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Feb 29th 2012, 20:21

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Starring Tom Cruise
Directed by Doug Liman
Filming will start in April 2012!

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Google Alert - screenwriter

2012-02-29T08:12:00.000-08:00

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43 new results for screenwriter

Screenwriter, film producer Christoph Silber to speak at UAH
The Huntsville Times - al.com
By Sarah Cure, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- New York-based screenwriter and film producer Christoph Silber will deliver a lecture at the University of Alabama in Huntsville March 6 at 11:10 am in the Frank Franz Hall multipurpose room No ...
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The Huntsville Times - al.com

Screenwriting workshop at Brock
Brock Press
Assistant Professor Julian Hoxter teaches screenwriting and film production in the Department of Cinema Studies at the University of San Francisco. The students of Brock University were privileged to have him visit and teach a condensed screenwriters ...
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Ashton Kutcher brought date to Oscars party: report
New York Post
The annual bash was co-hosted last year by Demi Moore and presumably would have been again this year had the actress not checked into rehab, A source tells Us Weekly that Kutcher brought Scafaria, the screenwriter behind "Nick and Nora's Infinite ...
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New York Post

Dancing dream
MiamiHerald.com
BY CHRISTINE DOLEN Before screenwriter-playwright Lee Hall got the idea that led to an inspiring low-budget movie titled Billy Elliot, boys who dreamed of a life in ballet had more to worry about than mastering their art.
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'A tell-all on Bollywood would be lethal'
Hindustan Times
Renowned journalist, screenwriter and director, Khalid Mohamed's collection of short stories, Two Mothers and Other Stories, was launched by actor Anil Kapoor in the capital recently. While the stories are tagged as 'bravely personal', Mohammed was ...
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Hindustan Times

Angelina Jolie's Leg: Oscar-Winning Poser Didn't Want to Mock Angie—or Get ...
E! Online
Sure, Jim Rash is an Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Descendants. Sure, he's never been anything less than scene-stealingly hilarious on Community. But he'll also probably never escape what's bound to be his lifelong legacy (at least where Google is ...
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At Oscars, Brooklyn Decker's nuts for write stuff
New York Daily News
s Oscar after-party, the blond beauty, who has branched out into acting, told us it was screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin. Decker, who wasn't accompanied by tennis-playing hubby Andy Roddick the night of the Academy Awards (we overheard her tell a ...
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New York Daily News

New on DVD: 'Hugo' a magical step into movies' silent era
Los Angeles Times
Ben Kingsley gives a heartbreaking performance as the toy maker, whose surprising connection to the early days of cinema gives Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan the chance to re-create the magic of the silent era and to honor how collaboration and ...
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Los Angeles Times

Ashton Kutcher Takes Date Lorene Scarfaria to Madonna's Oscar Party
The Daily Blabber from iVillage
After years of taking his soon-to-be ex wife Demi Moore as his Oscar night date, Ashton Kutcher popped up on Hollywood's big night with another woman on his arm: screenwriter Lorene Scarfaria. It isn't the first time the Two and a Half Men star, 34, ...
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Golden Age Oscars, including 'Citizen Kane' Oscar, go for $3 million in auction
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Among the statuettes sold were the Oscar won by screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz for co-writing the script to the 1941 classic Citizen Kane with the film's star and director, Orson Welles. Beverly Hills auctioneer Nate D. Sanders sold the awards, ...
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Oscars Auction Pulls In $3 Million
Contactmusic.com
A haul of 15 Oscars, including a statuette handed to Citizen Kane's screenwriter, has pulled in more than $3 million (£1.8 million) at auction. The collection of gold trophies, which also included an Oscar for Wuthering Heights, went under the hammer ...
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Contactmusic.com

'Mr Selfridge' drama confirmed by ITV1
Digital Spy UK
Mr Selfridge, based on the book Shopping, Seduction And Mr Selfridge, is being penned by Pride and Prejudice screenwriter Andrew Davies. The ten-part series, which was first rumoured last year, is set in London in 1909 and focuses on the life of ...
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Catweazle creator Richard Carpenter dies
Broadcast
Richard "Kip" Carpenter, the Bafta-award winnning television screenwriter behind Catweazle and Robin of Sherwood, has died aged 78. Broadcast provides a range of advertising opportunities both in print and online. By advertising with us, ...
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Triple J's Nick Cave tribute - Album of the Week
ABC Online (blog)
Nick Cave is one of Australia's most prolific and inspiring songwriters (as well as being a singer / composer / author / screenwriter / etc), so it's entirely fitting that the radio network that dedicates itself to playing Australian music should ...
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[Movies] Kristen Wiig Planning to Star in Action Comedy
411mania.com
Kristen Wiig is planning to star in a untitled action comedy from screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon from The Descendants. No plot details are known, but the idea likely sparked after the writers won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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BWW Reviews: Spotlighter's AGNES OF GOD - Complex and Marvelous
Broadway World
The title of American screenwriter and playwright John Pielmeir's Agnes of God is actually a pun on the Latin phrase, "Agnus Dei" or "Lamb of God"...so sayeth Wikipedia. It's a good pun, and quite appropriate as actor Julie Milillo's Sister Agnes is as ...
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Sony's Dracula period tale goes into development
PanARMENIAN.Net
Sony Pictures is currently developing a period film about the origin of legendary Vlad the Impaler after acquiring a pitch from "Mirror Mirror" screenwriter Jason Keller. It was said that Sony has signed six figures against seven figures deal with ...
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PanARMENIAN.Net

Ashton Kutcher takes Demi Moore lookalike to the Oscars
Daily Mail
Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria looks similar to Demi Moore US website Radar has claimed Ashton and Lorene partied in Europe recently, with The Butterfly Effect star actually tweeting a picture from Italy last month, but typically his spokesperson insists ...
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Daily Mail

Ashton Kutcher Gets 'Affectionate' With Demi Moore Look-Alike While Demi's In ...
Hollywood Life
Us Weekly reports that Ashton, 34, spent Oscar Sunday with 33-year-old Lorene Scafaria – a screenwriter who happens to bear a resemblance to Demi Moore, who checked herself into rehab earlier this month. "They were affectionate," one eyewitness tells ...
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Behind the Scenes at Seattle Rep's Upcoming 'Red'
CultureMob (blog)
Red is by John Logan, who you might know better as the screenwriter of the movies Gladiator and The Aviator. This two man play sounds plainer on paper than it's likely to be on stage: a famous abstract painter, Mark Rothko, spars with his assistant, ...
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CultureMob (blog)

Trio of 1939 movie makers combine to create 'Gone with the Wind'
Examiner.com
Miraculously, legendary producer David O. Selznick, played by Stef Tovar, famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and Wizard of Oz directory Victor Fleming come together and complete the screen play for what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time ...
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Alan Ball Will Step Down as Show Runner of HBO's "True Blood"
Playbill.com
By Michael Gioia HBO has announced that playwright, producer and screenwriter Alan Ball will not be the show runner of the hit vampire series "True Blood" for its possible sixth season. "When we extended our multi-year overall deal with Alan Ball in ...
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Guy Pearce's Prometheus Character Confirmed in Viral Video
Reelz
However, a viral video for Prometheus puts Pearce in action as Weyland giving a 2023 TEDTalk, as envisioned by Scott and Prometheus screenwriter Damon Lindelof and directed by Scott's son, Luke Scott. While viral videos aren't exactly a new form of ...
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Reelz

