Screenplay News--4.2.12

Hollywood Screenplay Consultant Robert Flaxman to Speak at Wisconsin Film Festival PR Web (press release) Screenplay consultant Robert Flaxman will speak at the Wisconsin Film Festival following a screening of his film, 'A Labor of Love,' on Sunday, April 22 at 4:15 PM. May 27, 2011: Robert Flaxman discusses "A Labor of Love" during a Q&A at The Cinefamily ... See all stories on this topic » PR Web (press release)

JOLIE VANIER, 14-YEAR-OLD ACTRESS, WINS MAJOR SCREENPLAY AWARD AT THE IFFF ... MediaSyndicate (press release) Posted to MediaSyndicate.com (Apr 01, 2012 - 09:08 PM) : Jolie Vanier, teen author/actress, won the award for best IFFF Youth Fest screenplay in the comedy category (8-13) last weekend at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. Jolie Vanier, teen author/actress, ... See all stories on this topic »

Arnold Schulman's SLEEPING UGLY Set for Santa Monica Playhouse, Aptil-June Broadway World Playwright Schulman is a two-time Oscar nominated screenwriter for Best Original Screenplay for Love with the Proper Stranger in 1963 and Best Adapted Screenplay for Goodbye, Columbus in 1969. He was thrice nominated for a Writer's Guild award for Best ... See all stories on this topic »

Depression Is No Reason to Stop Writing That Screenplay TheWrap (blog) By Anthony Burt I've been absent from my blog for a while. I've been focused on writing two books for Macmillan Publishers and have also edited a script requested to be read by Spielberg's DreamWorks. Except, among it all, my mother was diagnosed with ... See all stories on this topic »

Adam Sandler lands 10 Razzie Awards San Francisco Chronicle (blog) The funnyman was named Worst Actor and Actress for his dual male and female roles in the cross-dressing comedy, which was also branded Worst Picture, Worst Remake and Worst Screenplay. Sandler also shared the prize for Worst Screen Ensemble and Worst ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

West Hartford is 'This Town' in 'Last Stop This Town' Patch.com After being admitted, Steinberg headed for California with his first screenplay in hand – a "Chris-Farley-type" comedy. He was in a class full of budding producers, and they all wanted to produce his screenplay. Steinberg soon realized that he wanted ... See all stories on this topic »

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill wins every Razzie Winnipeg Free Press Adam picked up a host of gongs including Worst Actress, Worst Ensemble, Worst Screenplay, Worst Couple and Worst Actor, which was split for his roles in 'Jack and Jill' and 'Just Go With It'. Al Pacino took home the prize for Worst Supporting Actor ... See all stories on this topic »

Best Selling Novelist Pens Tale of Grandparents Star-Crossed Romance Huffington Post During this time, she wrote the screenplay, Big Stone Gap, about a local pharmacist who keeps the town's secrets, but discovers her family has their own skeletons. The screenplay soon became a fiction series. Trigiani is set to direct the big-screen ... See all stories on this topic »

Adam Sandler's 'Jack and Jill' sweeps the 2011 Razzie Awards Entertainment Weekly Yup, the Adam Sandler comedy about an ad exec (Sandler) and his obnoxious sister (also Sandler) earned Worst Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay, and even the "Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel" award, because the film is a "remake/rip-off of Ed ... See all stories on this topic »

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Call for submissions: Worldwide Shorts 2012 Screenplay Giveaway The Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival has put out a call for submissions for their 2012 Screenplay Giveaway. It's a short film screenwriting ... www.chinokino.com/.../call-for-submissions-worldwide-shorts...