Screenplay News--4.16.12

Lights, camera, action! Times of India The existing courses of the institute include a one-year postgraduate certificate course in feature film screenplay writing, two-year postgraduate diploma in acting and two-year postgraduate diploma in art direction and production design. See all stories on this topic »

Big names from big screen visit College Hill The Brown Daily Herald The last event of the film festival was Sunday's screenplay luncheon in Faunce House with the Colin Stanfield and Bill Curran of the Nantucket Film Festival. The winner of the Feature-Length Screenplay category was "Colors," by Cornell's Wybren de ... See all stories on this topic »

EA Wants a Need for Speed Film Escapist Magazine In another attempt to bring a famous videogame franchise to life on the silver screen, Electronic Arts has hired George and John Gatins (of Real Steel and Coach Carter fame) to write a screenplay based on its popular racing franchise, Need for Speed. See all stories on this topic »

More Cabin Fever: The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Visual Companion Television Without Pity You Can Study the Screenplay Again and Again Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's script is a marvel of clever construction and narrative gamesmanship. Aspiring screenwriters -- especially those with a personal predilection for the horror genre -- would be ... See all stories on this topic » Television Without Pity

Akshay Kumar talks business The Express Tribune So one needs to focus on the script and screenplay as well," he said. Explaining the importance of script, he added: "I think script and screenplay are more important than actors in a film. If your script and screenplay are in place, it is big support ... See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune

How we made: Terence Davies and Freda Dowie on Distant Voices, Still Lives The Guardian Everything in the screenplay happened. I had to tone down my father's violence because if I'd put the real levels in, nobody would have believed it. I thought it would be a cathartic project, but I suddenly realised all that suffering was quite ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

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Basing your screenplay on anybody you know? - Time to Write The young lady below seems to be letting art imitate life...up to a point. Actually, this post is just a ... timetowrite.blogs.com/.../basing-your-screenplay-on-anybody...