Octavia Spencer talks about Diablo Cody film: 'She does not disappoint'
OnTheRedCarpet.com
Octavia Spencer, who recently won her first Oscar for her supporting role in "The Help," is already looking ahead to her next film, which marks Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody's directorial debut. The comedy movie, which is still ...
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OnTheRedCarpet.com

Angelina Jolie's leg has taken on a life of its own
Los Angeles Times
"Community" actor and "The Descendants" screenwriter Rash, one of those to whom Jolie presented the Oscar, who similarly struck the post heard 'round the world while holding his shiny new statuette. Rash on Tuesday revealed to E! News the impetus ...
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Ashton Brings Gal Pal to Oscars Bash
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
This year, after he and Moore, 49, announced their split in November, it was Lorene Scafaria, the screenwriter with whom he toured Italy around Christmastime. Kutcher, 34, took 33-year-old Scafaria (Adam Brody's ex-girlfriend) to Madonna and Guy ...
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Actress Angelina Jolie's leg an Oscars Twitter hit: Who gives a slit?
newjerseynewsroom.com
Not to be outdone, the winning screenwriters struck the same pose after receiving Oscars from Jolie for their work on the movie "The Descendants." According to The Washington Post's Jen Chaney, screenwriter Jim Rash and his colleagues did not mean to ...
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Argonon's Leopard Films Scores Theatrical Distribution for Swan Lake 3D
World Screen
Argonon's drama division, Leopardrama, is developing the new feature-film project Mother of Sorrows with British screenwriter and director Terence Davies. The team is adapting Richard McCann's novel Mother of Sorrows for theatrical release.
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Daniel Radcliffe's The Woman in Black sets British horror record
The Guardian
Written by British screenwriter Jane Goldman and based on Susan Hill's novel about a widower who travels to a remote mansion said to be haunted by spirits in Edwardian England, The Woman in Black has received mostly positive reviews.
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The Guardian

Jaleel White: Dancing with the Stars Season 14
TVGrapevine.com
He has also become an emerging screenwriter. While attending UCLA's School of Film and Television, Jaleel occupied a dual role as star and producer of the UPN series Grown-Ups. Upon graduating from UCLA, he worked as a WGA writer for such notable ...
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TVGrapevine.com

'The Help' Producer Brunson Green on His Oscar Week
Wall Street Journal (blog)
It was a really fun group including "Margin Call" producer Neal Dodson, director JC Chandor and "The Descendants" screenwriter Nat Faxon. Then "Who Killed the Electric Car" director, Chris Paine, invited me to the Global Green event in Hollywood.
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Ashton Kutcher Brings New Lady Friend Lorene Scafaria to Post-Oscar Bash!?
Hollywire
According to Us Weekly, the 34-year-old actor took screenwriter Scafaria, 33, as his plus one to Madonna and Guy Oseary's annual Oscars afterparty on Sunday evening. This is certainly not the first time the couple has been spotted out together.
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World Book Day event is out of this World!
Liverpool City Council
Attending the event will be two special guests: award-winning screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce and the science fiction specialist Andy Sawyer, who both collaborated on the book. Cabinet member for culture and tourism, Councillor Wendy Simon said: ...
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Liverpool City Council

Blu-ray Review: Leonardo DiCaprio Shines in Clint Eastwood's 'J. Edgar'
HollywoodChicago.com
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Oscar-winner for "Milk") flips a bit too frequently between various points of Hoover's life, some of which turn out to be fictionalized by the man's own fabrications. Hoover thought of himself as a gun-toting law ...
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Brian Kirk in Talks to Direct 'The Osterman Weekend'
/FILM (blog)
But he hated the script (so did the screenwriter, supposedly) and wanted to rewrite it. After the producers forbade that, Peckinpah made the movie but delivered a cut that test audiences and the producers detested. He was fired, the movie was re-cut ...
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Three men linked to Liverpool murder in The Killing of Julia Wallace by West ...
Liverpool Echo
And his labours continue: "I'm now working on a script for TV with screenwriter Paul Williams. It's in the early stages but there has already been interest shown in it." The intriguing tale of 'The Man from The Pru' – the studious, chess-playing ...
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Angelina Jolie's Leg Takes Over the Internet
Extra TV
Angie even presented an award with her leg extended in the same pose, and "The Descendants" screenwriter Jim Rash got on stage and took the same stance -- jutting out his leg and striking the "Angelina pose." angelina - brad . jpg.
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Extra TV

Peter Weyland 'Prometheus' TED Talk: Guy Pearce Stars In Viral Clip For Ridley ...
Huffington Post
Via screenwriter Damon Lindelof, here's Peter Weyland's "Prometheus" TED Talk, sent to you from 2023. In the clip -- conceived by Scott and Lindelof and directed by Luke Scott, Ridley's son -- Pearce stars as Weyland and gives an assembled horde of ...
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Angelina Jolie's Leg Deserved to Be Mocked By Jim Rash (VIDEO)
The Stir
It was a somber thing of beauty that didn't deserve to be tarnished by the horrible screenwriter Jim Rash, who dared to mock the mighty Angelina afterward. At least, that's how the poor guy has apparently been made to feel, because if you can believe ...
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Tonight: Tennis coach Marcus Cootsona at Kepler's
The Almanac Online
Mr. Cootsona has taught tennis for 29 years, and has been a store owner, playwright, screenwriter, and retail consultant. He'll be introduced by Stanford coach Dick Gould. Admission for the evening requires the purchase of Mr. Cootsona's book or a $10 ...
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Robert Redford, Diane Keaton Spread Holiday Cheer In The Most Wonderful Time
Cinema Blend
The screenwriter actually compares the project to Amelie, with characters clinging to their pasts, which prevents them from living in the proper present. Truthfully, I'd give Most Wonderful Time a shot just to see if Redford can bring a little Ordinary ...
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Cinema Blend

Ashton Kutcher Takes His New Woman To Oscars Party Star partied with Lorene ...
Entertainmentwise
Some reports have suggested that screenwriter Lorene Scafaria bares some resemblance to Demi Moore, who was rushed to hospital earlier this year after struggling to deal with the stress that has come since her split from Ashton.
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Entertainmentwise

The Overlooked: Jim Carrey
Brunswickan
A bright, young screenwriter named Peter Appleton (Carrey) is off to a successful start in his career. During his third film, he's investigated for having communist ties during his college years for a meeting he attended. Depressed from the effects of ...
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Google Alert - screenplay

2012-02-29T07:53:00.001-08:00

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Kristen Wiig Attached To Star In New Action Comedy From The Writers Of The ...
Cinema Blend
As though it weren't enough that the duo took home Oscar gold on Sunday when they won Best Adapted Screenplay for their work on Alexander Payne's The Descendants, now they have roped in one of this year's other nominees to star in their next project.
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Cinema Blend

The Descendants To Begin Its Blu-Ray Journey In March
Cinema Blend
The Descendants failed to clean up at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, only managing to pull a win in one of its five nominated categories, the Best Adapted Screenplay award, which went to Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash.
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Cinema Blend

'Descendants' Oscar Winner to Star in Fox Comedy Pilot
Hollywood Reporter
The Descendants scribe, who on Sunday won an Academy Award for his adapted screenplay, has been tapped to star in the Fox comedy pilot Ned Fox is My Manny, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The project revolves around Abby Elliott's Kate, ...
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Hollywood Reporter

