Found these beautiful pictures of a young and handsome Leslie Nielsen. We will miss him.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
DELPHINE CHANEAC
Exclusive: Christopher Nolan On Zimmer
Among Inception's many wonders, from Christopher Nolan's labyrinthine plotting to those extraordinary folding citiscapes, Hans Zimmer's epic score has often gone unmentioned. No longer! Here, to mention it in person, are Zimmer and Nolan, offering an intriguing glimpse of their work together.
Brimming with soaring soundscapes and brooding menace, the score took Zimmer in a more electronic direction than his previous Nolan collaborations, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and further building his partnership with the filmmaker. It also boasts the prodigious talents of ex-Smith Johnny Marr, a big win in anyone's book.
Interestingly, Zimmer wrote the music sight-unseen. Nolan, as he explains here, prefers his composer to work from the script alone, a strategy that paid off with one of the best scores of 2010. We're filing their partnership in our handy 'More reasons to get excited about The Dark Knight Rises' file.
Phil de Semlyen
SOURCE and VIDEO: http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=29579
Brimming with soaring soundscapes and brooding menace, the score took Zimmer in a more electronic direction than his previous Nolan collaborations, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and further building his partnership with the filmmaker. It also boasts the prodigious talents of ex-Smith Johnny Marr, a big win in anyone's book.
Interestingly, Zimmer wrote the music sight-unseen. Nolan, as he explains here, prefers his composer to work from the script alone, a strategy that paid off with one of the best scores of 2010. We're filing their partnership in our handy 'More reasons to get excited about The Dark Knight Rises' file.
Phil de Semlyen
SOURCE and VIDEO: http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=29579
New photo of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe released
From My Week With Marilyn
By Matt Maytum | Nov 27th 2010
Michelle Williams is currently filming her role as Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn, and The Daily Mail have a new snap from the movie.
The film focuses on the legendary actress's relationship with Colin Clark, an Oxford grad she met on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl.
Eddie Redmayne is playing Clark, and Kenneth Branagh will be doing his best Sir Laurence Olivier impersonation. There are also roles for Dominic Copper and a post-Potter Emma Watson.
Williams' likeness to Monroe is uncanny, and we know she's got the acting chops to handle such a potentially challenging role. Perhaps this will be her chance to finally take home a little gold man, as this is sure to attract awards-glare.
This biopic is one of many competing Monroe projects, including Andrew Dominik's Blonde, which is set to star Naomi Watts.
Source: The Daily Mail and Total Film.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Bonne fête aux Delphines
Bonne fête à Delphine Chanéac que j'ai beaucoup apprécié dans Splice et à deux amies très spéciales.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Very interesting article on Gwyneth Paltrow's website
Check it out, Vitamin D Deficiency
http://goop.com/newsletter/88/en/
I suffered a pretty severe Tibial plateau fracture a few years ago (requiring surgery) which lead the orthopaedic surgeon to give me a bone scan, at which point it was discovered I had the beginning stages of osteopenia. This led my western/eastern doctors in New York to test my Vitamin D levels, which turned out to be the lowest they had ever seen (not a good thing). I went on a prescription strength level of Vitamin D and was told to…spend a bit of time in the sun! I was curious if this was safe, having been told for years to stay away ...
Article continues on:
http://goop.com/newsletter/88/en/
http://goop.com/newsletter/88/en/
I suffered a pretty severe Tibial plateau fracture a few years ago (requiring surgery) which lead the orthopaedic surgeon to give me a bone scan, at which point it was discovered I had the beginning stages of osteopenia. This led my western/eastern doctors in New York to test my Vitamin D levels, which turned out to be the lowest they had ever seen (not a good thing). I went on a prescription strength level of Vitamin D and was told to…spend a bit of time in the sun! I was curious if this was safe, having been told for years to stay away ...
Article continues on:
http://goop.com/newsletter/88/en/
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Basic Black
With cool weather moving in, we want to stay warm but look stylish at the same time. From day to night, you can never go wrong with a classic black outfit, that is if you play it by the rules. It's important to vary textures, and pay more attention to the details.
Let's spy on Olivia, the master of mixing up different textures. Olivia shows us how to make an all black outfit interesting and chic. She makes this timeless style rock, at every occasion: it looks professional at work, comfortable during shopping, and stylish at a dinner. Most of the time, she goes for gold jewelry. To add even more glamour, she wears sunglasses or a (faux) fur scarf with it.
At night, Olivia likes to put on a timeless black dress. She injects a pop of color into her outfit through the accessories. The all black outfit really draws attention to spectacular shoes or an amazing clutch. At a gala event, she keeps all the eyes on the dress by pulling her hair back, and to add a bit of mystery she wears a smokey eye.
Please tell me what your favorite day or night-time outfit is!
Let's spy on Olivia, the master of mixing up different textures. Olivia shows us how to make an all black outfit interesting and chic. She makes this timeless style rock, at every occasion: it looks professional at work, comfortable during shopping, and stylish at a dinner. Most of the time, she goes for gold jewelry. To add even more glamour, she wears sunglasses or a (faux) fur scarf with it.
At night, Olivia likes to put on a timeless black dress. She injects a pop of color into her outfit through the accessories. The all black outfit really draws attention to spectacular shoes or an amazing clutch. At a gala event, she keeps all the eyes on the dress by pulling her hair back, and to add a bit of mystery she wears a smokey eye.
Please tell me what your favorite day or night-time outfit is!Friday, November 19, 2010
Red Riding Hood (2011) - Trailer (HD)
First teaser trailer for "red riding hood", i've read the script a few weeks ago, and really enjoyed it. The first images look very promising.
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| Red riding hood first poster |
Thursday, November 18, 2010
THE FACE: SCREENPLAY COMPLETED
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Stem Cells Used to Fight Woman's Brain Tumor
Ben Tracy Speaks Exclusively to the 1st Patient to Have Stem Cells Injected Into Her Brain to Fight a Tumor
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SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/11/eveningnews/main7046248.shtml
(CBS) Doctors injected stem cells into a woman's brain, hoping they'll fight her cancer. Close to 23,000 Americans are diagnosed with brain cancer each year and more than half that number die. Some pioneering research may be changing that.
In California Wednesday that woman made medical history, the first human being to have stem cells injected into her brain to try to cure cancer. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy met this pioneer patient and has an exclusive look at this ground-breaking procedure.
Jenn Vonckx has been leaning on her family a lot lately. Just three weeks ago doctors in her hometown of Seattle, Wash., told her there was nothing more they could do to treat the tumor in her brain. They gave her two months to live.
"It's a short time when they tell you that - wow - you wouldn't even believe how short it feels," says Vonckx.
She didn't know that near Los Angeles, Dr. Karen Aboody has been working on a revolutionary new cancer treatment for the very worst brain tumors called glioblastomas, the same kind Vonckx has.
These types of tumors are so invasive that until now there's been no way to get large enough amounts of chemotherapy through the blood-brain barrier. With stem cells researchers now think they've found a way.
Ten million neural stem cells with a special enzyme are injected into the brain. The stem cells seek out and attach themselves to the tumors. The patient then takes a pill containing a non-toxic drug that enters the brain. When the drug interacts with the enzyme in the stem cells, it instantaneously creates an active chemotherapy drug. The hope is that chemo will kill the tumors and leave healthy brain tissue alone.
"The chemotherapy is never going toxic all over the body. It's just being made where the tumor cells are, so in that case we should have a lot less side effect," says Aboody.
It's worked in mice but never been tried on a human until this week. Vonckx is patient no. 1.
"First in the world?" she says. "I would prefer that there have been a few people going through it before me."
But Wednesday on the morning of her surgery she is ready. Her family says goodbye and over the course of the four-hour procedure those 10 million stem cells are sent into her brain to try to fix it. It will be months before doctors know if it works.
"It's like the first step on the moon and it would just be the beginning," says Aboody.
