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The Town Screenwriter Hired To Script Top Gun 2
Cinema Blend
Screenwriter Peter Craig only has one produced credit to his name, but it's a damn good one. A few years back, Craig teamed up with Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard to adapt Chuck Hogan's Prince of Thieves and the result wasThe Town, one of the best ...
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Cinema Blend
'Top Gun 2' Recruits 'The Town' Screenwriter
Screen Rant
Risky Business says that Paramount has tapped The Town co-screenwriter Peter Craig to script Top Gun 2. Besides receiving acclaim for his work on Ben Affleck's 2010 crime-drama, Craig also rewrote the screenplay for Horse Soldiers (which Top Gun ...
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Screen Rant
Top Gun 2 Lands Screenwriter
Comic Book Resources
This paved the way for another hot screenwriter, Peter Craig, to put his spin on the further adventures of Maverick. Craig burst onto the writing scene with the 2010 crime film The Town and has since penned the upcoming Horse Soldiers and Fathers and ...
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Comic Book Resources
Sweet Tea and Tart Women
New York Times
If you're the comedic screenwriter Robert Harling, and you've ruled out making a living as a Norma Desmond "it's the pictures that got small" drag queen, as he said the other day, you take your bag of writing tricks and go to television.
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New York Times
'Top Gun 2' moving forward with 'The Town' screenwriter Peter Craig
HitFix
Now Variety is reporting that "The Town" screenwriter Peter Craig has signed a deal to pen the sequel, which Scott previously told our own Gregory Ellwood will incorporate the cutting-edge technologies that are utilized in 21st century warfare.
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East Quogue Resident Makes Switch from Screenwriting to Novel Writing
Patch.com
Jason Hefter grew up in Riverhead and has made his way from North Carolina, to Australia, to New York City to Los Angeles - and is now an East Quogue resident - on the strength of his screenwriting abilities. But now, the former screenwriter is looking ...
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Russell Redds, Screenwriter, Producer
Reelz
Jonah Hill, who plays the role of Schmidt in the movie and also conceived of the remake's story with screenwriter Michael Bacall, told E! Online that a sequel has been ordered. We are writing the sequel now. We got [the greenlight] by the studio to ...
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Peter Craig writing Top Gun 2
Total Film
Top Gun 2 is apparently moving forward, with Variety reporting that The Town screenwriter Peter Craig has been hired by Paramount to write a script for the high-flying sequel. As yet, there has been no official confirmation that Tom Cruise will return, ...
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Total Film
Ashton Kutcher Rebounding with Demi Moore Look-alike?
Gather Celebs News Channel
To be fair, actress-screenwriter Lorene Scafaria is not a perfect twin of Demi Moore. Perhaps it is just their hair, their face, and pretty much everything else about Lorene that is reminding people of Demi. Perhaps it is just that Ashton Kutcher has a ...
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Will Tom Cruise Reprise Role in 'Top Gun' Sequel?
OK! Magazine
Top Gun 2 is definitely in the works and a screenwriter has just signed on the dotted line to pen the project. So, now that it's been given the green light, the obviously next question is this: Will Tom Cruise reprise his role as Maverick?
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The Viking View: 2012 Oscars: Who Will Arise Victorious?
my.hsj.org
This is the equivalent of the prom of awards shows for actors, directors, screenwriters, etc. The nominees for each category were recently released, so I'd like to try my hand at predicting the winners. Disclaimer: While I may not have seen all of ...
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Peter Craig to Write Top Gun Sequel
ComingSoon.net
Paramount Pictures has brought aboard The Town screenwriter Peter Craig to draft a sequel to their 1986 hit Top Gun, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter. The original film was directed by Tony Scott and starred Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Pete ...
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'Billy Elliot' soars and inspires at the Broward Center
MiamiHerald.com
BY CHRISTINE DOLEN Billy Elliot, the inspiring tale of an 11-year-old British boy whose life is forever altered when he discovers dance, has been beguiling audiences ever since screenwriter Lee Hall and director Stephen Daldry made a movie of it in ...
