Screenwriter News--4.16.12

Mel Gibson, Screenwriter Spar Over Maccabees Movie The Jewish Week Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas said in a letter to Mel Gibson that the actor and filmmaker "hates Jews." Ezsterhas sent the letter following Warner Bros.' rejection of his screenplay for Gibson's movie about Judah Maccabee. The letter, published on The ... See all stories on this topic »

Movie Angels Want to Boot Screenwriter Courthouse News Service By MARLENE KENNEDY SCHENECTADY, NY (CN) - Albany-area business executives claim a screenwriter-director has delayed a movie, and asked a state judge to confirm their vote removing the man from the board of the LLC that's trying to make the murder ... See all stories on this topic »

Gibson a 'Jew-hater': screenwriter - omg! San Francisco Luxury News A Hollywood screenwriter has accused Mel Gibson of "hating Jews" and says the filmmaker used him to overcome his tarnished reputation as an anti-Semite. Joe Eszterhas, who is known for his work on Basic Instinct and Showgirls, sent a furious nine-page ... See all stories on this topic »

[Movies] Screenwriter Talks Mummy Reboot 411mania.com Jon Spaihts recently spoke with Shock Till You Drop about his new job as screenwriter for the reboot of The Mummy. Check out the highlights: On being able to do a horror film: "I'm really excited to write something scary." On whether he's a bigger fan ... See all stories on this topic »

Mel Gibson 'Hates Jews,' and Other Revelations News in Film The bizarre development was only exacerbated by the fact that screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) was penning the script and it would be a bloody Braveheart-esque struggle for freedom. In 166 BC, Maccabee led a revolt against Greek ... See all stories on this topic » News in Film

Script, Camera, Action The Hindu IIT-Madras is back with 'Imaging Cinema: A course on screenwriting and film direction', to be conducted between June 1 and 10. This year, the sessions on screenwriting will be handled by screenwriter Atul Tiwari, K. Hariharan, director of the LV Prasad ... See all stories on this topic »

The great Prometheus certificate debate Irish Times (blog) Tuesday saw Screenwriter touching down in London for a special screening of new footage from Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Might Shelley have been speaking of Scott when he wrote "Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits/ But One, who throng those ... See all stories on this topic »

Special Feature: The case of Joe Eszterhas vs. Mel Gibson Cine-Vue It starred Mel Gibson in a role madder than Mad Max or Martin Riggs, and was scripted by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, which exposed anti-Semitism (like Music Box [1989]), was full of sleazy misogyny (like Basic Instinct [1992]) and might well hinge on a ... See all stories on this topic » Cine-Vue

'Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes' At The Oakland Museum of ... Huffington Post Dan Clowes is a comic book artist, a screenwriter, and a man with a lot of empathy for disgruntled Americans. He is the author of "Ghost World," "Mister Wonderful," "The Death-Ray" and the "Eightball" comic series, among others, and is reportedly ... See all stories on this topic »