'Descendants' scribes sell pitch to Paintbrush
Variety
By Jeff Sneider 'The Descendants' scribes Jim Rash & Nat Faxon won the Oscar for adapted screenplay on Sunday. Fresh off their Oscar win for "The Descendants," scribes Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have sold to Indian Paintbrush an original action-comedy ...
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Variety

Actress Olivia Wilde ponders screenplay about failed marriage
The Province
Olivia is even considering turning her experiences into a screenplay. She added in an interview with the new issue of Britain's GQ magazine: "I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny and I'd like to write a movie about it.
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Sleepless In Seattle writer David S. Ward to pen Rajiv Gandhi story
India Today
Oscar-winning Hollywood writer-filmmaker David S. Ward will pen the screenplay of Bhavna Talwar's ambitious biopic on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The yet-untitled film is scheduled to go on the floors around December this year.
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India Today

Kristen Wiig to star in action-comedy from writers of 'The Descendants'
HitFix
The comedian was nominated for Best Original Screenplay for "Bridesmaids" on Sunday along with her co-writer Annie Mumolo. Fresh off his killer Angelina Jolie impression at the Academy Awards on Sunday (oh, and that whole "winning an Oscar" thing), ...
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HitFix

Touching and very real
Oman Tribune
Directed by Alexander Payne, The Descendants created a lot of Oscar hype and was nominated for five awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a leading role (George Clooney), Best Adapted Screenplay and Film Editing.
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Sleepless In Seattle writer to pen Rajiv Gandhi bio-pic
IndiaFM
By Subhash K. Jha ,Feb 29, 2012 - 11:33 hrs IST Ashutosh Gowariker had signed one of America's most distinguished and popular screenplay writers and directors David S. Ward to write the now-shelved bio-pic on Gautam Buddha. Ward has now been roped in ...
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Kristen Wiig Attached to Star in Action-Comedy by THE DESCENDANTS Writers Nat ...
Collider.com
by Brendan Bettinger Posted:February 28th, 2012 at 7:31 pm Fresh off their Oscar win for The Descendants in the Best Adapted Screenplay category, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have sold an original action-comedy pitch to Indian Paintbrush.
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Collider.com

Descendants, Tintin coming to DVD
Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog)
Winner of best adapted screenplay, the movie is coming out on DVD March 13. The Blu-ray will include deleted scenes with introductions by director Alexander Payne, three music videos, featurettes called "Everybody Loves George," "Working With Alexander ...
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George Clooney's "The Descendants" announces its DVD release
Hollywoodnews.com
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Fresh off of its Academy Award win for Best Adapted Screenplay, "The Descendants" announces its upcoming DVD release, which will take place on Tuesday, March 13. From director Alexander Payne, creator of the ...
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Hollywoodnews.com

5 career lessons from the Oscars
CANOE
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won an Oscar for best adapted-screenplay of "The Descendants." As noted in my post, "'Descendants' Book Author Recalls Working With Clooney," the movie closely tracks the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings.
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CANOE

Oscar winning writer for Rajeev Gandhi movie!
Daily Bhaskar
According to sources, Hollywood screenplay writer David S Ward has been finalised for the bio-pic on Rajeev Gandhi. Director Ashutosh Gowariker had earlier signed on David Ward to write the screenplay for his movie on Buddha, which is now shelved.
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Oscars statuettes from '30s, '40s auctioned in LA
The Seattle Times
Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay Oscar given to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane," have been sold at a Los Angeles auction. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article.
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Kristen Wiig teams with 'The Descendants' writers for action comedy
Digital Spy
Faxon and Rash were awarded with the Oscar for 'Best Adapted Screenplay' for The Descendants at last Sunday's Academy Awards. Wiig was also nominated in the 'Best Original Screenplay' category alongside her Bridesmaids writing partner Annie Mumolo.
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David Ward to screenwrite Rajiv Gandhi biopic
Indiantelevision.com
MUMBAI: Bhavna Talwar, known for her film Dharm and now under-production Happi, has roped in screenplay writer and director David S Ward to write the script of her film based on the life of Rajiv Gandhi. The film is said to delve into the life of our ...
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Kristen Wiig Plans Action Comedy
ComingSoon.net
No plot details are currently available outside of the genre, but interest in the project was no doubt bolstered by last Sunday's Academy Award win for the screenwriting team for Best Adapted Screenplay. Oddly enough, Wiig herself was nominated for ...
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ComingSoon.net

Kristen Wiig On For An Action Comedy
Empire Online
Everyone is staying quiet about the specific details right now, but Variety revealed that lots of studios were interested in snagging the screenplay. And who can blame them, with a professional Angelina Jolie leg impersonator among the writing talent?
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Empire Online

15 Oscars statuettes from 1930s and 1940s, including 'Citizen Kane' award ...
Washington Post
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay Oscar given to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane," have been sold at a Los Angeles auction. Auction house Nate D. Sanders said Tuesday that the ...
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Oscars go under the hammer for $3 million
Bangkok Post
Highlights of the collection include a Best Screenplay Academy Award for the iconic movie "Citizen Kane", given to Herman Mankiewicz in 1941. The gold-plated prizes, sold despite an official protest by Oscars organizers, included a Best Screenplay ...
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Bangkok Post

Oscar Statues -- Including for 'Citizen Kane' -- Auctioned for $3M
Reuters
The highest bid went to the Academy Award for writer Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay for "Citizen Kane," which sold for $588455. Christie's previously sold the Academy Award in 1999 for $244500. In December 2011, Nate D. Sanders sold Orson ...
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Judd Apatow-Produced 'The Five-Year Engagement' With Jason Segel & Emily Blunt ...
Indie Wire (blog)
While his own films have yet to cross over the awards threshold, Oscar nominations for last year's "Bridesmaids" in the Original Screenplay and Supporting Actress categories signify a new respectability for the comedies of Judd Apatow, the man who more ...
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The Secret World of Arrietty: girls can have adventures too
RVANews
by Ross Catrow Well, Mellisa McCarthy didn't win the Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar for her work in Bridesmaids, and the film didn't win Best Original Screenplay either. Color me superbummed. Finally an uproariously funny movie written by and ...
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RVANews

Angelina's right leg takes on life of its own
WLBT-TV
(Source: Michael Yada/AMPAS) Jim Rash, right, adopts Angelina Jolie's pose after accepting the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants. Also pictured are Nat Faxon and Alexander Payne. (Source: Michael Yada/AMPAS) Angelina Jolie and Glenn ...
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Why don't comedies win Oscars?
Chortle
Woody Allen also won a Best Original Screenplay award for Midnight in Paris. Much was made of the fact that The Artist was the first silent film to win Best Picture since Wings at the very first Oscars, that it was the first French film ever to win ...
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Chortle

Midnight In Paris – Casts A Weak Spell
Movies I Didn't Get
This brings us to the most troubling part of the film: the third act, in which everything really falls apart and the screenplay begins to waste time saying in explicit dialogue what it was already showing in its situations. "I'm having an insight," Gil ...
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"Citizen Kane" Oscar, Others Fetch $3 Million at Auction
NBC Chicago
Chief among the fifteen just-sold Academy Awards statuettes: Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Original Screenplay Oscar, which he shared with director Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane. It sold for $588455. The other best known of the prizes sold at auction ...
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Academy Awards For Sale And Other Post-Oscar Talk - Hammond
Deadline.com
Getting top dollar was Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane going for $588455 (about $300000 less than what Orson Welles scripting statue went for in December), How Green Was My Valley's Best Picture Oscar went for $274520 while ...
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Kristen Wiig lands new comedy role
Winnipeg Free Press
Kristen was nominated for 'Best Original Screenplay' for writing 'Bridesmaids' alongside Annie Mumolo, and despite losing out to Woody Allen's 'Midnight In Paris', the comedy star admitted she was delighted to have been noticed.
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Jolie's right leg is now a star
Toronto Sun
Actress Angelina Jolie walks on stage as she presents the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 26, 2012. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (UNITED STATES) (OSCARS-SHOW) Actress Angelina Jolie arrives to ...
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Oscar Trash Becomes Treasure; Auction Nets $3 Million
TheImproper.com
The sale included Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for Orsen Well's "Citizen Kane." It fetched $588455. The Academy Award has changed hands several times over the years. Christie's sold the award in 1999 for $244500.
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TheImproper.com

