Thursday, March 29, 2012

Screenplay News--3.29.12

 
Norwegian Film Strikes Charming and Controversial Notes, Winning Best ...
Huffington Post (blog)
The documentary director (Scenes from a Friendship, The Clown Children) adapted the film from the novel by Olaug Nilssen and won the award for best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival. TMOD! concerns itself with 15-year-old Alma -- played with ...
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Ramayan: An English Screenplay by Dr. Nik Nikam
Indo American News
Nik: No, this book is an English screenplay of the Ramayan. Nik: I had a lot of fun writing this, but I had to take a crash course in screenplay writing to complete this project. Nik: In 2011, I was involved with the Ram Leela, a three-hour stage-play ...
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"Music Has Legs" Chicago Screenplay Selected for Funding by Kickstarter
PR Web (press release)
The poignant and inspiring story of Juan Manuel Pineda, transformed into a screenplay called "Music Has Legs," was recently selected by Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com) as one of its featured projects. The ultimate goal is to produce a ...
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PR Web (press release)
You're Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don't: Making a Film in an ...
Huffington Post
In the fall of 2008, I wrote a screenplay I intended to film entirely in an Alzheimer's unit. After many weeks of rehearsals, I arrived at a troubling realization: I was not just making a challenging film -- I was making the wrong film.
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How '50/50' Writer Will Reiser Changed Lives and Became an Accidental Icon
Hollywood Reporter
When he beat the disease, and decided to write a screenplay about the experience, it meant keeping the work secret, out of fear that his personal reflection on his fight as a twenty-something with the life-threatening disease would somehow offend those ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Movie review 'Mirror Mirror' looks marvelous but falls flat as film
The Seattle Times
Directed by Tarsem Singh, from a screenplay by Marc Klein and Jason Keller. 95 minutes. Rated PG for some fantasy action and mild rude humor. Several theaters. No comments have been posted to this article. If looks could kill, watching "Mirror Mirror" ...
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New Castle dad has big film ties
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Joe Larese/The Journal News CHAPPAQUA — On a recent Saturday, Mark Bomback puzzled over a story idea for a screenplay. The down-to-earth, 40-year-old bespectacled screenwriter, whose movie credits include the 2010 action thriller "Unstoppable," ...
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Exclusive trailer and interview: 'Insurgent' by Veronica Roth
USA TODAY
The first book Divergent — which was optioned as a film last year by Summit Entertainment, Evan Daugherty (Snow White and the Huntsman) penning the screenplay — chronicled Tris' story as she goes through the ferocious initiation into Dauntless and ...
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USA TODAY
FILM REVIEW: A Dangerous Method
Newcastle Herald
It's a quality this film has in abundance, both in the crispness of its imagery and the lucidity of its screenplay. Much of the credit for the former must go to veteran British cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, who has worked on 10 films with Canadian ...
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Lily Collins wants to write, direct
NDTV
Actress Lily Collins is fascinated by filmmaking and would love to write a screenplay and direct a movie. "I would love to write. I started writing a screenplay recently because I love writing for newspapers and magazines and I always considered that ...
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BBC REJECTS SCREENPLAY ABOUT ISLAMIC TERRORISM ...
The lapdog pansies that they are. The sooner BBC and the state funded news organizations of every western state is removed from the public dole, the better.
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