Vonckx has some smaller steps in mind, completing a 75-mile walk around Seattle.
"I will crawl it if I have to," she says.
And she may also be giving thousands of people with brain tumors a reason to move forward and to hope.
©MMX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Font size Print E-mail Share 27 Comments By Ben Tracy
SOURCE: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/11/eveningnews/main7046248.shtml
(CBS) Doctors injected stem cells into a woman's brain, hoping they'll fight her cancer. Close to 23,000 Americans are diagnosed with brain cancer each year and more than half that number die. Some pioneering research may be changing that.
In California Wednesday that woman made medical history, the first human being to have stem cells injected into her brain to try to cure cancer. CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy met this pioneer patient and has an exclusive look at this ground-breaking procedure.
Jenn Vonckx has been leaning on her family a lot lately. Just three weeks ago doctors in her hometown of Seattle, Wash., told her there was nothing more they could do to treat the tumor in her brain. They gave her two months to live.
"It's a short time when they tell you that - wow - you wouldn't even believe how short it feels," says Vonckx.
She didn't know that near Los Angeles, Dr. Karen Aboody has been working on a revolutionary new cancer treatment for the very worst brain tumors called glioblastomas, the same kind Vonckx has.
These types of tumors are so invasive that until now there's been no way to get large enough amounts of chemotherapy through the blood-brain barrier. With stem cells researchers now think they've found a way.
Ten million neural stem cells with a special enzyme are injected into the brain. The stem cells seek out and attach themselves to the tumors. The patient then takes a pill containing a non-toxic drug that enters the brain. When the drug interacts with the enzyme in the stem cells, it instantaneously creates an active chemotherapy drug. The hope is that chemo will kill the tumors and leave healthy brain tissue alone.
"The chemotherapy is never going toxic all over the body. It's just being made where the tumor cells are, so in that case we should have a lot less side effect," says Aboody.
It's worked in mice but never been tried on a human until this week. Vonckx is patient no. 1.
"First in the world?" she says. "I would prefer that there have been a few people going through it before me."
But Wednesday on the morning of her surgery she is ready. Her family says goodbye and over the course of the four-hour procedure those 10 million stem cells are sent into her brain to try to fix it. It will be months before doctors know if it works.
"It's like the first step on the moon and it would just be the beginning," says Aboody.
Vonckx has some smaller steps in mind, completing a 75-mile walk around Seattle.
"I will crawl it if I have to," she says.
And she may also be giving thousands of people with brain tumors a reason to move forward and to hope.
©MMX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Check out this actress
www.dailymotion.com/video/xau3ml_alexandra-oneil-dans-le-film-la-cle_creation
Check out actress Alexandra O'neil in french movie La Clef sur la porte. (the woman with the baby) She's beautiful, talented, extremely nice and also a fabulous painter.
Regardez la video de l'actrice Alexandra O'neil dans le film français la clef sur la porte (c'est la femme avec le bébé) elle est belle, elle a du talent, elle est adorable et c'est également un paintre de talent.
Check out actress Alexandra O'neil in french movie La Clef sur la porte. (the woman with the baby) She's beautiful, talented, extremely nice and also a fabulous painter.
Regardez la video de l'actrice Alexandra O'neil dans le film français la clef sur la porte (c'est la femme avec le bébé) elle est belle, elle a du talent, elle est adorable et c'est également un paintre de talent.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
WANT THE SECRET TO PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY? FOLLOW ME…
My new science fiction screenplay «THE FACE » will be finished in December. As some of you may already know, it takes place in a near future, during a time called « the golden age », in a society called INFINITY, where death does not exist anymore. (actually I still don’t know if I’ll be keeping the title the face or opt for infinity, the face is more related to the thriller plot of the script and infinity is the world that sums up it all)
In the script I reveal the step by step method to physical immortality, based on real scientific facts and two major ELEMENTS:
NANOROBOTS AND STEM CELLS
Nanobots combined with stem cells are the key to this physical immortality…It’s not science fiction! It’s here, it’s NOW! Nanorobots transporting stem cells, are injected through the human body and will repair all damaged tissues, dying cells, continually.
There’s been a very well orchestrated disinformation regarding these NANOROBOTS, (in the scientific magazines of course, but also on the internet) so well that some people don’t know if they are projects, or reality…Actually, they’ve been existing since DECADES and used for military tasks. Of course, this advanced technology is been hidden by the political leaders and religious leaders (as well as some accomplice scientists and doctors) GUILTY OF A GENOCIDE and I’m weighing my words.
For the anxious (or brainwashed) ones among my readers, be aware that I’m not talking about turning a human being into a robot: Nano robots are at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer (10-9 meters). Approximately the size of our own cells! They won’t make you anything else but human beings, but human beings who won’t age, suffer illness and HUMAN BEINGS WHO WON’T DIE, or see the people they love dying around them (for the ones like me, who have experienced this before, who know what I mean, it‘s unbearable you can‘t live with it, it haunts you everyday) . Human beings who won’t suffer the intolerable: living in a society where death exists! A society and a time called « the dark ages » in my script.
Now, be aware that all people dying at present time, all people who’ve seen dying around you during the past decades all have been the victims of a GENOCIDE!
What would you do to save your loved ones from death? Your children for instance? Your parents?
Well, the current political and religious leaders are the NAZIS and YOU ARE prisoners in a DEATH CAMP!
Maybe it’s time to revolt, and EXPOSE THE TRUTH! And create INFINITY for real! There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.
In the script I reveal the step by step method to physical immortality, based on real scientific facts and two major ELEMENTS:
NANOROBOTS AND STEM CELLS
Nanobots combined with stem cells are the key to this physical immortality…It’s not science fiction! It’s here, it’s NOW! Nanorobots transporting stem cells, are injected through the human body and will repair all damaged tissues, dying cells, continually.
There’s been a very well orchestrated disinformation regarding these NANOROBOTS, (in the scientific magazines of course, but also on the internet) so well that some people don’t know if they are projects, or reality…Actually, they’ve been existing since DECADES and used for military tasks. Of course, this advanced technology is been hidden by the political leaders and religious leaders (as well as some accomplice scientists and doctors) GUILTY OF A GENOCIDE and I’m weighing my words.
For the anxious (or brainwashed) ones among my readers, be aware that I’m not talking about turning a human being into a robot: Nano robots are at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer (10-9 meters). Approximately the size of our own cells! They won’t make you anything else but human beings, but human beings who won’t age, suffer illness and HUMAN BEINGS WHO WON’T DIE, or see the people they love dying around them (for the ones like me, who have experienced this before, who know what I mean, it‘s unbearable you can‘t live with it, it haunts you everyday) . Human beings who won’t suffer the intolerable: living in a society where death exists! A society and a time called « the dark ages » in my script.
Now, be aware that all people dying at present time, all people who’ve seen dying around you during the past decades all have been the victims of a GENOCIDE!
What would you do to save your loved ones from death? Your children for instance? Your parents?
Well, the current political and religious leaders are the NAZIS and YOU ARE prisoners in a DEATH CAMP!
Maybe it’s time to revolt, and EXPOSE THE TRUTH! And create INFINITY for real! There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.
Nanobots replacing neurons
Wanted to share this video with you, please go to its youtube page and READ THE COMMENTS!!! OPEN YOUR EYES NOW it's not too late!
Six Actresses in Talks for The Dark Knight Rises | WorstPreviews.com
Six Actresses in Talks for The Dark Knight Rises WorstPreviews.com
Deadline is reporting that Christopher Nolan is now meeting with actresses for the female lead roles in "The Dark Knight Rises," the third installment in his Batman franchise.
The actresses are Rachel Weisz (The Lovely Bones), Naomi Watts (King Kong), Blake Lively (Green Lantern), Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta), Anne Hathaway (Get Smart) and Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean). The roles include a new love interest for Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and a villain.