The Oscars Go To…
Movie-Moron
Nominated for 5 awards, The Descendants came away with the Best Adapted Screenplay (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash). Woody Allen won his 4th Oscar (3rd for Best Original Screenplay) for his screenplay for Midnight in Paris.
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Movie-Moron

Jonah Hill Working on 21 Jump Street 2
Crave Online
The film's star, co-writer and recent Oscar nominee Jonah Hill confirmed to E! (via Coming Soon) that "we got [the greenlight] by the studio to start writing the sequel," and that he's working on that screenplay "right now." The new film stars Hill and ...
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The Straits, Thursday, March 1
Sydney Morning Herald
With a screenplay by Louis Nowra, direction by Rachel Ward and some of the finest actors in the country, this drug-lord drama set in the Torres Strait Islands was destined for brilliance. Violent but never gratuitous, thoughtful without pathos, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald

Full Sail University is Proud to Announce 41 Graduates Worked on 10 Oscar ...
Broadcast Newsroom
... Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Writing (Original Screenplay), Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Music (Original Score), Musical (Original Song), Visual Effects and Art Direction.
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'21 Jump Street' Sequel Is Underway With Script Being Written
AceShowbiz
Lead actor Jonah Hill confirms that the yet-to-be-released comedy movie will have a follow-up since Columbia Pictures has given a greenlight and the screenplay is already in the works. "21 Jump Street" wouldn't arrive in the US theaters until March 16, ...
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AceShowbiz

Dan Aykroyd Says Bill Murray Officially Out of 'Ghostbusters 3'
Screen Rant
Recently, there were rumors about Murray's resistance to a threequel – rumors that involved the screenplay and a shredder, and which Dan Aykroyd addressed when word of Murray's resistance spread throughout the Interwebs. Now, Aykroyd is confirming that ...
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Screen Rant

Oscars statuettes from '30s, '40s auctioned in LA
WBRC
AP Entertainment News Video More>> AP Showbiz Minute: Whitney Houston funeral LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay Oscar given to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane," have been ...
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"The Descendants" Coming to Blu-ray and DVD March 13th
modOration (blog)
They were nominated for five Academy Awards and took home the win for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Descendants is based on the best-selling novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings and is set in the gorgeous island of Hawaii. THE DESCENDANTS is a sometimes humorous ...
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Barry Sonnenfeld's 'Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens' Graphic Novel Set for Summer Launch
Hollywood Reporter
Morrison is writing both the graphic novel and the film screenplay for Sonnenfeld to direct while artwork for Dinosaurs Vs. Aliens is being done by Liquid Comics artist Mukesh Singh, who previously worked with Morrison on the 18 Days hardcover book.
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Angelina Jolie's Leg Goes Viral
ABC News
Jolie worked every inch of her Altelier Versace dress with its thigh-high slit on stage to present Best Adapted Screenplay. She paused for several seconds in a pose to display her leg to the audience. "Angie's Right Leg" quickly became a Twitter trend.
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Angelina Jolie Oscar Leg, Albert Brooks Twitter Feud: It's the End of the ...
International Business Times
Jolie wore an extremely high-cut black Versace gown to the Oscars on Sunday, and assumed a bizarre posture when she took to the stage to present the Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay awards: extending her (already exposed) right leg ...
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The Grey refreshing take on survival-horror genre
The Cord
The film is based on the short story "Ghost Walker" by Ian MacKenzie Jeffers, who also co-wrote the screenplay, revealing a pattern that suggests most films in the 21st century are based on adaptations. The Grey director Joe Carnahan captures the ...
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2012-02-28T08:15:00.001-08:00