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Moneyball, Descendants, Hack Adapters
RhinoTimes.com Greensboro
When a screenwriter sets out to adapt a novel for the screen, there are two basic approaches. One is to tell the story of the novel as faithfully as possible, making only the changes required to make use of the strengths of the film medium and avoid ...
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Release Dates for WELCOME TO PEOPLE, HICK, and FOR A GOOD TIME CALL
Collider.com
by Adam Chitwood Posted:February 29th, 2012 at 3:30 pm Welcome to People – The directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Kurtzman starring Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks is dated for June 29th. Hick – The adaptation of Andrea Portes' novel starring Chloe ...
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Collider.com
Jared Hess Helming Family Sci-Fi Comedy The Pet
Cinema Blend
Based on an original idea by Short Circuit screenwriter Matt Lieberman, The Pet follows a human who is abducted by extraterrestrials and turned into their family pet. The trade notes that Rudin has been shepherding this picture along since 2007, ...
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Cinema Blend
'Citizen Soldiers' no 'Citizen Kanes' in 'Act of Valor'
WTOP
Screenwriter Kurt Johnstad may have scored a hit with "300" (2006), but it's now time for him to go back to his "screenwriting Bible" and have a "come to Christo" moment. The mediocre writing isn't done any favors by the non-actors reading the dialogue ...
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John Logan's Red Delivers Drama at Cleveland Play House
Examiner.com
A thrilling new American play and winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, Red is written by John Logan (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Hugo, Gladiator, The Aviator and Sweeney Todd). Director Anders Cato returns to CPH after acclaimed ...
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Daily Hollywood – The Real Housewives of Vancouver, Bristol Palin's Reality ...
Neon Tommy
"Rock of Ages" is coming to the big screen soon, and now the screenwriter of "The Town" announced that he's signed onto "Top Gun 2." Paging Kenny Loggins… (The Hollywood Reporter) The Real Housewives franchise has officially jumped the border.
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Writer Jon is nominated for a top honour
This is Gloucestershire
THE cartoon creation of a Cheltenham screenwriter is up for more honours at a prestigious ceremony later this month. The Amazing World of Gumball, co-written by Charlton Kings man Jon Foster, 30, has been nominated for a gong at the Royal Television ...
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The Snowtown Murders
A.V. Club DC
Adapted by screenwriter Shaun Grant and novice feature-director Justin Kurzel from a true story, The Snowtown Murders stars Lucas Pittaway as a shy teenager who falls under the spell of his mother's charismatic boyfriend Daniel Henshall, ...
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A.V. Club DC
Hot Stars Lily Collins And Tom Hiddleston Catch A Chill For 'Winter's Tale'
NextMovie (blog)
By Max Evry | Feb 29, 2012 | 2:04 PM | Comments Blockbuster screenwriter Akiva Goldsman ("The Da Vinci Code," "I Am Legend") is beckoning some of the biggest emerging talents in town to put on their parkas and trudge through the snow with him for "A ...
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NextMovie (blog)
Why You Should Read The Hunger Games
About - News & Issues
Suzanne Collins was already a seasoned screenwriter with another YA series under her belt when she began writing about Katniss Everdeen, the "girl on fire" who sparked a revolution in The Hunger Games. That was followed by Catching Fire and Mockingjay, ...
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Crazy for 8
TheaterMania.com
Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has based the work -- first seen last fall in New York -- on court transcripts and interviews surrounding the 2010 federal court case Perry V. Schwarzenegger, which sought to overturn Proposition 8, ...
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TheaterMania.com
'Being Flynn': When Dad Needs To Take Shelter
NPR
Director/screenwriter Paul Weitz (left) adapted Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir, Another Bulls- - - Night in Suck City. Flynn and Paul Weitz, the film's director, tell Fresh Air's Dave Davies that the film boils down to a few important themes.