Tom Hardy (Inception) is already on board, likely as a villain. The site assumes that he took the role without having a chance to read the script. "The Dark Knight Rises" is scheduled to hit theaters on July 20th, 2012.
Source: Deadline
Read more: http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=19682#ixzz153zlFm9X
(Personally I hope Christopher Nolan pick up Naomi Watts)
Deadline is reporting that Christopher Nolan is now meeting with actresses for the female lead roles in "The Dark Knight Rises," the third installment in his Batman franchise.
The actresses are Rachel Weisz (The Lovely Bones), Naomi Watts (King Kong), Blake Lively (Green Lantern), Natalie Portman (V for Vendetta), Anne Hathaway (Get Smart) and Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean). The roles include a new love interest for Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and a villain.
Tom Hardy (Inception) is already on board, likely as a villain. The site assumes that he took the role without having a chance to read the script. "The Dark Knight Rises" is scheduled to hit theaters on July 20th, 2012.
Source: Deadline
Read more: http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=19682#ixzz153zlFm9X
(Personally I hope Christopher Nolan pick up Naomi Watts)
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Read screenplays
A good way to improve your screenwriting skills is reading produced screenplays. Here are a few links to the best websites hosting screenplays in pdf format.
Enjoy your journey in the screenwriting world
http://screenplayexplorer.com/
http://simplyscripts.com/
www.screenplaydb.com
http://www.sfy.ru/
www.mypdfscripts.com
www.joblo.com/moviescripts.php
http://www.awesomefilm.com/
http://www.dailyscript.com/
Enjoy your journey in the screenwriting world
http://screenplayexplorer.com/
http://simplyscripts.com/
www.screenplaydb.com
http://www.sfy.ru/
www.mypdfscripts.com
www.joblo.com/moviescripts.php
http://www.awesomefilm.com/
http://www.dailyscript.com/
Raiponce - Trailer 01 VO [HD 1080P]
Wanted to share this beautiful trailer. "Raiponce "was one of the fairy tales my mother used to read me before sleeping when I was a small child, (a blond little girl like Raiponce) a very good recollection. I also believe this tale is responsible for my obsession with long hairs, as a matter of fact, I've always wear my hairs long!
LOSS OF A LEGENDARY PRODUCER: DINO DE LAURENTIIS
Sad to learn Mr. Dino De Laurentiis has left us. His company has been one of the very first ones to send me their encouragements, when I submitted a screenplay to them a few years ago- it was one my very first horror screenplay- and he has produced the movie behind my passion for cinema: King Kong starring Jessica Lange. Actually, I would probably not have been a screenwriter without him.
Respectfully, Jordan.
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Film Producer Dino de Laurentiis Dies in Los Angeles, Ansa Says
November 11, 2010, 7:22 AM EST
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Dino De Laurentiis, the son of Italian pasta makers who became a prolific movie producer of blockbuster hits such as “Serpico,” expensive duds such as “Dune” and sweeping epics including “War and Peace,” has died, Ansa news agency reported. He was 91.
He died in Los Angeles, Ansa reported. De Laurentiis lived in Beverly Hills with his third wife, Martha.
First in his native Italy, then in the U.S., De Laurentiis combined marketing flair, an eye for talent and a fearlessness of failure as he produced more than 600 films, some prodigious in scale and ambition, often featuring superstar names in action thrillers.
He worked with, among many others, directors Federico Fellini and Milos Forman and actors Al Pacino, Audrey Hepburn and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who credited De Laurentiis’s “Conan” movies with making him an international superstar.
The tumult of his personal life rivaled the action in his movie scripts. He had four children with Italian model-turned- actress Silvana Mangano, who died in 1989 shortly after their divorce became final, then two more daughters with third wife Martha, the youngest one born when De Laurentiis was 71.
His only son, Federico, died in a 1981 plane crash while making a documentary about salmon fishing. One of De Laurentiis’s grandchildren, Giada, is a celebrity chef on U.S. television.
De Laurentiis earned much of his critical acclaim early in his career. Two films he produced during a seven-year collaboration with fellow Italian Carlo Ponti -- “La Strada,” which Fellini directed, and “Nights of Cabiria” -- won back- to-back Academy Awards for best foreign-language film in 1956 and 1957.
Oscar for Work
Decades passed before the academy again honored De Laurentiis, presenting him with the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 2001 for his body of work.
“I’ve been very lucky in my long life,” De Laurentiis said upon receiving the award. “On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I’ve had the privilege of working with the cinema’s greatest masters.”
Small in stature (various accounts gave his height as either 5 feet 4 inches or 5 feet 6 inches), De Laurentiis made a giant impact on how the movie industry stages, promotes and finances big-budget, big-name spectacles. Rather than work for Hollywood studios, he sold his productions directly to distributors in the U.S. and around the world.
‘Event’ Films
That made De Laurentiis one of the first “global film producers, savvy about their international audience and raising money all over the world in order to make ‘event’ films,” Brooklyn College professor Frederick Wasser wrote in the 2002 book “Movies and American Society.”
In the 1980s De Laurentiis briefly turned his attention to improving the American culinary experience, opening food stores in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Their lavish displays of breads, pastas and cold cuts drew crowds of sightseers, but the stores closed within a few years.
Impressed by the serenity of coastal North Carolina during filming of Stephen King’s “Firestarter” in 1983, De Laurentiis built what later became the EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington. He seemed on his way to assembling an entertainment conglomerate when he acquired Embassy Pictures from Coca-Cola Co., formed the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and, in 1986, took the company public.
Big-Budget Flops
A series of big-budget disappointments, including David Lynch’s sci-fi thriller “Dune” (1984), led to a financial crisis, and the Beverly Hills, California-based film company filed for bankruptcy protection in 1988. De Laurentiis stepped aside as chairman and his daughter, Raffaella, resigned as president of production.
He never stopped producing movies, however. He ran Dino De Laurentiis Co. with his wife, the former Martha Schumacher, a one-time administrative assistant in his New York offices. Among its productions was the hit “Hannibal” (2001).
“Making movies is all about instinct,” he said in a 2001 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Nobody taught Picasso how to paint -- he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can’t learn what’s right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.”
Agostino De Laurentiis, the third of seven children, was born on Aug. 8, 1919, in Torre Annunziata, near Naples. His parents ran a pasta factory.
Pasta Salesman
Deciding that the life of a traveling pasta salesman wasn’t for him, De Laurentiis won his father’s permission to study acting at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He shortened his name to Dino in his early 20s when he entered the movie business.
“If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it,” he recalled in interviews for the 2004 book “Dino: The Life and Times of Dino De Laurentiis.”
He had just broken into Italy’s film business -- working as a stagehand, extra, director’s assistant, and finally director of production -- when he was called to military service in 1943 during the final weeks of Benito Mussolini’s dictatorship. He said he retreated with other deserters, avoiding German troops, until Allied troops secured Italy. Back in Rome in 1944, he got busy reviving his film career, and Italy’s film industry.
He founded Dino De Laurentiis Studios in 1947 and had quick success with “Bitter Rice” (1949), which was nominated in the U.S. for an Academy Award for best picture. It was on that set that he met Mangano, a teenage model breaking into acting. They would marry in 1949.
Career Epics
In the 1950s he began work on the epics that would help define his career. With Ponti he produced “Ulysses” (1954), with Mangano and Kirk Douglas, and “War and Peace” (1956), with Hepburn and Henry Fonda, which was nominated for Academy Awards for cinematography, costume design and best director (King Vidor).
In 1962, De Laurentiis bought land in Rome and started work, with government subsidies, on what would become Dinocitta --“Dino City” -- a sprawling production studio that opened in 1964 and was patterned after Cinecitta, the studio founded by Mussolini. Among the movies he made there was “Barbarella” (1968), the science-fiction film that featured Jane Fonda in various states of erotic dress, and undress.
