Script Writer News--4.24.12

Script is the new hero in Bollywood Times of India Armed with a quirky script on the life of a sperm donor - and with the trepidation of a first-time scriptwriter - she was thinking to herself "nice try, but..." when Sircar called her back and said he would like to see the film's first draft. See all stories on this topic »

'Boardwalk Empire' creator saw it all in hospital guard job New York Daily News The Marine Park native has four writing Emmys for "The Sopranos." He's the creator, head writer and executive producer of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," which has won eight Emmys. He wrote the script for Martin Scorsese's "Wolf of Wall Street," starring ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Repo Man's Alex Cox: Move Sites Overseas To Kill Copyright Complaints TorrentFreak "I don't believe Mr. Cox is authorized to post the script on his personal website either." "Universal are both right and wrong. Right because in many cases writers do cede all their rights to a purchaser, and lose them. Wrong because REPO MAN wasn'ta ... See all stories on this topic » TorrentFreak

Charlie Kaufman set to script 'Chaos Walking' adaptation for Lionsgate HitFix (blog) Could the 'Being John Malkovich' writer be part of the next 'Hunger Games' style hit? By Drew McWeeny Monday, Apr 23, 2012 11:45 PM Charlie Kaufman's going to help bring the 'Chaos Walking' series to the screen. Sign up to get the latest updates ... See all stories on this topic » HitFix (blog)

Salim saab gave me his Filmfare award: Shoojit Times of India He introduced himself as the writer of "Sholay" and called me and my scriptwriter, Juhi Chaturvedi, over to his residence for tea. At his residence, he handed over a Filmfare trophy to us saying that he has loved our work so much that he wanted to gift ... See all stories on this topic »

DVD review: Midnight in Paris The Bay of Plenty Times Part love story, part fantasy, Midnight in Paris tells the story of Gil (Owen Wilson), a successful Hollywood scriptwriter who yearns for yester- year. In Gil's mind, life in the 1920s was a beautiful and creative time and an era he would have thrived ... See all stories on this topic »

'Booster Gold' Pilot By 'Fringe' Writer Submitted To SyFy Science Fiction According to Comic Book Movie, 'Fringe' writer Andrew Kreisberg has submitted the first draft of his script for the pilot of a "Fringe-esque" series based on the DC Comics character Booster Gold to SyFy. Hmmm… 'Fringe' writer writing 'Fringe'-esque ... See all stories on this topic » Science Fiction

Exclusive: See Three-Minute Action Film Already Gone Wired News Rather than shopping a completed script to possibly interested parties, director Ross Ching and writer Bill Balas took a shortcut: They simply made a three-minute version of their action movie. Their violent short is called Already Gone , and you can ... See all stories on this topic »

The Amazing Spider-Man Got A Little Writing From Director Paul Feig Comic Book Movie Now the script has been read and it is amazing. Having such great writers as Steve Kloves( Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and Alvin Sargent ( Spider-Man 2)this is NOT something to worry about. Paul Feig had about as good a summer as you can get ... See all stories on this topic » Comic Book Movie

Tribeca 2012 Interview: "Resolution" Filmmakers Talk Their Ambitious, Funny ... Complex.com (blog) A lot of the times, I was writing the script around the amount of money I had in my checking account, at least initially I was. So it became a question of, How do I make this as scary as possible, as funny as possible, and as compelling as possible ... See all stories on this topic »

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Script format: how and WHY (introduction) « The Jobbing Scriptwriter He wasn't measuring margins or complaining because the writer used the wrong separator on the slugline; but at a glance he (and I) could tell the script would ... phillbarron.wordpress.com/.../script-format-how-and-why-intr...