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Descendants screenwriters insist they weren't dissing Angelina Jolie's leg pose
Examiner.com
While it appeared that actress Angelina Jolie was mocked on stage by the screenwriters that she had just presented an Academy Award to on Feb. 26, 2012, writer Alexander Payne insists he wasn't dissing her. "She's supremely hot," The Descendants ...
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'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' Screenwriter Says the Film is "Ready to Ride ...
/FILM (blog)
Now the film's screenwriter, Tony Grisoni, says the film is potentially happening once more. Us survivors of 'Don Q' are a strange kind of dysfunctional family. Every year since we have rewritten the screenplay. And we've got quite good at it.
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Angelina Jolie 'steamed' when Oscar winner mocks her leg pose
Chicago Sun-Times
By bill zwecker Columnist/bzwecker@suntimes.com February 27, 2012 8:00PM STANCE PARTNER: Angelina Jolie strikes a pose tha was copied moments later by winning screenwriter Jim Rash. | Mark J. Terrill~AP 1987: Her constant clashes with director Oliver ...
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Alan Ball Stepping Down as Show Runner of HBO's 'True Blood'
New York Times (blog)
Alan Ball, the television producer and screenwriter who has helped imbue the supernatural drama "True Blood" with its sex-saturated bite, is preparing to say fangs for the memories to that hit HBO series. The cable network announced on Monday night ...
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Appetite for dystopia: Gary Ross creates a ruthless world in eagerly awaited ...
Film Journal
Ross has spent most of his career as a screenwriter, and he only rarely feels compelled to direct. "I heard the bell ring when I read The Hunger Games. I just really, really wanted to do it. Until I feel that with a movie, I can't really get behind it, ...
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Two Houston dads to premiere documentary on breast milk donation
Houston Chronicle (blog)
In late 2008 tragedy struck screenwriter and filmmaker Kevin West's family when his wife lost a baby very late in her term. She coped with the loss by donating her breast milk to sick and preterm babies whose mothers could not feed them through a donor ...
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David Hughes Tells 'Tales from Development Hell'
Crave Online
David Hughes knows this place well, as the screenwriter of such unproduced films as 250 GTO and TJ Hooker and the author of Tales from Development Hell, the updated version of which hits stores February 28. The book explores the difficult paths that ...
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You knew it was coming: Angelina Jolie's leg launches Twitter feed, online ...
Entertainment Weekly
It's not Oscar-winning Descendants screenwriter Jim Rash, but he was the prophet who ushered in the latest (and leggiest) meme of 2012. The Community star was the first to pay homage to fellow nominee Angelina Jolie, who took no small amount of delight ...
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Angelina Jolie - Oscars 2012: Angelina Jolie's Leg Gets Twitter Account
Contactmusic.com
The actress-turned-director made the initial "stance" as she presented the award for the Best Screenwriter, standing with her hand on hip and protruding her right leg outwards so that it slipped out from under her gown. The atmosphere in the Kodak ...
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Angelina Jolie's Leg Gets It's Own Twitter Account and Is Mocked at the Oscars
Gather Celebs News Channel
Angelina Jolie's leg certainly stole the show last night at the Oscars, but it got a little help from actor/screenwriter/comedian Jim Rash and a crazy new Twitter account. Up until last night, Rash was probably best known for his role as the ...
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Angelina Jolie's pose ''honored'' at Oscars
WTSP 10 News
Angelina Jolie strikes a pose, later emulated by The Descendants screenwriter Jim Rash (far right). (CBS) -- Angelina Jolie's leg-flashing was already the talk of the Oscars when she hit the stage in a black velvet Atelier Versace gown with a ...
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Filmmaker Talks Spirituality
Harvard Crimson
Whitney screened clips from four of the earliest documentaries in her long career as a screenwriter, producer, and director. She described her films as "a spiritual autobiography" that illuminates both her internal experience and her interest in ...
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Simulcast event - Liverpool
The Guardian
Frank Cottrell Boyce Screenwriter, novelist, and children's writer, Frank Boyce Cottrell is one of Liverpool's most compelling voices. He wrote dozens of episodes of Coronation Street and Brookside before turning to film. Since then, he's become the ...
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'Wanderlust' lacks cleverness
Quad City Times
Apatow, a producer, screenwriter and director of movies such as "Knocked Up," produced "Wanderlust." But this isn't as clever as other movies in which he has been involved, although it certainly contains a few laughs. It's an R-rated movie with a bunch ...
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The almanac
UPI.com
They include French essayist Michel de Montaigne in 1533; American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht in 1894; chemist and physicist Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, in 1901; movie director Vincente Minnelli in 1903; cartoonist Milton ...
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Woody Allen's return to form
Mayo News
Owen Wilson takes on the surrogate Woody role, Gil, as a disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter: dishevelled, plaid-shirt and khaki-trouser clad. Gil finds that the city has revived his dormant longing to be a serious novelist and desire to be ...
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Terry Gilliam's 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' Back in the Saddle
Get The Big Picture (blog)
Despite the films well-documented failures, however, the screenwriter says that the production for the film might be back in the loop. The movie is about a 21st century advertising executive who gets transported into the world of Don Quixote, ...
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Tech Writer Corroborates Bleak Hollywood View
mediabistro.com
By Richard Horgan on February 27, 2012 10:00 AM At the end of her chilling New York Times Op Ed, author and screenwriter Hilary De Vries wrote that she would be thinking of her departed residential neighbors while watching the Oscars Sunday night.
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Sony Plans Period Dracula Tale
ComingSoon.net
This version will arrive through screenwriter Jason Keller and producers Palak Patel and Joe Roth. Little is known about the specific take of Keller's pitch, but it is said to be a period tale, likely taking place around the time of the original text ...
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Descendants Writer Jim Rash: I Wasn't Mocking Angelina Jolie's Leg Pose
GossipCop
The Descendants screenwriter Jim Rash, who appeared to make fun of Angelina Jolie at the Academy Awards on Sunday, insisted afterwards that he was not mocking the actress. When he accepted his Oscar, Rash mimicked Jolie's stance.
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Sony buys 'Dracula' origin story pitch
Examiner.com
Deadline Hollywood reports that the studio just bought a pitch from screenwriter Jason Keller ("Machine Gun Preacher," "Mirror Mirror") for what's described as a period Dracula origin story. According to Deadline, Joe Roth and Palak Patel are set to ...
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10 Fun Facts About Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
About.com: Kids' Movies & TV
Screenwriter Cinco Paul told us, "She initially kind of demurred. She didn't want to put the focus on her too much. But, ultimately, we convinced her." Writers/producers Ken Durio and Cinco Paul researched Seuss books for ideas about the settings and ...
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Betrayal is one of Harold Pinter's subtlest and most honest plays
The List
There were many Harold Pinters: the gruff scourge of political hypocrisy; the resourceful screenwriter; the mesmerising actor, heroically playing Beckett when terminally ill; the not terribly good poet. Pinter the playwright, however, looms over them ...
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Angelina Jolie's leg steals Oscars show
WFMZ Allentown
Screenwriter and actor Jim Rash, part of the Oscar-winning writing team from "The Descendants," which picked up the best adapted screenplay award, couldn't help but mimic the leggy star's stance when it was his turn to take the stage.
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Dan Aykroyd says his movie days are over
Musicrooms.net
The 59-year-old actor-screenwriter has been eager to get cameras rolling on another sequel to his 1984 ghost busting comedy classic, but the project has repeatedly stalled because of co-star Bill Murray's busy schedule. Speaking to Seven magazine, ...
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Sofia Film Fest Preview Opens with Russian 'Stoker'
Novinite.com
For his film Brother (1997) Russian director, screenwriter and producer Balabanov received the Special Jury award at Cottbus. He was awarded with the best director award at Gijon film festival for Cargo 200 (2007) and in Istanbul the jury gave a ...
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Throw another Vampire Movie on the Pile: Sony Picks up Pitch for Dracula ...
Collider.com
Maybe it will be the untitled pitch screenwriter Jason Keller (Mirror Mirror) just sold to Sony. According to Deadline, the studio paid high six figures against seven for "a period origin story on the Dracula mythology." Thank goodness.
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Home > News > Jennifer Lopez > Jennifer Lopez News > Oscars 2012: Did Jennifer ...
Contactmusic.com
With Angelina Jolie already making a show of herself by revealing more than a little leg as she presented an award for Best Screenwriter, the internet was ripe for an evening of meme making, fake Twitter accounts and blogs, Jolie's leg suffering the ...
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A Japanese Director's Path to Revolution
New York Times
The Japanese director, screenwriter and activist Masao Adachi is one. Active both in Japan's avant-garde film scene of the 1960s and in the student-led protests against Tokyo's controversial security treaty with Washington, Mr. Adachi wrote screenplays ...
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With Obama Struggling in Hollywood, GOP Support on the Rise
Reuters
"There are certainly more conviction conservatives in Hollywood than conviction liberals," agrees screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd, one of the entertainment industry's most visible Republicans for years. Though he thinks the 60-40 ratio may be a bit high, ...
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ZOVA Books Releases Jessica Therrien's Debut YA Novel "Oppression"
PR Web (press release)
ZOVA Books has established themselves as a premier mid-sized publisher of genre and literary fiction, representing such bestselling novelists as "Dances With Wolves" author and Academy Award winning screenwriter, Michael Blake; Pulitzer Prize nominee ...
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A Promising New Wave Of Vampire Films Is Set To Invade Hollywood
Science Fiction
According to Deadline, Sony pictures just purchased a vampire story from screenwriter Jason Keller. The story is described as a period piece that will detail the origin of Dracula. According to Sony, the idea is to start a franchise of period films.
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Science Fiction

