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Kristen Wiig to tackle action role?
The Press Association
The Bridesmaids star is said to be attached to a lead role in the as-yet-untitled movie from the duo, who triumphed in the best adapted screenplay category at the Oscars, reported Variety. Kristen, who lost out to Woody Allen for the best original ...
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The Valley Line: Evenings of Oscars, gowns, books and writers
Valley Sun
I was thrilled to see that the Scripter Award winners, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, took home the Oscar for their adapted screenplay for "The Descendants." It was an exciting double victory for them. I really got a laugh during their ...
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Valley Sun
Westhill graduate turned Hollywood screenwriter heads to SXSW Film Festival ...
Syracuse.com
"Fat Kid Rules the World" is the second Galvin and Speakman screenplay written during their 15-year partnership to make it from page to screen. The duo had turned Galvin's novel into the screenplay for "Freak Talks About Sex," which was filmed in ...
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Syracuse.com
Chris Weitz to Write the Screenplay for Mark Romanek's Live-Action CINDERELLA ...
Collider.com
THR now reports that Chris Weitz (A Better Life) has signed on to write the screenplay. Details on the tone and plot are currently being kept under wraps, but Weitz turned in a great screenplay for About a Boy with his brother Paul.
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Collider.com
And the Oscars go to 3 secret bidders
Los Angeles Times
The most expensive was Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for 'Citizen Kane.' Auctioneer Nate Sanders auctioned off 15 Oscars on Tuesday, including an early version with a plaque as part of the statue. The statuettes sold for $3 ...
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Los Angeles Times
Oscar Winners Jim Rash and Nat Faxon on Angelina's Leg, Community, and The ...
Vulture (blog)
By Kyle Buchanan It's been a pretty terrific week for Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, whose work on The Descendants (co-written with director Alexander Payne) won them Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and worldwide notoriety when Rash mimicked Angelina ...
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One badge to rule them all: Last day to buy an AFF Producers Badge and enter ...
CultureMap Austin
In addition to the obvious perks that come with a Producers Badge, this year, AFF will also put your name into a drawing to win a copy of one of two screenplays, signed by their Academy Award-winning writers. The first is The Girl with the Dragon ...
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Kristen Wiig Attached to Action Comedy by 'Descendants' Writers Nat Faxon and ...
/FILM (blog)
But their screenwriting work for last year's The Descendants changed that, and with this weekend's Best Adapted Screenplay win, the future's looking brighter than ever for the pair. Among their several upcoming projects are an action comedy recently ...
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Inside the Unlucky/Lucky Life of 'Awake' Creator Kyle Killen
Hollywood Reporter
Then came The Beaver, a Killen screenplay about a depressed man who takes on an alternate personality as a hand puppet. The film, starring Mel Gibson and directed by Jodie Foster, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival to much fanfare but generated dismal ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Lost 'Star Trek' Episode to Be Filmed
Forbes
Well, it won't remain an unfilmed screenplay much longer. Star Trek: New Voyages, will be lensing it this summer. Star Trek: New Voyages is a group of fan filmmakers, and before you flee from the words "fan film," let me change your mind about Star ...
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Coast to coast Olympic film relay
Shetland News
The relay begins in Shetland on 10 June when the Olympic torch relay reaches the islands at its most northerly point, and will culminate in a marathon screening of more than 100 short films at Screenplay, Shetland's annual film festival, between 4 and ...
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Nat Faxon: 'It was awesome seeing comic friends at the Oscars'
Digital Spy
Faxon and writing partner Jim Rash, who is known for his role as the dean in NBC's sitcom Community, recently won the 'Best Adapted Screenplay' Oscar for their work in The Descendants. When New York Magazine asked how it felt to see other Groundlings ...
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Shetland Arts launches Hansel of Film
Shetland Times Online
This will culminate in a marathon screening of over 100 short films at Shetland's annual film festival Screenplay, between 4th and 9th September. The project will take films made by Shetlanders and others to 21 venues around the country and will form a ...
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Shetland Times Online
Jim Rash Denies Mocking Angelina Jolie, Her Right Leg & THAT Oscars Pose He ...
Entertainmentwise
The 'In The Land Of Blood And Honey' actress became a viral sensation after she stuck her right leg out through the slit in her Atelier Versace gown at the Oscars while on stage presenting the awards for 'Best Original Screenplay' and 'Best Adapted ...
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Entertainmentwise
Ajinomoto's Capsiate Natura® and Glysom™ Make a Splash at GBK Gift Lounge for ...
