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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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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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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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Hollywood Reporter
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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ABC News
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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International Business Times
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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