Flixist Awards 2011: Best Screenplay
Screenplays can be a weird entity. Though they are integral to a movie, some people can find it hard to understand just how ...
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt to make directoral debut
Deadline has broken the news that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, most recently seen in 50/50, will be taking a step behind the camera for ...
Ridley Scott eyeing Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor
In mid-January we mentioned that Cormac McCarthy sold his first spec script, The Counselor. Turns out he didn’t have to wait long before ...
Bret Easton Ellis doing noir for Paul Schrader & pornstar
Not too long ago, the magick of Twitter revealed that Kanye West was in talks to become creative director of the Jetsons movie. ...
Novelist Cormac McCarthy sells first spec script
Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s best living writers, taking up the torch of Melville and Faulkner with works like Blood Meridian, The ...
Just Cause adaptation has a writ–WHY?!
When I play videogames, I am willing to put up with a lot of stupid story elements. Even when I have no real ...
Charlie Kaufman’s Frank or Francis covers film blogging
The writer of the film that changed me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the director of the polarizing Synecdoche, New York is ...
Niki Caro to direct biopic about Maria Callas
You know that old stereotype about opera singers – that they’re all dramatic, talented prima donnas? Yeah, that’s Maria Callas. She’s the one ...
Last Exorcism sequel is a thing that is happening
Last year, The Last Exorcism raised some buzz for turning a $61 million profit on a $1.6 million budget film. Eli Roth’s name ...
Mirkwood, a novel about Tolkien, to be adapted to a movie
EMO films have struck a deal with author Steven Hillard to adapt his novel Mirkwood, a fictionalized version of famous Lord of the ...
Harry Potter director and writer set to adapt The Stand
I will say it now: The Stand is Stephen King’s best book. Or, the Complete and Uncut Edition is, anyway. It’s also one of ...
New UCSD study suggests audience prefers plot spoilers
A new study by Nicholas Christenfeld and Jonathan Leavitt of the UC San Diego psychology department suggests that a spoiled story might actually ...