Bradenton Herald
As the first Japanese nutraceutical brand to feature its products in GBK's luxury gift bag for Oscar® nominees and presenters, Ajinomoto shared its two substantiated nutraceuticals with Nat Faxon (Oscar winner, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, ...
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Controversial sale of Oscar statuettes brings $3 million
Los Angeles Times
The most expensive statuette was Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Screenplay Academy Award for "Citizen Kane," which sold for $588455. The same award had been purchased in 1999 for $244500. The 15 statuettes had been collected by a Los Angeles businessman ...
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Auction of Oscar statuettes brings in $3 million
Chicago Tribune
Los Angeles auctioneer Nate D. Sanders said the hot seller of the collection was Herman Mankiewicz's statuette for best screenplay, which he won for co-writing the 1941 film "Citizen Kane" with Orson Welles. The Oscar sold for $588455.
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'Descendants' Writers Make a Move on Wiig
NextMovie (blog)
Screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who co-wrote "The Descendants" with Alexander Payne (and nabbed the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), have sold an action-comedy with Kristen Wiig attached to star. Though details remain scant, ...
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NextMovie (blog)
Oscar Auction Nets $3 Million for Statuettes
Hollywood Reporter
7:58 AM PST 2/29/2012 by AP The best-screenplay trophy awarded to Herman Mankiewicz for "Citizen Kane" fetched $588455 in the Los Angeles sale. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifteen Academy Awards statuettes from the 1930s and '40s, including the Best Screenplay ...
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Hollywood Reporter
Being Weitz
CU Columbia Spectator
In 2002, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for About a Boy. Weitz's most recent project Being Flynn, opens in theaters March 2 and explores the relationship between an estranged father and son. It stars Robert De Niro as ...
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An extraordinary testament from Iran's most persecuted filmmaker
Salon
By Andrew O'Hehir In the middle of acting out the screenplay of a film he isn't allowed to make, using strips of tape and a cellphone and his living-room carpet as his only props and sets, Iranian director Jafar Panahi grows discouraged.
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Salon
Lost 'Star Trek' Script Wasn't Really Lost, Says Former Editor
Forbes
John Ordover, a former editor of the Star Trek novels for Pocket Books, said that Norman Spinrad's lost screenplay, "He Walked Among Us," which recently resurfaced after 45 years, wasn't actually lost…Ordover had a copy of it in his office during his ...
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Forbes
Oscar round-up: 'The Artist' surpasses American films
The Independent Florida Alligator
Past Oscar winner Woody Allen won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Midnight in Paris." Allen is infamous for not showing up to award shows, but he is consistently recognized by the Academy for his exceptional screenplays and for his films ...
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A Separation
Monterey County Weekly
A Separation, a tense family drama set in contemporary Iran and written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, just won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and was nominated for Best Screenplay, both firsts for Iranian cinema. The theme of the film may sound ...
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At the Lincoln: 'Moonstruck' struck gold with audiences worldwide and with the ...
Massillon Independent
"Moonstruck" was a huge hit all over the world, winning Oscars for Best Actress for Cher, Best Supporting Actress for Olympia Dukakis, and Best Screenplay. It was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Vincent Gardenia), Best Director (Norman ...
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Polone: Four Star Screenwriters Talk About Rewrite Hell
Vulture (blog)
Facing a blinking cursor and a blank screen is much tougher than interpreting that screenplay. And for this arduous work, the screenwriter is compensated less than the producers, director, and stars: It is pretty rare for even an A-list writer to get ...
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Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Variety
Co-director, Kyle Balda; Screenplay, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, based on the book by Dr. Seuss. (Deluxe color). The late Theodor Geisel's uneven cinematic track record gets neither better nor worse with Universal's bigscreen adaptation of "The Lorax.
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Variety
Romantic comedy to open Tribeca film festival
Chicago Tribune
Stoller and Segel wrote the screenplay for "The Five-Year Engagement," teaming up again after Stoller directed and Segel starred-in and wrote the screenplay for relationship comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," which became a box office hit in 2008 ...
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'I don't give as*** if people think I'm gay': George Clooney addresses ...
Daily Mail
It was a nervous night for 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, Keibler made sure he went home with an Oscar of his own as her dress appeared to ...
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Daily Mail
'Project X': Teens and a high-school house party gone wild
The Seattle Times
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh, from a screenplay by Michael Bacall and Matt Drake. 93 minutes. Rated R for crude and sexual content throughout, nudity, drugs, drinking, pervasive language, reckless behavior and mayhem — all involving teens.