Dino’s city didn’t stand for long. By the early 1970s De Laurentiis was chafing at the Italian government’s demands that films have Italian directors and predominantly Italian casts. Meantime, the Italian film industry was in a downturn, and Dinocitta was losing money each year.
De Laurentiis decamped with his family to New York and found immediate success with a trio of hit law-and-order movies: “Serpico” (1973) starring Pacino; “Death Wish” (1974) starring Charles Bronson; and “Three Days of the Condor” (1975), with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. He would become a U.S. citizen in 1986.
De Laurentiis heaped praise on the U.S. before and after making it his home. “In Italy, contrary to the way it is in the United States, a man who works hard and tries to do something becomes a target for animosity,” he said in a 1965 interview with the New Yorker magazine. “In the United States, such a man is appreciated.”
‘Only Mistake’
In the 1970s he told New York magazine that building Dinocitta in Rome “was the only mistake I’ve made in my life. If I had built it in New York, it would have been fantastic.” The magazine reported that shuttering Dinocitta had left De Laurentiis several million dollars in debt, a gap he easily closed with earnings in the first 18 months of producing movies in the U.S.
Inspired by the success of the 1975 hit “Jaws,” De Laurentiis embarked on a $25 million remake of the 1933 movie “King Kong,” giving the starring role to a model and first- time actress, Jessica Lange.
The 1976 movie was a box office success and won an Academy Award for visual effects, but left critics mostly unimpressed. “A series of big, foolish but entertaining spectacle scenes,” Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.
“Conan the Barbarian” (1982), marked the acting breakthrough of Schwarzenegger, the Austrian bodybuilder who years later became governor of California. “It was your Conan movies that launched my international career,” Schwarzenegger wrote to De Laurentiis on his 80th birthday, according to the 2004 biography of the filmmaker.
In 2001, at 82, De Laurentiis showed he could still make hits when he combined with director Ridley Scott and actor Anthony Hopkins on “Hannibal,” the smash sequel to the 1991 hit “The Silence of the Lambs.” He followed that in 2007 with “Hannibal Rising.”
De Laurentiis’s brief first marriage, in Italy the 1940s, was annulled. Raffaella, one of his four children with Mangano, was executive producer of the 2004 movie “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.”
SOURCE: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-11/film-producer-dino-de-laurentiis-dies-in-los-angeles-ansa-says.html
Respectfully, Jordan.
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Film Producer Dino de Laurentiis Dies in Los Angeles, Ansa Says
November 11, 2010, 7:22 AM EST
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Dino De Laurentiis, the son of Italian pasta makers who became a prolific movie producer of blockbuster hits such as “Serpico,” expensive duds such as “Dune” and sweeping epics including “War and Peace,” has died, Ansa news agency reported. He was 91.
He died in Los Angeles, Ansa reported. De Laurentiis lived in Beverly Hills with his third wife, Martha.
First in his native Italy, then in the U.S., De Laurentiis combined marketing flair, an eye for talent and a fearlessness of failure as he produced more than 600 films, some prodigious in scale and ambition, often featuring superstar names in action thrillers.
He worked with, among many others, directors Federico Fellini and Milos Forman and actors Al Pacino, Audrey Hepburn and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who credited De Laurentiis’s “Conan” movies with making him an international superstar.
The tumult of his personal life rivaled the action in his movie scripts. He had four children with Italian model-turned- actress Silvana Mangano, who died in 1989 shortly after their divorce became final, then two more daughters with third wife Martha, the youngest one born when De Laurentiis was 71.
His only son, Federico, died in a 1981 plane crash while making a documentary about salmon fishing. One of De Laurentiis’s grandchildren, Giada, is a celebrity chef on U.S. television.
De Laurentiis earned much of his critical acclaim early in his career. Two films he produced during a seven-year collaboration with fellow Italian Carlo Ponti -- “La Strada,” which Fellini directed, and “Nights of Cabiria” -- won back- to-back Academy Awards for best foreign-language film in 1956 and 1957.
Oscar for Work
Decades passed before the academy again honored De Laurentiis, presenting him with the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 2001 for his body of work.
“I’ve been very lucky in my long life,” De Laurentiis said upon receiving the award. “On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I’ve had the privilege of working with the cinema’s greatest masters.”
Small in stature (various accounts gave his height as either 5 feet 4 inches or 5 feet 6 inches), De Laurentiis made a giant impact on how the movie industry stages, promotes and finances big-budget, big-name spectacles. Rather than work for Hollywood studios, he sold his productions directly to distributors in the U.S. and around the world.
‘Event’ Films
That made De Laurentiis one of the first “global film producers, savvy about their international audience and raising money all over the world in order to make ‘event’ films,” Brooklyn College professor Frederick Wasser wrote in the 2002 book “Movies and American Society.”
In the 1980s De Laurentiis briefly turned his attention to improving the American culinary experience, opening food stores in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Their lavish displays of breads, pastas and cold cuts drew crowds of sightseers, but the stores closed within a few years.
Impressed by the serenity of coastal North Carolina during filming of Stephen King’s “Firestarter” in 1983, De Laurentiis built what later became the EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington. He seemed on his way to assembling an entertainment conglomerate when he acquired Embassy Pictures from Coca-Cola Co., formed the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and, in 1986, took the company public.
Big-Budget Flops
A series of big-budget disappointments, including David Lynch’s sci-fi thriller “Dune” (1984), led to a financial crisis, and the Beverly Hills, California-based film company filed for bankruptcy protection in 1988. De Laurentiis stepped aside as chairman and his daughter, Raffaella, resigned as president of production.
He never stopped producing movies, however. He ran Dino De Laurentiis Co. with his wife, the former Martha Schumacher, a one-time administrative assistant in his New York offices. Among its productions was the hit “Hannibal” (2001).
“Making movies is all about instinct,” he said in a 2001 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Nobody taught Picasso how to paint -- he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can’t learn what’s right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.”
Agostino De Laurentiis, the third of seven children, was born on Aug. 8, 1919, in Torre Annunziata, near Naples. His parents ran a pasta factory.
Pasta Salesman
Deciding that the life of a traveling pasta salesman wasn’t for him, De Laurentiis won his father’s permission to study acting at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He shortened his name to Dino in his early 20s when he entered the movie business.
“If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it,” he recalled in interviews for the 2004 book “Dino: The Life and Times of Dino De Laurentiis.”
He had just broken into Italy’s film business -- working as a stagehand, extra, director’s assistant, and finally director of production -- when he was called to military service in 1943 during the final weeks of Benito Mussolini’s dictatorship. He said he retreated with other deserters, avoiding German troops, until Allied troops secured Italy. Back in Rome in 1944, he got busy reviving his film career, and Italy’s film industry.
He founded Dino De Laurentiis Studios in 1947 and had quick success with “Bitter Rice” (1949), which was nominated in the U.S. for an Academy Award for best picture. It was on that set that he met Mangano, a teenage model breaking into acting. They would marry in 1949.
Career Epics
In the 1950s he began work on the epics that would help define his career. With Ponti he produced “Ulysses” (1954), with Mangano and Kirk Douglas, and “War and Peace” (1956), with Hepburn and Henry Fonda, which was nominated for Academy Awards for cinematography, costume design and best director (King Vidor).
In 1962, De Laurentiis bought land in Rome and started work, with government subsidies, on what would become Dinocitta --“Dino City” -- a sprawling production studio that opened in 1964 and was patterned after Cinecitta, the studio founded by Mussolini. Among the movies he made there was “Barbarella” (1968), the science-fiction film that featured Jane Fonda in various states of erotic dress, and undress.
Dino’s city didn’t stand for long. By the early 1970s De Laurentiis was chafing at the Italian government’s demands that films have Italian directors and predominantly Italian casts. Meantime, the Italian film industry was in a downturn, and Dinocitta was losing money each year.