Sony Planning Dracula Tale
Mania
Deadline reports that Sony Pictures is the latest studio to try and tackle a story about the iconic vampire, with screenwriter Jason Keller (Machine Gun Preacher, upcoming The Tomb) being charged with fleshing out the story. Producers Palak Patel and ...
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Simulcast event - Brighton
The Guardian
Zahaan has a degree in Physics from Oxford and an MBA from Stanford where he was a Fulbright Scholar. www.youtube.com/user/spacelab/spacelab William Nicholson: Q & A with Jason Wood Screenwriter, playwright and novelist William Nicholson is known for ...
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Oscars 2012 fashion: Red carpet hits and misses
Washington Post
After she presented the award for best screenwriter, winner Jim Rash emulated it — and someone created a Twitter account for it. "It was just an impulse," he told The Post's Jen Chaney at the Governors Ball. "I was just standing there and I thought ...
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World Civilizations Film Series kicks off with murder mystery
Gateway
Screenwriter John Paxton choose to make it about racism by focusing on the senseless murder of Joseph Samuels by a group of demobilized World War II soldiers who were seen with the deceased at a bar on the night he was killed.
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The Artist wins top honours, another acting award for Streep
Livemint
The original screenplay award went to the 76-year-old Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris—about a Hollywood screenwriter who yearns for the days of glamorous 1920s Paris. The Academy member holdout has won three Oscars before, and true to his tradition ...
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Best Jolie-ing pics! Angelina Jolie's sassy right leg is the latest internet meme
Starcasm.net
All great things are imitated, and her sassy pose was later replicated by The Descendents screenwriter Jim Rash who led his screenwriting co-writers Alexander Payne, and Nat Faxon in the move. After that, a craze was born, with everyone either whipping ...
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Film critic to host book to movie panel discussion Tuesday
Shelby Star
Manning's guests for the discussion include Robert Whitlow, an author and screenwriter who has had four books adapted to the screen in North Carolina; Gary Wheeler, who has written, directed and produced several films including adaptations of Whitlow's ...
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Hugo (Blu-ray)
DVD Talk
His story (adapted by Aviator screenwriter John Logan from Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret) is the Dickensian tale of little Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield), left as an orphan in the care of his alcoholic uncle (Ray Winstone), ...
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Google Alert - screenplay

2012-02-28T07:53:00.001-08:00

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Oscars 2012: 'The Artist' sweeps 84th Academy Awards
Times of India
Original Screenplay: Oscar goes to Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris. Woody skips the Oscar. Jolie thanks Allen for accepting award on Academy's behalf Adapted Screenplay: Angelina Jolie presents Oscar for Adapted Screenplay to Alexander Payne, ...
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Hawaii-filmed "The Descendants" dramedy wins Oscar for best adapted screenplay
Hawaiimagazine.com (blog)
The Descendants, a dramedy filmed on Oahu and Kauai and packed with a cast of compelling Hawaii characters, picked up an Oscar statuette last night for best adapted screenplay. The screenplay is based on the best-selling novel by Hawaii writer Kaui ...
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Hamilton College grad wins Oscar for "The Descendants" screenplay
WKTV
Actor and screenwriter Nat Faxon, of the Class of 1997, won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants during the February 26 Academy Awards. The award, which he received with co-writers Alexander Payne and Jim Rash, is given to the ...
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Screenplay Written by Faculty, Produced by Students Wins 'Best of Fest'
High Point University (press release)
27, 2012 - The screenplay for "Connected," a film written and produced by High Point University faculty and students, is the 2012 "Best of Fest" Award winner in the Short Subject Category of the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts ...
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High Point University (press release)

Woody Allen watched hoops instead of Oscars
USA TODAY (blog)
By Reid Cherner, USA TODAY While his film "Midnight in Paris" won an Oscar for best original screenplay, Allen was at home. Allen, who never attends the Academy Awards, didn't even watch the show. "He was saying that the NBA All-Star Game was on at the ...
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Woody Allen Watched NBA All Star Game, Not Oscars
Forbes
Allen last won the Screenplay award in 1987 for "Hannah and her Sisters," although pretty much of all his screenplays should have Oscars, including "Match Point," "Bullets over Broadway," and "Vicki Cristina Barcelona." His next film, "Nero Fiddles," ...
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5 Career Lessons From The 2012 Academy Awards
Forbes
In accepting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay of "The Descendants," director Alexander Payne praised Kaui Hart Hemmings, who wrote the novel. Photo: KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom 4. Share the credit. Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won an ...
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Why Indian awards compare poorly with the Oscars
IBNLive.com
"Original screenplay and adapted screenplay gets judged in separate categories (in the Oscars)," she said. Filmfare for example, the 57th annual Filmfare Awards gave away the Best Screenplay to Akshat Verma for Delhi Belly. If you thought the Academy ...
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Oscars 2012: Alexander Payne Clears Up Confusion Over Descendants Script
Contactmusic.com
Last night, Alexander Payne won an Oscar for his work writing the adapted screenplay for The Descendants. The script was based on the book by Kaui Hart Hemmings and Payne told reporters backstage that he owed much to his fellow writers, Nat Faxon and ...
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'The Descendants' Announced for Blu-ray
High-Def Digest
The Academy Award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay will say aloha to Blu-ray in March. In an early announcement to retailers, 20th Century Fox will be releasing 'The Descendants' on Blu-ray on March 13. From director Alexander Payne creator of the ...
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Oscar Winners 2012: Woody Allen Wins for 'Midnight in Paris,' No-Show Once Again
International Business Times
By Ellen Killoran: Subscribe to Ellen's RSS feed Woody Allen won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Midnight in Paris" at the 2012 Academy Award ceremony Sunday night. While many were expecting the win, few believed Allen would show up to accept ...
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Hamilton alum wins Oscar for 'The Descendants'
Utica Observer Dispatch
AP Nat Faxon, left, Jim Rash, center, and Alexander Payne pose with their awards for best adapted screenplay for "The Descendants" during the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.
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'Reno 911' invades the Oscars
Washington Post (blog)
By Dan Zak The only transcendent part of watching the Oscars, for me, was realizing that two of the three winners for best adapted screenplay are former bit players on "Reno 911!," the "COPS"-inspired Comedy Central sketch show (I'ma fan).
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Angelina Jolie's Pose Has Legs On Twitter
Sky News
The star was handing over the Best Adapted Screenplay Award when she clearly re-adjusted her stance, bending a leg out to one side to reveal as much of the limb through the slit of her Versace gown as possible. She had struck a similar pose earlier on ...
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Ingmar Bergman vs. the OSCAR
Alt Film Guide (blog)
The Criterion Collection has posted (via dizzydentfilms) a May 12, 1960, letter in which Ingmar Bergman scolded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for nominating his 1957 drama Wild Strawberries for a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award ...
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Oscars to go under hammer despite protest
FRANCE 24
Highlights of the exquisite collection estimated to sell for more than $1 million include Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for Citizen Kane. AFP - A US auction house is selling a collection of Oscar statuettes valued at over $1 ...
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ScreenwritingU Announces New Deal with Million-Dollar Screenwriter
PR Web (press release)
ScreenwritingU has added to its award-winning online screenwriting classes the exclusive marketing and delivery of Soth's classes, including his Mini-Movie Method and intensive screenplay mentorship program. ScreenwritingU announces its collaboration ...
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Oscars 2012: George Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler is a trophy girlfriend ...
Daily Mail
By Emily Sheridan It was a nervous night for George Clooney as he went up for a Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. And despite losing out on the Best Actor accolade, Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler made sure he went home ...
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Daily Mail

Script plays villain between Anil, Priyadarshan
Hindustan Times
For Tezz apparently, Priyadarshan had no choice but to write out a full screenplay before shooting. "Priyan needed to shoot in various parts of England, including Glasgow on subway and railway stations where permission had to be taken from various ...
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Hindustan Times

Don't compare Indian awards with Oscars: Abhishek
India Today
Some lauded the ceremony for its transparent system of winner selection, while some celebrities like Mini Mathur are impressed with the right titles to the awards. "It's just so correct that an original screenplay n adapted screenplay gets judged in ...
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India Today

