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Why 'Borat 2' was nominated for best adapted screenplay at the Oscars and not original screenplay
"Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" was nominated for the best adapted screenplay Oscar at the 2021 Academ…
Jacob Sarkisian
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I get paid to read and score Hollywood screenplays for The Black List — here's how I got the job and why getting a low score isn't the end of the world
A script reader at script-hosting site The Black List says paying for a read is most valuable if yo…
Eboni Boykin-Patterson
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One By Two: Fragmented Storytelling Fails To Impress, Flops At Box Office
The movie has been released on January 31 and has hit about 500 screens across India. But unless it…
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Reddit's r/NoSleep is a special 'horror bubble' for internet writers that has born book deals and even a Steven Spielberg adaptation
The beauty of r/NoSleep is it can keep you awake at night in fear, but it's also one of the most fr…
Lindsay Dodgson
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The screenplay Oscar snub for 'I, Tonya' is especially harsh considering the screenwriter's journey to bring the story to life
It was around this time when Rogers realized how he could start over after watching the ESPN 30 for…
Jason Guerrasio
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Rita Moreno says she complimented Jessica Chastain's breasts when they first met
In Variety's "Actors on Actors" series, Moreno told Chastain: "As you were leaving, I said, 'I love…
Ayomikun Adekaiyero
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'Zola' writer Jeremy O. Harris says the movie's abrupt ending mirrors the dissolution of Zola and Stefani's friendship
"Zola" is adapted from stripper A'Ziah "Zola" King's viral 148-tweet thread about heading to Florid…
Debanjali Bose
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Jason Momoa reveals that he came up with the story for the 'Aquaman' sequel
Momoa said on "The Drew Barrymore Show" that he also helped write the first draft of the script for…
Jason Guerrasio
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Netflix's 'The Old Guard' writer explains the challenges of turning his comic into a movie and his 'in case of sequel, break glass' ending
Greg Rucka, who wrote Netflix's new action movie "The Old Guard" and cocreated the source material,…
Travis Clark
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'Green Book' writer apologizes for anti-Muslim tweet as the Oscar frontrunner continues to be rocked by controversy
"Green Book" follows "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer for night…
Travis Clark
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The producer of hits like 'Get Out' is making a movie about WeWork's dramatic rise and fall, with the writer of 'The Big Short'
Charles Randolph will write the script for the studio Universal and Blum's production company, Blum…
Travis Clark
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'Crazy Rich Asians' director says he stands with the writer who exited the sequel over a pay disparity dispute
Lim told The Hollywood Reporter, in a report published last week, that she walked away from the "Cr…
Travis Clark
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Ayushmann's Bala script changed from a Ganga pollution story to that of a bald man's struggles
But he was in "two minds" about the plot idea and it was after he met director Amar Kaushik, that m…
PTI
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The author of best-selling novel 'Room' was so confident it would be a hit movie she wrote the screenplay for it before the book was published
"Room" is an emotional tale filled with as much tension as warmth. It follows a 5-year-old boy and …
Jason Guerrasio
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Chetan Bhagat, What’s With All These Numbers?
A look at the numbers Chetan Bhagat puts in the titles of his books.
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A former 'Star Wars' writer came up with the name for the spinoff film
Whitta was originally hired to write a screenplay for the film along with director Gareth Edwards (…
Kirsten Acuna
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This chart shows how many Stephen King stories have been adapted for the big screen - and how many more Hollywood has left to go
King's website also lists the various TV, movie, and other video projects he's worked on over the y…
Andy Kiersz
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'Toy Story 4' will not be a sequel to the third film
We will have the third table reading. Usually, after working on the idea with the story team and th…
Kirsten Acuna
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Rashida Jones says she left 'Toy Story 4' because of a lack of diverse voices, not an unwanted advance from Pixar chief
"There is so much talent at Pixar and we remain enormous fans of their films. But it is also a cult…
Carrie Wittmer
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The surprising story of how Andy Weir's self-published book 'The Martian' topped best seller lists and got a movie deal
You only need to get a couple pages into "The Martian" before it becomes clear that Weir did exhaus…