Screenplay News--4.12.12

Warners Rejects Joe Eszterhas' Screenplay for Mel Gibson's Maccabee Project Hollywood Reporter Warner Bros. has put Mel Gibson's movie about the biblical figure Judah Maccabee on hold after rejecting the screenplay written by Joe Eszterhas, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The project made waves in September when it was set up as a pitch ... See all stories on this topic » Hollywood Reporter

Bulletin Board: Screenplay Competition, Computer Gaming Job, and Grants for ... Patheos (blog) is holding its second annual Screenplay Competition. Got an idea for a movie? Get it ready for the June 1 deadline (May 1 is the Early Bird deadline), but be sharp. Act One is serious about the film industry, so make sure your screenplay is written to ... See all stories on this topic »

Songwriter, singer and actor Ed Bruce pitches cowboy movie, writes screenplay Jackson Sun KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun In a career that started in the late 1950s and has included writing some country music classics, Ed Bruce has now introduced a new facet to his creativity — movie screenplay writer. Bruce was a senior in high school ... See all stories on this topic »

The Three Stooges Variety Screenplay, Mike Cerrone, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly. Leave it to a sibling comedy duo to recognize the potential for brotherly love amid the Three Stooges' slap-happy antics, adding a welcome heartwarming dynamic to the gang's signature eye-poking ... See all stories on this topic » Variety

Mel Gibson vs. Joe Eszterhas MiamiHerald.com Mel Gibson has fired a return volley toward Joe Eszterhas in the jousting over why Warner Bros. rejected the screenwriter's screenplay for a proposed movie about Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee. The studio said Wednesday that it was not proceeding with ... See all stories on this topic »

Hypotheticals: Kubrick's "Napoleon" Flavorwire He first hired Napoleon scholar and biographer Felix Markham as overseeing historical director, and bought the rights to Markham's book, which he used as a rough basis for his screenplay. While the filmmaker devoured hundreds of other biographies, ... See all stories on this topic »

'Cabin in the Woods' Director Drew Goddard Talks Risk, Reward, 'The Shining ... RopeofSilicon.com (blog) Drew Goddard's name entered social consciousness in 2008 when his screenplay for the monster feature Cloverfield assaulted the box-office following a lengthy and mysterious marketing campaign. That film, produced by JJ Abrams and directed by Matt ... See all stories on this topic » RopeofSilicon.com (blog)

Kids Almanac: Minnewaska's Babes in the Woods, raptors, teen screenwriting ... Almanac Weekly The Elting Library in New Paltz is hosting a "Screenplay Writing Workshop for Teens" led by Los Angeles writer/musician Chris Zerby. Zerby explains, "I started working with teens several years ago here in Los Angeles through a program called 'Spoken ... See all stories on this topic » Almanac Weekly

Joe Eszterhas to Mel Gibson: You Hate Jews! The Hollywood Gossip Joe Eszterhas, a screenwriter tasked with penning the since-rejected screenplay for Mel Gibson's latest movie, has accused the actor of anti-Semitism. "You hate Jews," bluntly says Basic Instinct and Showgirls writer Eszterhas, who was to write ... See all stories on this topic » The Hollywood Gossip

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Screenplay Write and Wrongs » Blog Archive » Not long to go! Anticipation… The beginning, or the end? Let's not be overly dramatic now… it's probably just better to be patient, because after all, the Quarter-Finalists from ... reelauthors.com/blog/screenplay/not-long-to-go/

'Bedbugs' to Crawl Into Theaters With Screenplay from Ti West Tango Pictures have acquired the film rights to the Ben H. Winters' horror novel Bedbugs, and they've already got a writer lined up, as Deadline reports that. thefilmstage.com/.../bedbugs-to-crawl-into-theaters-with-scree...