Script Writer News--3.27.12

The (Un)Romantic Path of Literary Fiction: Alfred A. Knopf (Part II) Huffington Post My misgivings about novelizing an old screenplay were growing alarmingly more palpable. I started to curse my agent for twisting my arm to ink a deal with the supposed crème-de-la-crème of the publishing world, damn the idea, to hell with the writer ... See all stories on this topic »

Getting My Script Into Shape with The Screenplay Workshop Slackerwood Needless to say, there is a high demand for classes at The Screenplay Workshop for aspiring and professional writers alike. I won't give away many of the details of Chamberlin's "Nutshell" technique, which was the main focus of the introductory class. See all stories on this topic » Slackerwood

Writer/Directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg Talk AMERICAN REUNION Collider.com We'd put together the whole outline, and then we would split up different things. We'd each write separate things and then read each other's stuff. But, by the time you have the finished script, it's a joint vision that we both really have. See all stories on this topic » Collider.com

Marblehead's David Roper navigates through years of stories about life at sea MetroWest Daily News He also began a business in 1982, storing resumes, wills, trusts and other documents on a computer, and then re-writing them, during a time when hardly anyone had a computer. His business evolved into a career-counseling firm, A-Script Career Services ... See all stories on this topic »

WC12: Hollywood and Comics Collide Comic Book Resources Moderated by Benjamin Jackendoff, a producer at Zenescope Entertainment, panelists included writer Kevin Grevioux ("Underworld"); director Jon Schnepp ("Metalocolypse"); writer Martin Shapiro ("Chopper"), producer and Chairman of Platinum Studios, ... See all stories on this topic »

Pupil who went on to script TV classics Shields Gazette But in respect of the little boy in the third row here, with the striped tie, we know now that it would be a glittering career as a writer and the man behind two of the most iconic TV series of the late 1960s-1970s, the spy thriller, Callan, ... See all stories on this topic » Shields Gazette

Film Flam: Fest news, Alamo expands, script to screen, + 'Hunger' game Austin Chronicle (blog) There are plans afoot to raise money to send the writer/director and cast members to the fest; when we hear about it, you will too. There are only so many variations on the whole Alamo Drafthouse-march-toward-world-domination lede, so we'll just tell ... See all stories on this topic » Austin Chronicle (blog)

No Stopping For Charan's Bollywood Project Times of India This indeed restricts the present writers and directors to change the original form of script. However, Amit Mehra, producer of Charan's debut hindi flick made it clear that they will meet Salim-Javed duo once the script work is finished. See all stories on this topic »