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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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Film Journal
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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Novinite.com
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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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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