Thursday, April 5, 2012

Script Writer News--4.4.12

 
Budding script writer from Blackburn scoops prize
Lancashire Telegraph
"I now want to study an English degree at University Centre at Blackburn College in hopes of becoming a script writer one day." The competition is organised by Burgess Hill School for Girls and attracted a record number entries this year, ...
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Polone: Who Really Determines the Fates of Aspiring Screenwriters?
Vulture
And those dreamers might be distressed to know just how much of their fate — when it comes to getting a staff writing gig on a TV show, a feature-film assignment, or the possible sale of their spec script — is in the hands of inexperienced low-level ...
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Third Writer to Tackle Robocop Remake; Joel Kinnaman Wants R Rating
Reelz
Variety reports that Sony has brought in writer James Vanderbilt to do a "polish" on the script. Sony is very high on Vanderbilt after his work on The Amazing Spider-Man and reportedly outbid other studios for Vanderbilt's "Die Hard meets Air Force ...
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Introducing our 'Man from UNCLE' contest: Here's your chance to win some ...
New York Daily News (blog)
Writers of TV novelizations faced a tougher assignment. They weren't following the blueprint of a script (exceptions included early "Star Trek" adaptations). These writers had to come up with original plots peopled with the heroes of the series while ...
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Broadway Las Vegas debut soars with 'Color Purple'
Las Vegas Review - Journal
Scriptwriter Marsha Norman gives the sometimes intense plot an often light-hearted, outline feel. She reinterprets the material so that it fits snugly into the musical comedy/drama format. I'd hate for anyone to go away from this show thinking this is ...
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Alan Moore's Final 'Supreme': Jumping-On Point for New Readers? [Preview]
ComicsAlliance
Also the writer of such books as Watchmen and From Hell, Moore's final Supreme script sat on the proverbial shelf since the last issue went on sale in 1998, and will be drawn by Savage Dragon creator and Image co-founder Erik Larsen with Cory Hamscher.
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Mira Schor Reclaims Voice, Speech and Writing For Painting
Huffington Post
Most importantly for painting and painters, this chain of reading and writing extends back to the origins of the written script--origins to be found in the calligraph and the ideogram, and before them the glyph, and before that the pictograph, ...
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Interview with Gabriel Babsi - scriptwriter - YouTube
Gabriel Babsi is an Italian, Paris-based, scriptwriter in the running for the "Much More than a ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1BLihKJuFE

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