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• Aliens, Another Reason to Get Excited for Battleship

  
  /Film — Authority: 766
  I was trying to remain positive about this upcoming Battleship movie because I think director Peter Berg has the potential to be great, but he’s making it really hard for me right now. Latino Review got the scoop a few days ago that the big bad in Battleship won’t be Nazis, reverse vampires, or ominous ...
  6 hours ago

• David Fincher Directing Adaptation of The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

  
  /Film — Authority: 766
  Assuming David Fincher survives the Herculean task of retelling the epic tale of Facebook in The Social Network , it seems that his next project will bring him back to familiar territory. We’ve learned that Fincher has signed on to adapt The Reincarnation of Peter Proud alongside screenwriter Andrew Kevin ...
  7 hours ago

• Duncan Jones To Direct Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code

  
  /Film — Authority: 766
  Set for production in the first quarter of next year is sci-fi thriller Source Code with Duncan Jones ( Moon ) set to direct and Jake Gyllenhaal in the starring role. This puts Mute and Escape From The Deep to one side, at least for a while but it at definitely seems like a fascinating story and well worth ...
  14 hours ago

• The Mail I Get - Writing the Treatment

  
  A Writer's Life — Authority: 472
  Bryon Stedman  asked me this question in a comment  to another post: I have a situation where a broadcast entity claims they want to hear my idea for a boxing series or made for TV movie. The characters belong to my family from a comic drawn by my father. If a narrative is they way to go, what are the key ...
  1 day ago

• Amy Heckerling Gets Vampy with Krysten Ritter

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 750
  I hope you dont hate vampires, because they dont seem to be going anywhere. Now Amy Heckerling , the woman behind Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless , is getting in on the bloodsucking. According to Screen Daily , Parlay Films has grabbed the international rights to an upcoming romantic comedy called ...
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• Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours To Have Over An Hour of No Dialogue

  
  /Film — Authority: 766
  A couple days ago it was reported that Danny Boyle ( Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later ) had found his next film project, 127 Hours , a story of Aron Ralston , the mountain climber who amputated his own arm to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for nearly five days. Indiewire had a ...
  1 day ago

• last minute class opening

  
  celluloid blonde — Authority: 125
   This class was full but —There is a last minute seat opening in The November 7 class [which starts tomorrow] :Beating the Second Act Slump : 6 Week Workshop begins Saturday November 7th. This is an online 6 week advanced course on screenplay structure taught by yours truly Max Adams. Subjects include breaking the ...
  2 days ago

• Twilight Vamp Zeroes in on Her Own Supernatural Horror

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 750
  Ashley Greenes cinematic path hasnt been gradual. It all started with a couple one-ep stints on a few shows, a gig on a quickly vaporized show called Desire , time as a McDonalds customer in King of California, an uncredited moment on Shark , and playing Kim #4 in Otis . Then everything changed. She put on the ...
  2 days ago

• JJ Abrams to Produce Micronauts?

  
  /Film — Authority: 766
  Yesterday we told you that JJ Abrams was producing another top-secret Cloverfield -sized film titled 500 Rads. In a post- Cloverfield/Star Trek world, JJ Abrams is working on a lot of different projects — not 24 hours later do we find out that the screenwriter turned filmmaker/producer is in talks to produce a ...
  3 days ago

• Bangalore Screenwriting Workshop

  
  PassionforCinema.com — Authority: 141
  It all started when I couldn’t attend a workshop due to personal reasons. A wonderful experience I missed, which could have added a lot to my learning curve. And then I learnt that I wasn’t the only one, there were many more like me who couldn’t attend the workshop due to various reasons like other commitments ...
  3 days ago

• Johnny Depp Might Be The Tourist

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 750
  Sonys thriller The Tourist just keeps sending its talent packing. Originally set to be a vehicle for Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron , it shifted gears last month and was re-cast with Angelina Jolie and Sam Worthington . But once again, The Tourist finds itself without travel arrangements for a male lead as ...
  4 days ago

• This is a Stick-Up, Patrick Dempsey

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 750
  Once upon a time here on Cinematical (actually, it was a mere year ago), I pondered whether you could ever be too attractive to be believable. I reasoned that it was a bit silly to argue that Angelina Jolie was too pretty to be the mother of a kidnapped child, because good looks doesnt equal good luck. But I might ...
  4 days ago

• Robert Pattinson Beds Nicole Kidman

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 750
  Once youve made emotional mincemeat out of legions of adoring young girls, whats next? How do you transcend tweendom and seduce the seas of adult women ( Twilight moms not included)? Bedding Nicole Kidman is a start. Screen Daily reports that Robert Pattinson and Kidman have signed on to star in an adaptation ...
  4 days ago

• Screenwriting 101: Shane Black

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 489
  "Well, it’s sort of like being led by the nose by the process as opposed to having any particular control over it. As ideas occur to me over a period of time, I’ll write down little bits and snippets for scenes and pieces of dialog — ideas for a character, interesting little anecdotes, things that amuse me, ...
  4 days ago

• Screenwriting Quote of the Day #110 (Paul Haggis)

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 425
  In 2006 the first person in more than 50 years to win back to back Oscar Awards in screenwriting was Paul Haggis. He then followed his award-winning scripts Million Dollar Baby and Crash with another Academy Award nomination in 2007 for his script Letters from Iwo Jima.Haggis had a background in theater and ...
  5 days ago

• DreamWorks Buys How to Survive a Robot Uprising Author’s Robopocalypse

  
  /Film — Authority: 766
  DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday have acquired, in a pre-emptive deal, the rights to Daniel H. Wilson ’s unpublished manuscript, Robopocalypse . The story “explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising.” The film project is being fast tracked and the book is tentatively being scheduled for a ...
  5 days ago

• I’m a minor celebrity

  
  Smita Jain's Weblog — Authority: 112
  I have acquired a minor celebrity status in the film circles and, I must say, it is extremely agreeable. Right after I optioned Kkrishnaa’s Konfessions for film rights, at least two other producers/directors have expressed interest in the book. And since Kkrishnaa’s Konfessions has already been optioned, they are ...
  5 days ago

• Writing for Editing

  
  FilmmakerIQ.com — Authority: 427
  by Gael Chandler “The humbling truth is that the film is made in the editing room.” -David Mamet introducing the nominations for editing during the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony Editors are often called the last re-writers of the show. Another way to put this is that the editor is the architect of the show. ...
  5 days ago

• 10 Ways to Get Over Writers Block

  
  The Anthology of Codology — Authority: 410
  Kill yourself.Kill someone else.Quit writing . . . FOREVER!Take ecstasy.Masturbate into oblivion.Create multiple aliases and argue with yourself online.Smash up your home.Stop sleeping.Doodle, in blood!Relax, take some time out and have fun.You can do one or all of these in whichever order you wish. I recommend ...
  6 days ago

• The Mail I Get

  
  A Writer's Life — Authority: 472
  Ive been getting variations of this email a lot lately, so I thought Id share my answer to this one here: Lee,   I was wondering about your time management. How long does it take for you to write your blog everyday, and what type of writing schedule do you have, and is it iron-clad? Do you keep a notebook with you ...
  6 days ago

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