Dheeran scripts success story
Times of India
HAIBOWAL: A young writer from Haibowal, Dheeran Rattan, once again grabbed top honours at a recent movie award function when he won the best screenplay and dialogue in a??Jeene Mera Dil Luteyaa??. The 35-year-old has already made the city proud by ...
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This here's my leg: Angelina Jolie among Oscar best, worst
Los Angeles Times
Angelina Jolie, presenting awards for best original screenplay and best adapted screenplay, drew praise as well as condemnation for her right-leg-exposure stance at the Oscars 2012 ceremony. Tweeters who thought her too thin told her to "eat something" ...
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Mimicking Jolie's leggy pose
San Antonio Express
Winners for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "The Descendants," Alexander Payne (C), Nat Faxon (L) and Jim Rash accept their trophy onstage at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
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Rash denies mocking Jolie pose
13WHAM-TV
Screenwriter Jim Rash accepts the Best Accepted Screenplay Award for 'The Descendants onstage during the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter, Getty Images) ...
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Telling Tales From Development Hell
Television Without Pity
But were you also aware that an early draft of the screenplay for the film that would become Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull featured cameos by such characters as Sallah, Marion and Short Round? That's one of the many fun pieces of ...
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Angelina Jolie's right leg gets Twitter page
The Sun
The actress again showed off her thigh-high split in her black velvet Atelier Versace number while presenting the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The 36-year-old glided onto the stage and stood with her hand on her hip like a teapot with her leg ...
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The Sun

Jolie at the Oscars: The leg that roared
Philadelphia Inquirer
Funny guy Jim Rash, one of the recipients of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, struck a Joliesque pose onstage in his tux. Now, it has become an Internet meme - complete with a Twitter account: @AngiesRightLeg. As of 5 pm Monday, the account had drawn ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer

Oscars 2012: No Woody Allen, So No Woody Allen Acceptance Speech; He Would ...
Movies With Butter (blog)
Wood Allen won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay last night at the 84th Academy Awards for Midnight in Paris, but he didn't show up to accept that award. So, if you're looking for Woody Allen's acceptance speech, you're out of luck.
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Is there a "Brad Pitt Curse" for current, former flames?
Chicago Tribune
Current flame Angelina Jolie's bizarre leg-baring stance during the Oscar ceremony prompted Best Adapted Screenplay winner Jim Rash to ape her sexually provocative pose while accepting his award. It also inspired a Twitter feed @AngiesRightLeg that has ...
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Angelina Jolie's leg gets its own Twitter profile
Hindustan Times
The 36-year-old actor rocked the Oscars in a black velvet Atelier Versace dress, which featured an enormous slit on the The frock was a hit on the red carpet, but when she took to the stage to present Best Adapted Screenplay she struck a saucy pose ...
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Hindustan Times

15 Oscars to be awarded to winning bidders at auction
Auction Central News
The collection of 15 of the gold-plated prizes includes one for the Best Screenplay Academy Award for iconic movie Citizen Kane, given to Herman Mankiewicz in 1941. The 1933 Best Picture Oscar for Cavalcade, a 1939 cinematography Oscar for Wuthering ...
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Hawaii tourism scores with an Oscar for "The Descendants"
Bizjournals.com (blog)
When "The Descendants" won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the Academy Awards on Sunday, Hawaii's tourism industry also won. USA Today reports the film, based upon the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, herself a descendant of Grove Farm founder George ...
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'The Descendants' DVD release March 13
Cincinnati.com (blog)
"The Descendants" won one Academy Award last night (from five nominations), best adapted screenplay for director Alexander Payne. Clooney won best actor for "The Descendants" from the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. The DVD includes two other ...
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Cincinnati.com (blog)

Angelina Jolie Leg Display, Brad Pitt
Alt Film Guide (blog)
Angelina Jolie wasn't nominated for anything, but she was a presenter of original and adapted screenplay Oscars. The absent Woody Allen won for Best Original Screenplay for Midnight in Paris, starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Marion Cotillard; ...
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Alt Film Guide (blog)

15 Oscar-Losing Sports Films
Total Pro Sports (blog)
Often cited as one of the all-time great sports films, and rightly so, Bull Durham was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. Unfortunately, it lost out to Rain Man—a good movie that got an unfair bump at the Oscars because of the ...
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Total Pro Sports (blog)

