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• Creative writing and Script writing in February in Bangalore

  
  Mountain, — Authority: 85
  Storygram is starting creative writing workshops on Weekends , 4th and 5th Feb to begin with. Fees Rs.3,200/ We are also following up with Script writing workshops, which will continue on Weekends throughout February. Fees Rs.9,200/ Venue : Indian Express, Queens road, near Shivaji Nagar, Bangalore. Schedule : 11am to ...
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• The First Academy Awards (1929)

  
  Screenwriting from Iowa — Authority: 107
  Inspired by seeing the silent film The Artist (2011) I’ve spent most of the past week or so reflecting on the early days of motion pictures, and since the Academy Award nominations are today it seems fitting to look back on the first Academy Awards on May 18, 1929. One of the most significant things [...]
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• Francis Ford Coppola On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration

  
  FilmmakerIQ.com — Authority: 467
  Ariston Anderson interviews Francis Ford Coppola (“The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now”) on how to bridge the gap between distribution and commerce, screenwriting, and directing great actors. How does an aspiring artist bridge the gap between distribution and commerce? We have to be very clever about those ...
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• Producers of ‘The Road’ Acquire the Rights to Cormac McCarthy’s Script ‘The Counselor’

  
  Fused Film — Authority: 501
  If you haven’t read any of Cormac McCarthy’s works, chances are you saw one of his works being adapted into a movie. The Road, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and No Country for Old Men are novels that have been turned into movies. Now one of McCarthy’s newest pieces will be turned into a movie yet ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Perfectly Happy” [contd]: “The Descendants”

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 128
  Remember this post from the other day about Hollywood movie producer Lindsay Doran: After reading the book “Flourish,” by Martin E. P. Seligman, a catalyst of the positive-psychology movement, she began rewatching films through the lens of what Dr. Seligman identifies as the five essential elements of ...
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• Joel Edgerton Sells Spec Script ‘One Night Stand’ to New Regency

  
  /Film — Authority:
  Between last year’s Warrior and The Thing and this year’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green , The Great Gatsby , and the untitled Kathryn Bigelow thriller, there’s no doubt Joel Edgerton is one of the hottest rising stars in Hollywood. But if his recent sale to New Regency is any indication, he could soon be ...
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• ‘The Road’ Producers Buy ‘The Counselor,’ a Script by Cormac McCarthy

  
  /Film — Authority:
  Good news today for fans of author Cormac McCarthy ( The Road , Blood Meridian , All the Pretty Horses ). He has written and sold a screenplay called The Counselor . It is contemporary and set in the Southwest, and said to be reminiscent of his novel No Country For Old Men . Much of the discussion of this new ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Katzenberg Memo, Part 8

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 128
  In January 1991, Jeffrey Katzenberg , then the head of Disney’s motion picture divisions, wrote a memo that ended up being circulated throughout Hollywood. Even though it is 21 years old, it is remarkably relevant to the current movie business. For example, the United States was in a recession as we are today. The ...
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• 17 Interviews With Indie Filmmakers, Screenwriters & More!

  
  The Athletic Nerd — Authority: 111
  In 2010, I began interviewing fellow independent filmmakers, screenwriters, editors and passionate film fans.  In 2011, I created an entire section on this site dedicated to these interviews .  Below you’ll find all 17 2011 interviews covering everything from writing to promoting your finished film.  You’ll ...
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• Inside Philip Shelley (The Man Who Runs The Channel 4 Screenwriting Competition)

  
  Screenwriting Goldmine Blog — Authority: 92
  I first met Philip Shelley in the late 1990’s when he was a very amiable – and acutely perceptive – editorial presence in an office along the corridor from mine in the BBC Drama Series Department. Since then he’s gone on from there from strength to strength, worked on some terrifically high profile projects, ...
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• New Screenwriting Books for 2012

  
  Write Vision — Authority: 92
  Find these books in Canada
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• Story Talismans

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 128
  I have written before about the value of story talismans — physical objects that take on an emotional meaning — as I did here analyzing the importance of the shilling in The King’s Speech . Story talismans are doubly valuable to a writer because they communicate something to the script reader in a visual way. ...
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• TEN MINUTES. DOESN’T SEEM LIKE MUCH RIGHT?

  
  Filmmaker Magazine — Authority: 128
  Written in collaboration with Clay McLeodOur short film—Henley—had been back-burning in our brains for over five years. Clay had published a novel back in 2003 called Miss Corpus. Craig, it turns out, was the only person who read it. There’s a chapter in the book, The Henley Road Motel, which is all about a boy ...
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• Just Effing Entertain Me Screenwriting Competition Grand Prize Winner

  
  Just F-ng Entertain Me — Authority: 100
  Today at 3:15PM, Jared Kelly arrives in Los Angeles to collect his prizes! I will be there to pick him up, then off for several days of meetings, lunches and shopping as I roll out the red carpet for this very talented writer! Jared will be blogging about his experience so you can get a [...]
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• The Katzenberg Memo, Part 7

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 128
  In January 1991, Jeffrey Katzenberg , then the head of Disney’s motion picture divisions, wrote a memo that ended up being circulated throughout Hollywood. Even though it is 21 years old, it is remarkably relevant to the current movie business. For example, the United States was in a recession as we are today. The ...
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• Screenwriting 101: Guinevere Turner

  
  Go Into The Story — Authority: 128
  “Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, you have a cushy life–you just sit around and write.’ I’m like, ‘No, it’s actually really hard.’ As I like to say, I wish my job was being a bricklayer–because I would lay the bricks, the wall would be built, and that would be it. Nobody could deny that it’s a fucking brick ...
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• Best Web Video Writing of 2011

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 677
  For the second year in a row, the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East will celebrate new media writing at their annual awards ceremony, recognizing pioneers in the frontier of web video writing. Below, we’ve linked to all the nominees in the Original New Media and Derivative New ...
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• Woody Allen Wins Best Screenplay at 2012 Golden Globes

  
  Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog — Authority: 503
  Woody Allen won Best Screenplay at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards for Midnight in Paris . Allen both wrote and directed the wonderful film. The lead character Gil (Owen Wilson) meets many famous artists, publishers and writers from the 1920s as he travels back in time in Paris. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, ...
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• Lionsgate Locks Simon Beaufoy to Write ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel

  
  Fused Film — Authority: 501
  Lionsgate may be paving the way for itself to be the movie studio with the hit young adult noel adaption with The Hunger Games , since it just locked Gary Ross to direct the sequel and Simon Beaufoy ( Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours ) to pen its script, reports The Wrap The Beaufoy pick up shouldn’t come ...
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• Thoughts on Moving to California

  
  Alex Hilhorst — Authority: 92
  From the moment I made the decision to pack up my life and lug it across the country to the West Coast, one thought dominated my brain for every waking moment of my existence: have I made the right choice? The reasoning behind my decision was sound: I wanted to be a screenwriter and the industry was in Los Angeles, ...
  2 weeks ago

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