is a result of their interviews. The film is based on the best-selling book.
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ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
Harrelson performance really makes 'Rampart'
Omaha World-Herald
Harrelson was nominated once before working with director-screenwriter Oren Moverman in "The Messenger," a 2009 movie about a Marine whose duty is to notify next of kin that their loved one has died in the line of duty. That movie ended on a note of ...
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'Game Change' premiere lets Washington insiders relive drama of Election 2008
Washington Post
"A brokered convention," screenwriter Danny Strong said. "If one of the candidates were drafted," said Palin player Julianne Moore, dressed in an emerald Tom Ford with bunchy velvet sleeves and a neckline that plunged more dramatically than Rick ...
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Movie Review: Go Fish!
Movie Fanatic
Thankfully for fans of the book Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, by author Paul Torday, they have a stellar cast (Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas), filmmaker (Chocolat director Lasse Hallstrom) and screenwriter (Simon Beaufoy, ...
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Movie Fanatic
The Films That Led to Game Change
Smithsonian (blog)
Even though there's no such thing as bad publicity, the film quickly came under attack, with Palin aides calling it inaccurate and Game Change screenwriter Danny Strong defending his work as "as fair and accurate a telling of this event that we believe ...
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Smithsonian (blog)
'Lucid' comic book to be adapted by Warner Bros
Digital Spy
A screenwriter for the movie adaptation is yet to be appointed, Variety reports Lucid follows the adventures of spy and combat mage Matthew Dee, drawing inspiration from the spy genre, Arthurian legend and 21st-century folklore.
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Rosemarie DeWitt Finds Gus Van Sant's Promised Land
ComingSoon.net
First announced last fall, the drama is based on an idea formulated between Krasinski and author/screenwriter Dave Eggers ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," Away We Go, Where the Wild Things Are). Back in October of last year, Damon himself ...
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ComingSoon.net
Sarah Palin Responds to 'Game Change'
ABC News (blog)
From the Associated Press: "Palin wasn't the primary focus of the book, and he said he told screenwriter and co-executive producer Danny Strong that the book "absolutely, unequivocally" did not accurately reflect his time with the McCain campaign.
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ABC News (blog)
Fist Of Dragon
The Sun Daily
As much as the screenwriter and director want to make this film realistic, it is far from being real. The entire atmosphere feels fake and it certainly does not seem like it is set in Malaysia because there is no local element to it.
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The Sun Daily
Chronicle Writer Returning For Sequel
MoviesOnline
While CHRONICLE director Josh Trank is possibly moving on to bigger and better things in the near future it has been reported that the screenwriter of the telepathic teen flick, Max Landis, is coming back to work on the sequel.
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Eddie Murphy falls flat in new comedy film Thousand words, FEW LAUGHS
Youngstown Vindicator
Screenwriter Steve Koren gave us "Bruce Almighty" and "Evan Almighty," so he's going to get the mystical/spiritual side of the movie right. But he and director Brian Robbins ("Meet Dave," "Norbit") completely botch the set-up.
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