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MSNBC's John Ridley Sees Conspiracy in McCain Colombia Presence (NewsBusters)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:28:23 GMT

You've heard of Bush Derangement Syndrome, now it seems as though McCain Derangement Syndrome is starting to appear. As you might expect, the first outbreak was on MSNBC where liberal commentator and screenwriter John Ridley wondered whether McCain's coincidental presence in Colombia during the recent daring hostage rescue was really a publicity ploy: "We know that John McCain was down there...

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No overnight successes in screenwriting (The blog Film)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:15:00 GMT

The annual Screenwriter's festival has come to and end. I met up with two attendees who have made huge leaps forward

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Jake Gyllenhaal Bio (Dirt Digger Squad)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:49:34 GMT

Jake Gyllenhaal, birth name: Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, born: December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. Height: 6 ft (183 cm), Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius. Jake was born to director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner. Jake started acting at the age of 11. He is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie [...]

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The Wackness (FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:23:52 GMT

Both patient and therapist, self-medicating director/screenwriter Jonathan Levine took the words of rap artist Ghostface Killah to heart: “If you forget where you come from, you never gonna make it where you’re going.” Thus, Levine’s sophomore feature film effort takes place in a New York City in 1994, the year he graduated from a private high school. His alter-ego, Luke Shapiro’s (Josh Peck)...

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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4. July (European Tribune)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:56:13 GMT

On this date in history: 1931 - Birth of Sébastien Japrisot, a French author, screenwriter...

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"Sopranos" Co-Star Leaves a Life of Crime (The Village Vidiot)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:48:00 GMT

Michael Imperioli, the wiseguy and wannabe screenwriter in HBO's "The Sopranos," is jumping the fence and going from Mob member to police detective for the new ABC drama, "Life on Mars." Imperioli will play Det. Ray Carling, a politically incorrect investigator who works with the protagonist, a detective from today who is warped back to the 1970s. The show, which was adapted from a BBC series...

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Bringing A Life…To Life (Phinphanatic.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:00:56 GMT

Imagine being given the task of telling a story. A real story. Imagine being given the task of telling the life story of someone you don’t personally know. Now, make it not only believable, but emotional and true. That is the very job that actor, director, and screenwriter Patrick Coyle has undertaken. He is the [...]

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'Trumbo' tells story of blacklisted writer (The Anniston Star Online)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:06:16 GMT

Dalton Trumbo's words — thunderous, eloquent, ribald and sometimes even tender — provide the spine and the substance of this documentary about the blacklisted screenwriter.

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Disjointed 'Contempt' will screen at DFT (Detroit Free Press)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:43:00 GMT

In 1963's "Contempt," Michel Piccoli plays Paul, a screenwriter asked to salvage an ill-fated production of "The Odyssey." Critics have since been connecting the dots between the film's lead character and its director, Jean-Luc Godard, engaged at the time in his own Homeric wrestling match with angry producers.

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Kimya Dawson Tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (Sound of the City)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:16:31 GMT

Kimya Dawson, "Loose Lips" (MP3) The venue's bigger (thanks, Juno !), and the crowd will likely skew younger, but let no one forget that Kimya Dawson was a local long before she helped make Diablo Cody famous. She is apparently unchanged by all the attention—her plans for a new, market-resistant suite of children’s songs, entitled Alphabutt , continue apace—and reportedly still ends most shows, no...

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'Trumbo' shines light on writer's powerful words (KOMO - News - Entertainment)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:31:21 GMT

Dalton Trumbo's words - thunderous, eloquent, ribald and sometimes even tender - provide the spine and substance of the documentary "Trumbo," about the blacklisted screenwriter.

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The dark writing of 'The Dark Knight' (Comics2Film)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:29:08 GMT

David Goyer wrote 2006’s “Batman Begins” in collaboration with writer-director Christopher Nolan. For this year’s sequel, “The Dark Knight,” Nolan brought in his brother Jonathan (author of “Memento” and screenwriter of “The Prestige”) to assist them in crafting the dark Batman tale.

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New On DVD: July 1st, 2008 (FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:54:17 GMT

By Joe Galm Vantage Point Distributor: Columbia Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Bruce McGill Director: Pete Travis Screenwriter: Barry L. Levy Producer: Neal H. Moritz Genre: Action/Suspense Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images and brief strong language. Running Time: 90 min. With Vantage Point ,...

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The Nines Director: Forget Sundance, Use P2P Instead (P2P Blog)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:48:20 GMT

John August, director of The Nines, has just published a lengthy article about his experience with the indie movie, including its Sundance screening, BitTorrent and the competitive art-house film scene. August made his name as a screenwriter for movies like Big Fish, Charlie's Angels and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The Nines was August's directorial debut and an unexpectedly significant...

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Superhero Movie (Gossip Blog)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:58:00 GMT

Enjoy aja ya video trailernya yang lucu, gw saranin jangan beli DVD-nya film ini banyak yang kasih review jelek abis. Kalo mau download aja torrentnya udah banyak koq versi DVD-nya. Release Date: March 28, 2008 Studio: Dimension Films (The Weinstein Company), MGM Director: Craig Mazin Screenwriter: Craig Mazin Starring: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Pamela Anderson, Tracy Morgan,...

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Who Wants to be a Screenwriter Now? (RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:11:35 GMT

If this is real it is classic

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Only A Screenwriter Could Have Left This (Deadline Hollywood Daily)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:11:38 GMT

This phone message is making the rounds of the Hollywood screenwriting community. Because "Dmitri" claims he's finishing a movie script. The back story on this is that a girl named Olga was out with her friends in the Marina district of San Francisco when she talked to this Dmitri for all of two minutes. Then she gave him [...]

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'Trumbo' Shines Light On Writer's Powerful Words (Starpulse News)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:35:50 GMT

It's a clever approach to a complicated man. Dalton Trumbo's words - thunderous, eloquent, ribald and sometimes even tender - provide the spine and substance of the documentary "Trumbo," about the blacklisted screenwriter.[...] Read more!

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Donald James Wheal: screenwriter and novelist (Times Online)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:17:15 GMT

Donald James Wheal, better known by his pen name, Donald James, was a prolific, best-selling author who began his career as one of a select band of screenwriters instrumental in shaping popular British television drama in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Trumbo (Gossip Central)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:36:22 GMT

Dalton Trumbo may have made his living as a screenwriter and novelist, but as a play as well as a new must-see documentary film make clear, Dalton Trumbo mastered a dying literary art as his career was stifled during the...

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