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Martin Scorsese's Film School vs. Roger Ebert's Parakeets
Smithsonian (blog)
Not so surprising for someone so steeped in cinema history, as screenwriter John Logan pointed out in my posting on Hugo: "Marty Scorsese is the world's greatest cineaste. In his head he carries an archive of practically every film ever made.
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Smithsonian (blog)
Is Ashton Kutcher Dating a Demi Moore Lookalike?
Extra TV
Kutcher brought Lorene Scafaria, a screenwriter/actress, to Madonna's Oscar after-party on Sunday. The day before the Academy Awards, the pair reportedly attended the X Prize charity party, and according to a source on US Weekly, ...
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Extra TV
Girl, interpreted
GQ.com
Keira Knightley has been on the phone for two hours talking to Lorene Scafaria, best known as the 33-year-old screenwriter of Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, about her directorial debut, the tragicomic Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.
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Special Screening of documentary film "Niranjan Pal: A Forgotten Legend" at Jamia
India Education Diary
... Islamia organized a special screening of a 30 minute documentary film "Niranjan Pal: A Forgotten Legend" chronicling the life of Niranjan Pal, a forgotten Indian revolutionary turned playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker on February 24, 2012.
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'Misfits' Producers Developing Two Series For BBC America
Screen Rant
The seeds of the new agreement will consist of the sci-fi drama Wired, from screenwriter Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch, Afterlife), and The Dead Beat, a paranormal crime thriller written by John Jackson (Being Human). Stephen Volk's Wired dives into the ...
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Screen Rant
Interview: Director Martin Guigui (Beneath the Darkness)
Examiner.com
Upon receiving screenwriter Bruce Wilkinson's script for "Beneath the Darkness," Martin Guigui was immediately interested in directing the horror film. "I thought it was a unique story with a fun villain and sort of a throwback, reminding me of the ...
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In the Picture
Northern Rivers Echo
With a confrontational personality and a fondness for drinking and prostitutes, Gleeson plays a sometimes honest cop who describes himself as "a lowly country nobody" in the debut feature by screenwriter/director John Michael McDonagh, who wrote the ...
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A TED Talk, Circa 2023
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Why, yes, indeed: In a bid for some viral publicity, the screenwriter for "Prometheus" drafted a speech for Weyland, played by Guy Pearce, to give at "TED2023," and Scott's son, Luke Scott, directed just such a talk — or the tantalizing start of it.
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–From the Prop 8 Transcripts
Vital VOICE
Still transcripts are publicly available and Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has turned them into a Broadway play simply titled "8". The show moves to Los Angeles this month with a star studded cast including George Clooney, ...
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Columnist loves Iron Lady
SDSU Collegian
Before I came to SDSU to work my way through the pre-med track, I had big dreams of becoming a motion picture director and screenwriter. If you were to ask me back then what one person I wanted to work with my answer would have been a quick one: Meryl ...
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'Act of Valor' and an alternative movie culture for Red America
Washington Times
Even an irreproachably conservative message can't save a film with bad acting, poor screenwriting and misguided direction. Lionel Chetwynd, the screenwriter and director behind movies such as "The Hanoi Hilton" and "Ike: Countdown to D-Day," said ...
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Washington Times
Sam Raimi's new "TRIFFIDS" gets a scripter
FANGORIA
... John Wyndham's classic killer-plants novel THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (already filmed once for the big screen and twice for British TV) has been talked up for what seems like forever, but now it's closer to happening with the hiring of a screenwriter.
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Puerto Rico on drug-fighting front lines
MiamiHerald.com
This is not a fictional scenario from a Hollywood screenwriter. It is the new reality of the drug war in the United States today. Over the last decade, the federal government has made headway in securing the southern US border, particularly in ...
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MiamiHerald.com


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