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Suspicion: Award winning Arizona indie film returns to Phoenix
Examiner.com
After winning second place for "screenplay written and taking place in Arizona" during the 2011 Phoenix Film Festival, Suspicion was screened at the 2011 Big Bear Lake Film Festival where it won the Jury Award for Best Feature Film.
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The Town's Peter Craig To Write Top Gun 2
WhatCulture!
The Hollywood Reporter say Peter Craig, writer of Ben Affleck's thrilling heist movie The Town, has been hired to put together a brand new screenplay for how the 25 years later sequel will go. All previous ideas have been chucked out with Thor scribes ...
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WhatCulture!
Columbia Pictures Sees Red With Valiant's BLOODSHOT
We Are Movie Geeks
Jeff Wadlow will write the screenplay. Bloodshot first appeared in Valiant comic books in 1992 and quickly became one of the comic world's most popular characters. Appearing in over 70 issues, the character sold seven million comic books globally and ...
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We Are Movie Geeks
Director Pierre Bagley Talks To S&A About "From The Rough" Release Problems + ...
Indie Wire (blog)
I found this story in 2004, and, over the next 5 1/2 years spent several hundred thousand dollars acquiring the right to film it, developing the story, and getting multiple drafts of a screenplay produced. My older son ultimately produced the ...
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Organic Farming Cannot Feed The World
Truth about Trade & Technology
Woody Allen won an Oscar for the screenplay to his film Midnight in Paris on Sunday night, but he didn't collect his golden statue in person. He's semi-famous for not attending the Academy Awards, which is odd because he also once said that 80 percent ...
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The Apartment
Sky Movies
Rightfully anointed 1960's Best Picture, Wilder's efforts were also rewarded with Oscars for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (with co-writer IAL Diamond, his partner-in-crime on Some Like It Hot). Proof that Hollywood romcoms were once ...
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Sky Movies
Jim Rash on Angelina Jolie's right leg at Oscars: 'I wasn't mocking'
Digital Spy
... got the attention of viewers and Twitter for sticking out her right leg from the slit of her dress on the red carpet. She struck the same pose when she presented the awards for 'Best Original Screenplay' and 'Best Adapted Screenplay'.
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Oscars go for gold
Sydney Morning Herald
The most expensive sold on Tuesday was Herman Mankiewicz's 1942 Best Screenplay Academy Award for Citizen Kane, which sold for $US588,455 ($545000). The same award had been purchased in 1999 for $US244,500. You're the only person reading this now.
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Movies to See in Isla Vista and Beyond: "Young Adult" and the Highly ...
Daily Nexus
After the success of her first screenplay, "Juno," Diablo Cody keeps surprising us with her witty writing, funny dialogues and truthful situations. You may laugh throughout the film, but the film taps into something deeper. Sadly, the film was totally ...
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Lindsey film festival opens today
Times Daily
Jarvis' script, "Culling Hens," won a screenplay award in 2010 and his animated short film, "The Birds Upstairs," won the Vanguard and Best Cinematography awards in the 2011 festival. "The film industry can be very fickle and capricious and is ...
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Times Daily
Karate for Life
University Observer Online
Returning to the Prince of Persia franchise in 2003, Mechner was creative director for the award-winning Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and also wrote the screenplay for the 2010 Prince of Persia film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
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University Observer Online
Brad Pitt Joins '8,' Dustin Lance Black's Prop. 8 Play
Huffington Post
Black -- who won an Academy Award for "Milk" for Best Original Screenplay, and more recently penned the script for "J. Edgar" -- researched for "8" by culling trial transcripts, firsthand accounts from the courtroom and interviews with the plaintiffs ...
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Turning the Leaf
Pique Newsmagazine
This year I'll finish that screenplay. This year I'll spend more time with my grandparents. This year I'll switch coffee for tea. This year, no more pizza. The list of resolutions for any given year is limitless and the list of failures is just as long ...
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Pique Newsmagazine
84th annual Oscars celebrate magic of movies
Gateway
Omaha native Alexander Payne and his writing partners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Descendants." It's painful, though, to see the best film of the year, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," lose in one of the three categories in ...
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15 Oscar statuettes rake in $3M amid controversy
Auction Central News
The gold-plated prizes, sold despite an official protest by Oscars organizers, included a Best Screenplay Academy Award for the iconic movie Citizen Kane, given to Herman Mankiewicz in 1941. Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders sold the Oscar, ...
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You'll have the time of your life
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Eleanor's carefully crafted screenplay, based on her own childhood growing up in the 1960s, as well as the "dirty dancing" competitions of her youth, hit screens in 1987 and went on to become the film of a generation. Of course, the film missed out ...
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