Screenplay News--4.26.12

Debut screenplay made big impression Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette It's my first screenplay." In it, Ezie plays a diva of social media who's thrown off her game after her boyfriend Marcus — the alpha to her omega and the future father of her children — changes his relationship status to single on Facebook. See all stories on this topic » Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

Scott Hicks Says Screenplay Was First Time He Read The Lucky One FemaleFirst.co.uk Scott Hicks has revealed that his first introduction to The Lucky One was when he read the screenplay for the first time. Hicks is back in the director's chair for the first time since The Boys Are Back as he brings another Nichols Sparks novel to the ... See all stories on this topic »

Light One Up: Kelly Oxford Sells Hilarious-Sounding Stoner Screenplay Jezebel Writer/mom Kelly Oxford — named one of Time magazine's best on Twitter — has sold a script called Son of a Bitch, which sounds like it's right up our alley. In the vein of Bridesmaids, the raucous comedy is about a young stoner who tries to maintain ... See all stories on this topic »

Edgar Allan Poe solves crimes based on own stories in 'The Raven' The Seattle Times Directed by James McTeigue, from a screenplay by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. 110 minutes. Rated R for bloody violence and grisly images. Several theaters. I read lots of Poe as a kid. The victims are (almost?) always men -- and they. See all stories on this topic »

Greg Le Duc Fourth Estate Newspaper "Once I took that class, I thought, 'I want to write movie screenplays,'" Le Duc said. Le Duc took all the cinema classes UWGB offered at the time and then began writing proposals for his own classes about filmmaking. "I was turning in films at the end ... See all stories on this topic » Fourth Estate Newspaper

'Five-Year Engagement' is several years too long The Seattle Times Directed by Nicholas Stoller, from a screenplay by Segel and Stoller. 124 minutes. Rated R for sexual content and language throughout. Several theaters. No comments have been posted to this article. Nicholas Stoller's romantic comedy "The Five-Year ... See all stories on this topic »

Rutgers Boiler Engineer Frank Lisi Directs, Produces, Acts in Films News from Rutgers He began writing the screenplay for his first film, A Sicilian Tale, in 2005 while working as an extra on the set of the HBO drama series, The Sopranos. Lisi didn't begin acting and filmmaking until well into adulthood, but he's been fascinated by the ... See all stories on this topic »

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Debut screenplay made big impression | News-Gazette.com CHAMPAIGN — When Kelechi Ezie took her short "The Truth About Beauty and Blogs" to the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, she never imagined who ... m.news-gazette.com/.../debut-screenplay-made-big-impression...