De Laurentiis decamped with his family to New York and found immediate success with a trio of hit law-and-order movies: “Serpico” (1973) starring Pacino; “Death Wish” (1974) starring Charles Bronson; and “Three Days of the Condor” (1975), with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. He would become a U.S. citizen in 1986.
De Laurentiis heaped praise on the U.S. before and after making it his home. “In Italy, contrary to the way it is in the United States, a man who works hard and tries to do something becomes a target for animosity,” he said in a 1965 interview with the New Yorker magazine. “In the United States, such a man is appreciated.”
‘Only Mistake’
In the 1970s he told New York magazine that building Dinocitta in Rome “was the only mistake I’ve made in my life. If I had built it in New York, it would have been fantastic.” The magazine reported that shuttering Dinocitta had left De Laurentiis several million dollars in debt, a gap he easily closed with earnings in the first 18 months of producing movies in the U.S.
Inspired by the success of the 1975 hit “Jaws,” De Laurentiis embarked on a $25 million remake of the 1933 movie “King Kong,” giving the starring role to a model and first- time actress, Jessica Lange.
The 1976 movie was a box office success and won an Academy Award for visual effects, but left critics mostly unimpressed. “A series of big, foolish but entertaining spectacle scenes,” Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.
“Conan the Barbarian” (1982), marked the acting breakthrough of Schwarzenegger, the Austrian bodybuilder who years later became governor of California. “It was your Conan movies that launched my international career,” Schwarzenegger wrote to De Laurentiis on his 80th birthday, according to the 2004 biography of the filmmaker.
In 2001, at 82, De Laurentiis showed he could still make hits when he combined with director Ridley Scott and actor Anthony Hopkins on “Hannibal,” the smash sequel to the 1991 hit “The Silence of the Lambs.” He followed that in 2007 with “Hannibal Rising.”
De Laurentiis’s brief first marriage, in Italy the 1940s, was annulled. Raffaella, one of his four children with Mangano, was executive producer of the 2004 movie “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.”
SOURCE: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-11/film-producer-dino-de-laurentiis-dies-in-los-angeles-ansa-says.html
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
LATEST SCREENPLAYS SALES IN HOLLYWOOD: NOVEMBER 2010
Here are the latest screenplays sales for November of 2010. The titles in the bold are the ones I’m planning to watch.
Title: Downers Grove
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story revolves around a cursed high school in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. At the end of each school year, one senior dies in a bizarre death.
Writer: Michael Hornberg, Bret Easton Ellis
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
More: Hayden Panettiere, Rebecca De Mornay and Nikki Reed attached to star. Bret Easton Ellis adapted Michael Hornberg's novel. Nelson McCormick attached to direct.
Title: Innocence
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story about a family doctor accused of raping two young girls.
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Pitch
More: Jan Hrebejk attached to direct. Ana Geislerova attached to star.
Title: Agnosia
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Set in 1899, a heiress has been bequeathed with vital industrial secrets. But she suffers a brain condition, Agnosia, which prevents her from correctly understanding what she sees.
Writer: Antonio Trashorras
Genre: Thriller , Period
Saletype: Script
More: Eugenio Mira directed film. Barbara Goenaga, Eduardo Noriega and Martina Gedeck star in film.
Title: Zebras
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: The true-life tale of a music producer who discovers talented young soccer players in the ghettos of Soweto, South Africa, and forms them into a successful team dubbed the Zebras, because it brings together black and white players.
Writer: David Williamson
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
More: Ryan Kwanten and Camilla Belle attached to star. Bruce Beresford attached to direct.
Title: Eliza Graves
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a Harvard Medical School graduate who takes a job at an insane asylum, unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants.
Writer: Edgar Allan Poe, Joe Gangemi
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script , Short Story , Adaptation
More: Oren Peli attached to direct. Joe Gangemi adapted Edgar Allan Poe's short story.
Title: Bunker
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: The story of a maestro with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra who begins to doubt his girlfriend's fidelity, only to discover that she's disappeared. He finds solace in his music and a beautiful waitress as questions begin to surface about the disappearance of his other love.
Writer: Andi Baiz, Hatem Khraiche Ruiz-Zorrilla
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Quim Gutierrez, Clara Lago and Martina Garcia attached to star. Andi Baiz attached to direct.
Title: Dark Shadows
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: Gothic soap opera about supernatural beings' everyday lives.
Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith
Genre: Supernatural , Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Johnny Depp attached to star. Tim Burton attached to direct.
Title: Wrecked
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: A man wakes up in a car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff, having no memory of who he is or how he got there, leaving him forced to discover his true identity.
Writer: Christopher Dodd
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Michael Greenspan directed film. Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas and Ryan Robbins star in film.
Title: Shadowland
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: Story follows two young boys who spend a summer with a famous magician, who teaches them more than just harmless tricks but real sorcery.
Writer: Peter Straub, Larry Leahy, Benjamin Straub
Genre: Horror
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
More: Jackson Rathbone and Bill Nighy attached to star. Erik Canuel attached to direct. Larry Leahy and Benjamin Straub will adapt Peter Straub's novel.
Title: The Whistleblower
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: A Nebraskan police officer takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and finds her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue
Writer: Ellis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
More: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn star in film. Larysa Kondracki directed film.
Title: Jack Falls
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: Story follows an undercover police officer who returns to London to seek revenge and settle some scores with former criminals and police colleagues.
Writer: Paul Tanter, Alexander Williams
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Comic , Adaptation
More: Tamer Hassan, Jason Flemying, Simon Phillips, Alan Ford, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Kemp star in film. Paul Tanter and Alexander Williams directed film and adapted script.
Title: The Expatriate
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: A former CIA agent hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He moves to Belgium to take work as a security expert and one day discovers that his colleagues have mysteriously vanished and a trained operative is intent on killing both him and his daughter.
Writer: A.E. Amel
Genre: Thriller , Action , Suspense
Saletype: Script
More: Aaron Eckhart attached to star. Phillip Stolzl attached to direct.
Title: Tracker
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: A former Boer War guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a Brit soldier.
Writer: Nicolas van Pallandt
Genre: Thriller , Action , Suspense
Saletype: Script
More: Ray Winstone stars in film. Ian Sharp directed film.
Title: 11:11:11
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the emergence of the number 11 in people's lives that is believed to alert people to spirits or angels trying to communicate with them.
Writer: Darren Lynn Bousman
Genre: Supernatural
Saletype: Script
More: Darren Lynn Bousman attached to direct.
Title: Arbitrage
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: A hedge fund magnate is in over his head and desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before his fraud is revealed. But an unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.
Writer: Nicholas Jarecki
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon and Eva Green attached to star. Nicholas Jarecki attached to direct.
Title: Under the Skin
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: Storyline revolves around an alien disguised as a mesmerizing woman who snares human prey on remote highways and other desolate spots with her voracious sexuality. But over time, she begins to change her thinking about humans and finds herself on a collision course with her own kind.
Writer: Michel Faber, Jonathan Glazer, Walter Campbell
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
More: Scarlett Johansson attached to star. Jonathan Glazer attached to direct and adapted Michel Faber's novel with Walter Campbell.
Title: Untitled Fantasy
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: TBA
Writer: Melissa Wallack
Genre: Fantasy
Saletype: Script
More: Tarsem Singh attached to direct.
Title: New Year's Eve
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: Set in New York, it follows intertwining stories of characters trying to navigate their way through romance on New Year's Eve.
Writer: Katherine Fugate
Genre: Drama , Romantic Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Abigail Breslin and Lea Michelle attached to star. Garry Marshall attached to direct.
Title: Rites of Passage
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: Story centers on an anthropology bookworm who laments his place in a society that lacks a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood and leads his hard-partying, stressed-out classmates to his family's abandoned ranch -- where his brother lives in a psychotic world of drugs, guilt and Chumash Indian rituals.