Director Daniel Zirilli Signs on to New Mass Hysteria Thriller "END OF THE GUN"
Sacramento Bee
28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mass Hysteria Entertainment Company, Inc. (OTCBB:MHYS) has optioned the rights to the action screenplay, "END OF THE GUN" written by Chuck Hustmyre and to be directed by Daniel Zirilli (LOCKED DOWN, CIRCLE OF PAIN).
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Angelina Jolie Spends the Day with Brad Pitt's Mom – and Her Twins
People Magazine
And although she was all smiles, Jolie, 36, wasn't striking any poses for the paparazzi like she did when she hit the Oscars stage to present the award for Best Adapted Screenplay Sunday night.
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Times good, bad at this year's Oscars
Kennebec Journal
Woody Allen's win for "Midnight in Paris" screenplay. Woody wasn't there because he almost never leaves Manhattan. He always says that he can't be too far away from the famous Russian Tea Room. In reality he hates the "other coast where the only ...
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The Best Book Adaptations
Huffington Post (blog)
Harry Potter aside, the time has passed when a bestselling novel or a hit play will automatically be transferred to the screen, but the brief heyday of the original screenplay in the 1970s (most gloriously represented by Robert Towne's Chinatown) has ...
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UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News
UPI.com
The absent Woody Allen won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Midnight in Paris," while Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash took home the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Descendants." "We bow to our fellow nominees," Payne said.
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Angelina Jolie Oscars Imitator Explains 'Loving Tribute' To Actress' Leg
MTV.com
By Jocelyn Vena (@jocelyn1212) On Sunday night at the 2012 Oscars, "The Descendants" co-writer Jim Rash hit the stage with Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon to accept the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. They were handed their prize by Angelina Jolie, ...
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Angelina at the Academy Awards: Too Thin or Fashion Win?
Everyday Health
While presenting the statues for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, Jolie, 36, struck a fierce leg-baring stance in a custom-made Atelier Versace gown with a thigh-high slit, prompting her leg to get its own Twitter account and ...
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The Road Ahead: 10 Tips for the Screenwriter
WordandFilm.com
Robert Towne advised students at the American Film Institute, "Generally speaking, the process of writing a screenplay is figuring out how to keep the dialogue as spare as possible." Try to think of a scene first in visual terms and only resort to ...
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The Oscars: What You Might Have Missed
The Morton Report
But then, during her presentation for Best Adapted Screenplay, she dramatically stuck out her pasty pin again, hand on hip, flubbing her lines and blinding the audience with her shiny wan countenance. Angelina has a beautiful face, but man, ...
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WATCH: The 'Descendants' Screenwriter Mocks Angelina Jolie
The Female Fan
Before starting to read the nominees for the two screenwriting awards, Jolie (dressed in a gorgeous Atelier Versace dress with a thigh-high split) stuck her hand on her hip and popped out her right leg out of the sexy slit. So when The Descendants trio ...
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Doug Moe: Anecdotes illustrate film's fickle nature
Capital Times
McBride, 64, who teaches screenwriting and film history at San Francisco State University, has a new book, "Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless," published this week. It is filled with practical advice and the kind of colorful ...
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Angel-backed film The Shore scoops Oscar
Siliconrepublic.com
The film itself has been written, directed and produced by Belfast native and triple Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Terry George. A screenwriter with a prolific output to his name, George is probably best known for being the writer behind ...
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Rajamouli feels Nithya must 'mind her weight'
Times of India
Tollywood screenwriter and film maker SS Rajamouli who has given superhits like "Simhadri", "Chatrapati", Ram Charan Tej-starrer " Magadheera" etc, is in the midst of a controversy that is fast snowballing, following his tweet about actress Nithya ...
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MOVIE REVIEWS - Safe House
Wigan Today
The identity of the mole within CIA ranks is obvious, but we play along with screenwriter Guggenheim as he attempts to convince us it is not the most likely candidate. "People don't want the truth any more. Keeps them up at night," claims one CIA ...
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Bogdanovich presented with Golden Seal
B92
Expressing his gratitude in a ceremony in Belgrade over the weekend, the renowned director, actor and screenwriter stated that he was receiving the award also in the name of his father, a Serb and an excellent painter, who would have been "very proud ...
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Angelina Jolie's right leg steals the show
CNN (blog)
Screenwriter Jim Rash, part of the Oscar-winning writing team from "The Descendants," which picked up the best adapted screenplay award, couldn't help but mimic the leggy star when it was his turn to take the stage. Rash tells Entertainment Weekly that ...
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See 'Hugo' at home
Beaver County Times
In the book "Hugo: The Shooting Script" (Newmarket Press; $19.99), screenwriter John Logan discusses aspects of the story that caused Scorsese and him to fall in love with the characters. Logan writes: "What was it about the book that touched me?
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I Frankenstein starts shoot
Film Business Asia
By Patrick Frater The gothic horror story is directed by Stuart Beattie (pictured), the Australian screenwriter who became a hit director with his first effort Tomorrow When The War Began. The story is an adaptation of a graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux ...
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Powerful Costume in We Need to Talk About Kevin
Clothes on Film
Questions one could argue that director Lynne Ramsay and screenwriter Rory Kinnear (adapted from Lionel Shriver's novel) never intended their audience to be able to answer satisfactorily. To describe the film as 'arty' would be doing everyone involved ...
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Lee Byung-hun to star as Joseon king in movie
The Korea Herald
The movie, whose working title is "King of Joseon," is written by "Oldboy" screenwriter Hwang Jo-yoon and directed by "Mapado" and "Late Blossom" auteur Choo Chang-min. The fictional plot of the film develops as the eccentric king runs into Ha-seon, ...
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'The Artist' a not-so-loud but very clear winner at Academy Awards
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
(Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) screenwriter who yearns for the days of glamorous 1920s Paris. The Academy member holdout has won three Oscars before, and true to his tradition was a no show, with Jolie accepting for him in the name of the ...
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Allen's Oscar marks end of long career slump
Times LIVE
Though the film did not bring Allen a golden statuette for directing, he triumphed for his writing for Midnight, a romantic fantasy about an Allen-esque Hollywood screenwriter who falls in love with Paris. The main character, played by Owen Wilson, ...
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Oscars make an effort to be inclusive
The Republic
"Margin Call" screenwriter JC Chandor said, "I thought it was a good joke, but it missed. The host came under fire almost immediately in the Twitterverse soon after Spencer won her Oscar when Crystal talked about how much he loved "The Help" and came ...
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PHOTOS | Oscar winners
WXIA-TV
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Screenwriter Jim Rash, winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay Award for 'The Descendants,' arrives at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Sunset Tower on February 26, 2012 in West Hollywood, ...
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'The Artist' wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards
CTV.ca
"Descendents" co-screenwriter Alexander Payne, who also directed the film, said his mother demanded that he mention her on stage. "She made me promise that if I ever won another Oscar I had to dedicate it to her just like Javier Bardem did with his ...
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Profile of Michel Hazanavicius
Sky Movies
He is now an Oscar nominated French film director, producer and screenwriter. 1998- He began to work in the television business and started to pursue directing in 1998. 1999- He worked as a commercial and television director and made his directorial ...
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Oscars 2012: The Winners' Reactions
Hollywood Reporter
[Screenwriter] Steve Zaillian did a terrific job. But it was a challenge as the final outcome of this film is what you're working for. The original [Swedish] film was, this sounds harsh, but irrelevant to me because I'm being responsive to what ...
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2012 Academy Awards: Red carpet arrivals
MiamiHerald.com
KEVORK DJANSEZIAN / GETTY IMAGES Screenwriter Annie Munulo and actress-writer Kristen Wiig arrive at the 84th Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. JASON MERRITT / GETTY IMAGES ...
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Bollywood Journal: How Did That Movie Get Here?!
Wall Street Journal (blog)
A typical weekend lineup at the Art has a mix any masala screenwriter would be proud of: a big-name foreign or independent American film, maybe a thematic program like Oscar-nominated animated shorts, a cult classic like "The Big Lebowski," and a ...
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2012 Academy Awards: Oscar Live Blog
Paste Magazine
David Greenberg said: As a screenwriter myself and a screenwriting instructor who assigns stories to my students to adapt, this might be this year's hardest category for me. Hugo was magical, Moneyball was staggeringly brilliant but, for me, ...
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Proposition 8 play soon to grace stage in Port City
Seacoastonline.com
That district court trial is the basis for the play "8," written by Hollywood screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who also wrote "Milk" and "J. Edgar." Thanks to the quick thinking of David Mauriello and the staff of The Players' Ring, the Marcy Street ...
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This week's cultural highlights: Rampart and Laura Marling
The Guardian
Oren Moverman) James Ellroy is the screenwriter of this gripping tale of a dirty LAPD cop. Woody Harrelson is the crooked officer, facing a brutal endgame. Out now. Ballet Black: Short Dance Works As always, this small-scale company punches above its ...
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The Guardian

Oscars – the winners!
BehindWoods
Sharmeen is a Pakistani and reports say that this is the first time a Pakistani is winning a Oscar award. The Descendants won the Best Adapted Screenplay. This film is based on the by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Screenwriter and director Alexander Payne along ...
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Photos: 2012 Oscars Red Carpet
Pioneer Press
(Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT) Screenwriter Beau Willimon arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards show at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, February 26, 2012. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT) ...
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Angelina Jolie mocked for showing off leg in Oscars gown
New York Post
As screenwriter Jim Rash ascended the stage to accept the award, along with fellow writers Nat Faxon and Alexander Payne, he took a moment to poke fun at Jolie's off-kilter stance. While Payne spoke at the microphone, Rash stood behind him and shimmied ...
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New York Post

Angelina Jolie Gets Mocked For Dramatic Oscar Pose (VIDEO)
GossipCop
The pose was so dramatic that The Descendants screenwriter Jim Rash, who accepted the award with co-writers Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon, poked fun at her during his speech! Assuming a mock-sultry expression, Rash imitated Jolie's posture, ...
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Act of Valor, Seriously Authentic
Arizona Reporter
Rather than audition actors, McCoy and Waugh recruited eight, anonymous real-life SEALs whom they felt represented a cross-section of the corps, while screenwriter Kurt Johnstad created an uneven, generic plotline in which the team would rescue a ...
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The Artist triumphs at the Oscars
BBC News
Veteran screenwriter and director Woody Allen won best original screenplay for Midnight in Paris but was not there to collect the award. The first two awards of the night went to Hugo for cinematography and art direction.
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'The Artist' speaks volumes at Oscars, winning three top awards
Kansas City Star
The prize in the live-action short category went to "The Shore," by "Hotel Rwanda" screenwriter Terry George, which recounts a father's return to Ireland as he mends a damaged childhood friendship. Crystal stepped in as a replacement host in November, ...
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