Writer: Peter Iliff
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, Wes Bentley and Kate Maberly attached to star. Peter Iliff attached to direct.
Title: God of Carnage
Date: Monday, November 01, 2010
Logline: Story about two sets of parents who meet to discuss a playground fight between their sons. The meeting degenerates into conflict, criticism, racism and misogyny.
Writer: Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Play , Adaptation
More: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly attached to star. Roman Polanski attached to direct and adapted Yasmina Reza's play.
Title: Aaron and Sarah
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: The story follows a geeky guy and a popular girl who become friends as freshmen in high school and see their relationship deepen through the four years, four proms and one funeral before graduation.
Writer: Chad Gomez Creasey, Dara ResnikCreasey
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Emma Roberts and Josh Hutcherson attached to star. Neil Patrick Harris attached to direct.
Title: The Demonologists
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: The story sees a family of ghost hunters, a mild-mannered occupation, who find themselves out of their league when they encounter a demon
Writer: Teddy Tenenbaum
Genre: Horror
Saletype: Script
More: Dennis Iliadis attached to direct.
Title: Losing My Virginity
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: Story about billionaire Richard Branson's rags to riches life.
Writer: David Mirkin, Richard Branson
Genre: Drama , Biography
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
More: David Mirkin will adapt Richard Branson's memoir and direct.
Title: Celda 211
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Logline: The story centered on a rookie prison guard who turns up for his new prison job a day early and is knocked unconscious by a falling chunk of ceiling. He's rushed to cell 211 and awakens to find a rebellion in progress, led by a convict.
Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarria, Paul Haggis
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Remake , Adaptation
More: Paul Haggis will adapt Jorge Guerricaechevarria's screenplay.
Title: The Ides of March
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Logline: Story follows a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics, the treacherous manipulations of veteran operatives and the seduction of a young intern.
Writer: Beau Willimon, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Play , Adaptation
More: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood attached to star. George Clooney also attached to direct and adapted Beau Willimon's play with Grant Heslov.
Title: Master Daddy
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: A multi-racial martial arts comedy.
Writer: Mark Heyman
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Wesley Snipes, Chuck Norris, Chiba, Frazier, Gracie, Hung, Inosanto, Jaa, Rhee, Kim, Lee Mosely, Bob Wall, Rampage, Anderson Silva and Ron Van Cleff attached to star.
Title: Play Dead
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: Story revolves around football player zombies bent on revenge in a gridiron-obsessed Texas town.
Writer: Ryan Brown, Joe Schreiber
Genre: Thriller , Supernatural , Horror , Suspense
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
More: Joe Schreiber adapting Ryan Brown's novel.
Title: The Dark Knight Rises
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: The story of a caped crusader, who fights crime, named Batman.
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, David Goyer
Genre: Action , Drama , Crime , Fantasy , Suspense
Saletype: Script , Sequel
Studio: Warner Bros.
More: Christopher Nolan attached to direct.
Title: Avatar 2
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: Story of a mystical planet Pandora and its native people.
Writer: James Cameron
Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi , Drama , Fantasy
Saletype: Sequel
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Lightstorm Entertainment
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
More: James Cameron attached to direct.
Title: Ted
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Logline: Story about a grown man whose cherished teddy bear comes to life as the result of a childhood wish.
Writer: Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Seth MacFarlane attached to direct and star.
Title: Downers Grove
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story revolves around a cursed high school in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove. At the end of each school year, one senior dies in a bizarre death.
Writer: Michael Hornberg, Bret Easton Ellis
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
More: Hayden Panettiere, Rebecca De Mornay and Nikki Reed attached to star. Bret Easton Ellis adapted Michael Hornberg's novel. Nelson McCormick attached to direct.
Title: Innocence
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story about a family doctor accused of raping two young girls.
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Pitch
More: Jan Hrebejk attached to direct. Ana Geislerova attached to star.
Title: Agnosia
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Set in 1899, a heiress has been bequeathed with vital industrial secrets. But she suffers a brain condition, Agnosia, which prevents her from correctly understanding what she sees.
Writer: Antonio Trashorras
Genre: Thriller , Period
Saletype: Script
More: Eugenio Mira directed film. Barbara Goenaga, Eduardo Noriega and Martina Gedeck star in film.
Title: Zebras
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: The true-life tale of a music producer who discovers talented young soccer players in the ghettos of Soweto, South Africa, and forms them into a successful team dubbed the Zebras, because it brings together black and white players.
Writer: David Williamson
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
More: Ryan Kwanten and Camilla Belle attached to star. Bruce Beresford attached to direct.
Title: Eliza Graves
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Logline: Story centers on a Harvard Medical School graduate who takes a job at an insane asylum, unaware of the fact that it has been taken over by its occupants.
Writer: Edgar Allan Poe, Joe Gangemi
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script , Short Story , Adaptation
More: Oren Peli attached to direct. Joe Gangemi adapted Edgar Allan Poe's short story.
Title: Bunker
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: The story of a maestro with the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra who begins to doubt his girlfriend's fidelity, only to discover that she's disappeared. He finds solace in his music and a beautiful waitress as questions begin to surface about the disappearance of his other love.
Writer: Andi Baiz, Hatem Khraiche Ruiz-Zorrilla
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Quim Gutierrez, Clara Lago and Martina Garcia attached to star. Andi Baiz attached to direct.
Title: Dark Shadows
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: Gothic soap opera about supernatural beings' everyday lives.
Writer: Seth Grahame-Smith
Genre: Supernatural , Drama , Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Johnny Depp attached to star. Tim Burton attached to direct.
Title: Wrecked
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: A man wakes up in a car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff, having no memory of who he is or how he got there, leaving him forced to discover his true identity.
Writer: Christopher Dodd
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Michael Greenspan directed film. Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas and Ryan Robbins star in film.
Title: Shadowland
Date: Friday, November 05, 2010
Logline: Story follows two young boys who spend a summer with a famous magician, who teaches them more than just harmless tricks but real sorcery.
Writer: Peter Straub, Larry Leahy, Benjamin Straub
Genre: Horror
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
More: Jackson Rathbone and Bill Nighy attached to star. Erik Canuel attached to direct. Larry Leahy and Benjamin Straub will adapt Peter Straub's novel.
Title: The Whistleblower
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: A Nebraskan police officer takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and finds her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue
Writer: Ellis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script
More: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci and David Strathairn star in film. Larysa Kondracki directed film.
Title: Jack Falls
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: Story follows an undercover police officer who returns to London to seek revenge and settle some scores with former criminals and police colleagues.
Writer: Paul Tanter, Alexander Williams
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Comic , Adaptation
More: Tamer Hassan, Jason Flemying, Simon Phillips, Alan Ford, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Kemp star in film. Paul Tanter and Alexander Williams directed film and adapted script.
Title: The Expatriate
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2010
Logline: A former CIA agent hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He moves to Belgium to take work as a security expert and one day discovers that his colleagues have mysteriously vanished and a trained operative is intent on killing both him and his daughter.
Writer: A.E. Amel
Genre: Thriller , Action , Suspense
Saletype: Script
More: Aaron Eckhart attached to star. Phillip Stolzl attached to direct.
Title: Tracker
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: A former Boer War guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a Brit soldier.
Writer: Nicolas van Pallandt
Genre: Thriller , Action , Suspense
Saletype: Script
More: Ray Winstone stars in film. Ian Sharp directed film.
Title: 11:11:11
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: Story centers on the emergence of the number 11 in people's lives that is believed to alert people to spirits or angels trying to communicate with them.
Writer: Darren Lynn Bousman
Genre: Supernatural
Saletype: Script
More: Darren Lynn Bousman attached to direct.
Title: Arbitrage
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: A hedge fund magnate is in over his head and desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before his fraud is revealed. But an unexpected, bloody error forces him to turn to the most unlikely corner for help.
Writer: Nicholas Jarecki
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon and Eva Green attached to star. Nicholas Jarecki attached to direct.
Title: Under the Skin
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Logline: Storyline revolves around an alien disguised as a mesmerizing woman who snares human prey on remote highways and other desolate spots with her voracious sexuality. But over time, she begins to change her thinking about humans and finds herself on a collision course with her own kind.
Writer: Michel Faber, Jonathan Glazer, Walter Campbell
Genre: Sci-Fi
Saletype: Script , Novel , Adaptation
More: Scarlett Johansson attached to star. Jonathan Glazer attached to direct and adapted Michel Faber's novel with Walter Campbell.
Title: Untitled Fantasy
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: TBA
Writer: Melissa Wallack
Genre: Fantasy
Saletype: Script
More: Tarsem Singh attached to direct.
Title: New Year's Eve
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: Set in New York, it follows intertwining stories of characters trying to navigate their way through romance on New Year's Eve.
Writer: Katherine Fugate
Genre: Drama , Romantic Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Abigail Breslin and Lea Michelle attached to star. Garry Marshall attached to direct.
Title: Rites of Passage
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Logline: Story centers on an anthropology bookworm who laments his place in a society that lacks a ceremony to mark his transition into manhood and leads his hard-partying, stressed-out classmates to his family's abandoned ranch -- where his brother lives in a psychotic world of drugs, guilt and Chumash Indian rituals.
Writer: Peter Iliff
Genre: Thriller
Saletype: Script
More: Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, Wes Bentley and Kate Maberly attached to star. Peter Iliff attached to direct.
Title: God of Carnage
Date: Monday, November 01, 2010
Logline: Story about two sets of parents who meet to discuss a playground fight between their sons. The meeting degenerates into conflict, criticism, racism and misogyny.
Writer: Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Play , Adaptation
More: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly attached to star. Roman Polanski attached to direct and adapted Yasmina Reza's play.
Title: Aaron and Sarah
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: The story follows a geeky guy and a popular girl who become friends as freshmen in high school and see their relationship deepen through the four years, four proms and one funeral before graduation.
Writer: Chad Gomez Creasey, Dara ResnikCreasey
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Emma Roberts and Josh Hutcherson attached to star. Neil Patrick Harris attached to direct.
Title: The Demonologists
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: The story sees a family of ghost hunters, a mild-mannered occupation, who find themselves out of their league when they encounter a demon
Writer: Teddy Tenenbaum
Genre: Horror
Saletype: Script
More: Dennis Iliadis attached to direct.
Title: Losing My Virginity
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Logline: Story about billionaire Richard Branson's rags to riches life.
Writer: David Mirkin, Richard Branson
Genre: Drama , Biography
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
More: David Mirkin will adapt Richard Branson's memoir and direct.
Title: Celda 211
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Logline: The story centered on a rookie prison guard who turns up for his new prison job a day early and is knocked unconscious by a falling chunk of ceiling. He's rushed to cell 211 and awakens to find a rebellion in progress, led by a convict.
Writer: Jorge Guerricaechevarria, Paul Haggis
Genre: Drama , Crime
Saletype: Remake , Adaptation
More: Paul Haggis will adapt Jorge Guerricaechevarria's screenplay.
Title: The Ides of March
Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Logline: Story follows a young press spokesman who falls prey to backroom politics, the treacherous manipulations of veteran operatives and the seduction of a young intern.
Writer: Beau Willimon, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Genre: Drama
Saletype: Script , Play , Adaptation
More: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood attached to star. George Clooney also attached to direct and adapted Beau Willimon's play with Grant Heslov.
Title: Master Daddy
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: A multi-racial martial arts comedy.
Writer: Mark Heyman
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Wesley Snipes, Chuck Norris, Chiba, Frazier, Gracie, Hung, Inosanto, Jaa, Rhee, Kim, Lee Mosely, Bob Wall, Rampage, Anderson Silva and Ron Van Cleff attached to star.
Title: Play Dead
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: Story revolves around football player zombies bent on revenge in a gridiron-obsessed Texas town.
Writer: Ryan Brown, Joe Schreiber
Genre: Thriller , Supernatural , Horror , Suspense
Saletype: Novel , Adaptation
More: Joe Schreiber adapting Ryan Brown's novel.
Title: The Dark Knight Rises
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: The story of a caped crusader, who fights crime, named Batman.
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, David Goyer
Genre: Action , Drama , Crime , Fantasy , Suspense
Saletype: Script , Sequel
Studio: Warner Bros.
More: Christopher Nolan attached to direct.
Title: Avatar 2
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Logline: Story of a mystical planet Pandora and its native people.
Writer: James Cameron
Genre: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi , Drama , Fantasy
Saletype: Sequel
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Production Company: Lightstorm Entertainment
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
More: James Cameron attached to direct.
Title: Ted
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Logline: Story about a grown man whose cherished teddy bear comes to life as the result of a childhood wish.
Writer: Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild
Genre: Comedy
Saletype: Script
More: Seth MacFarlane attached to direct and star.
Monday, November 8, 2010
STEP IN MY FUTURISTIC AUTO-DRIVE CAR
If you're wondering what I’ve been up to, well I'm back to the future!
When I first started writing the first draft of my science fiction screenplay "the face" I imagined my cop in a auto-drive car, I’m now working on the final draft of the script and I recently saw a reportage showing the same futuristic car I have imagined in the script.
Doing some researches online I found this fabulous article and wanted to share this extraordinary journey to the future with you.
Enjoy!
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Tomorrow's cars run on electricity and drive themselves
By Dick Pelletier
Imagine making the 275-mile trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in tomorrow's driverless car. "You hop in, voice your destination and off you go. With speeds up to 200 mph, you lay back, watch TV, browse the Web, or take a nap. In a couple of hours, you arrive in LA relaxed and ready for a great day."
Despite world car population approaching one billion, the economy has devastated the auto industry. To reverse this trend, carmakers are going electric and adding a wide variety of automation features. Experts predict that by 2020, 4 million electric vehicles will be on the road, and by 2050, all cars will run on electricity, which will end America's century-old dependency on gasoline.
Tomorrow's electric cars will be different from today's versions that require frequent stops to recharge batteries. In the decades ahead, highway guardrails will transmit radio waves to coils inside electric cars that charge batteries continuously, eliminating the need for recharging breaks.
Other innovations will include electric motors in each wheel, which eliminates the drive shaft and creates better traction for safer maneuvering; and car bodies coated with nanomaterials that can change shape and color on command, and if damaged, allow the vehicle to pop back into its original condition.
35,000 Americans died in traffic accidents last year, which Volvo Safety and Strategy manager Jan Ivarsson considers an unacceptable statistic. Ivarsson believes his company can eliminate all deaths and serious injuries in its vehicles by 2020. This prediction seems bold at a time when Toyota, the world's largest car maker is struggling with floor mats and sticking accelerator pedals.
But Ivarsson reasons that by adding automation features such as those that detect pedestrians in the vehicle's path and bring the car to a stop if the driver does not respond, along with other automatic braking and steering programs; nearly all injury crashes could be prevented.
However, according to Pentagon officials who recently sponsored competition for robot cars to travel through city streets without human help, the ultimate in vehicle safety will be the driverless car, which many experts predict could become the most popular way of scurrying people about by as early as the 2020s.
Self-driving cars are possible on current roadways using technology that could be in place within a decade, said GM executive researcher Larry Burns at a recent Consumer Electronics Show.
Driverless cars calculate steering, braking, speed and road conditions; and employ "natural voice" speech-recognition. Programmed with the right personality, experts say, you and your computerized car could become good friends. Advantages of auto-drive cars include higher speeds, less traffic congestion, and increased passenger safety.
Driverless technologies utilize emerging cognitive science aimed at a "taxi-like" experience. On a trip to the market, your computer-driven car drops you at the store entrance, auto-parks itself, then picks you up when you've finished shopping.
Barriers to this technology are mainly social, not technical. Today, most people might place more faith in their own driving skills than a computer; but as artificial intelligence advances through the years, it will become clear that auto-drive vehicles are safer. By mid-2020s, experts predict, most Americans will prefer electric-driverless cars for their commutes and errands.
This article appeared in various print publications and on-line blogs. Comments always welcome
When I first started writing the first draft of my science fiction screenplay "the face" I imagined my cop in a auto-drive car, I’m now working on the final draft of the script and I recently saw a reportage showing the same futuristic car I have imagined in the script.
Doing some researches online I found this fabulous article and wanted to share this extraordinary journey to the future with you.
Enjoy!
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Tomorrow's cars run on electricity and drive themselves
By Dick Pelletier
Imagine making the 275-mile trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in tomorrow's driverless car. "You hop in, voice your destination and off you go. With speeds up to 200 mph, you lay back, watch TV, browse the Web, or take a nap. In a couple of hours, you arrive in LA relaxed and ready for a great day."
Despite world car population approaching one billion, the economy has devastated the auto industry. To reverse this trend, carmakers are going electric and adding a wide variety of automation features. Experts predict that by 2020, 4 million electric vehicles will be on the road, and by 2050, all cars will run on electricity, which will end America's century-old dependency on gasoline.
Tomorrow's electric cars will be different from today's versions that require frequent stops to recharge batteries. In the decades ahead, highway guardrails will transmit radio waves to coils inside electric cars that charge batteries continuously, eliminating the need for recharging breaks.
Other innovations will include electric motors in each wheel, which eliminates the drive shaft and creates better traction for safer maneuvering; and car bodies coated with nanomaterials that can change shape and color on command, and if damaged, allow the vehicle to pop back into its original condition.
35,000 Americans died in traffic accidents last year, which Volvo Safety and Strategy manager Jan Ivarsson considers an unacceptable statistic. Ivarsson believes his company can eliminate all deaths and serious injuries in its vehicles by 2020. This prediction seems bold at a time when Toyota, the world's largest car maker is struggling with floor mats and sticking accelerator pedals.
But Ivarsson reasons that by adding automation features such as those that detect pedestrians in the vehicle's path and bring the car to a stop if the driver does not respond, along with other automatic braking and steering programs; nearly all injury crashes could be prevented.
However, according to Pentagon officials who recently sponsored competition for robot cars to travel through city streets without human help, the ultimate in vehicle safety will be the driverless car, which many experts predict could become the most popular way of scurrying people about by as early as the 2020s.
Self-driving cars are possible on current roadways using technology that could be in place within a decade, said GM executive researcher Larry Burns at a recent Consumer Electronics Show.
Driverless cars calculate steering, braking, speed and road conditions; and employ "natural voice" speech-recognition. Programmed with the right personality, experts say, you and your computerized car could become good friends. Advantages of auto-drive cars include higher speeds, less traffic congestion, and increased passenger safety.
Driverless technologies utilize emerging cognitive science aimed at a "taxi-like" experience. On a trip to the market, your computer-driven car drops you at the store entrance, auto-parks itself, then picks you up when you've finished shopping.
Barriers to this technology are mainly social, not technical. Today, most people might place more faith in their own driving skills than a computer; but as artificial intelligence advances through the years, it will become clear that auto-drive vehicles are safer. By mid-2020s, experts predict, most Americans will prefer electric-driverless cars for their commutes and errands.
This article appeared in various print publications and on-line blogs. Comments always welcome
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Lovely note from a talented actor
Just received from my friend Lucius Baston, adorable note! Thank you!
"Hi Jordan. You are an angel of your own device. You heal us with your creative word play. Keep bringing us yo...ur stories. Your time is rapidly approaching. :)"
"Hi Jordan. You are an angel of your own device. You heal us with your creative word play. Keep bringing us yo...ur stories. Your time is rapidly approaching. :)"
AGENTS CHARGING CLIENTS UP FRONT: REVELATIONS ON A COMMON PRACTICE IN THE FILM WORLD OR TRICK FROM A CROOK?
I got this email and I thought it might be useful to my fellow screenwriters. Personally, I would avoid this kind of practice. But what do you think of these "revelations"? Personally I think it's a trick. Let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks for reading! Jordan.
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Good afternoon,
Please send the entire script and synopsis via snail mail (post) to the address in our website.
Also, please read the Fact letter below, as we like to be up front with potential clients.
We look forward to seeing your script
Dave
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FACT LETTER
We like all potential clients to know that we don’t charge reading fees, but IF we represent them there’s an annual contract fee of $450.00. This covers submissions, phone calls, follow-ups, contract negotiations (in the event of a sale) and all other aspects of representation.
We inform people of this up front, so there are no games or surprises. Also, each client receives a quarterly Submission Report, (Jan., April, July and Oct.) which summarizes what’s been sent, to whom, when it was sent and the results.
According to certain websites, it is not a “Standard Practice” for an agency to charge up-front fees. In reality, it is a standard practice. Theses organizations forbid fees, and most of the agents that don’t charge are members of these organizations.
What they don’t mention is that these agents generally will not accept new writers unless the writers are already best selling authors. The reason? The time, effort and expense involved in pitching a known author is minimal, while pitching an unknown to paranoid publishers and producers requires much more.
An agency that doesn’t charge some type of fee for new writers will not stay in business long, so they have no choice. We like to inform potential clients of this aspect of the industry so they have a broader understanding of the way things are.
We hope that this info has been helpful. If you have any questions, there are characters on our websites who can help.
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Good afternoon,
Please send the entire script and synopsis via snail mail (post) to the address in our website.
Also, please read the Fact letter below, as we like to be up front with potential clients.
We look forward to seeing your script
Dave
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
FACT LETTER
We like all potential clients to know that we don’t charge reading fees, but IF we represent them there’s an annual contract fee of $450.00. This covers submissions, phone calls, follow-ups, contract negotiations (in the event of a sale) and all other aspects of representation.
We inform people of this up front, so there are no games or surprises. Also, each client receives a quarterly Submission Report, (Jan., April, July and Oct.) which summarizes what’s been sent, to whom, when it was sent and the results.
According to certain websites, it is not a “Standard Practice” for an agency to charge up-front fees. In reality, it is a standard practice. Theses organizations forbid fees, and most of the agents that don’t charge are members of these organizations.
What they don’t mention is that these agents generally will not accept new writers unless the writers are already best selling authors. The reason? The time, effort and expense involved in pitching a known author is minimal, while pitching an unknown to paranoid publishers and producers requires much more.
An agency that doesn’t charge some type of fee for new writers will not stay in business long, so they have no choice. We like to inform potential clients of this aspect of the industry so they have a broader understanding of the way things are.
We hope that this info has been helpful. If you have any questions, there are characters on our websites who can help.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Tommy Hilfiger Duck Boots
Olivia is armed against cold and rainy weather with her newest footwear: the Tommy Hilfiger duck boots. Watch this video where she confesses her love for them.
HOGAN Fall / Winter 2010 Campaign
The rumours are true, our beloved show 'The City' is cancelled. The show will not return to MTV for a third season. But this doesn't mean Olivia is unemployed. Lately, she has been doing some modeling work..
music in the video is '40 day dream' by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
music in the video is '40 day dream' by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Mango winter 2010
Olivia modeled alongside her boyfriend Johannes Huebl for the Mango campaign. The shoot took place at Barcelona's Hotel Palace, and the photographer was the Spanish Txema Yeste. This was not the first time Olivia and Johannes worked together, they previously did a shoot for Hogan. (see previous post)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
JENNIFER ALLEN (publicist)
One of the nicest persons in Hollywood.
I've been in touch with her several times and she's really pleasant. Not surprising to see her representing so many wonderful artists.
Just wanted to pay a little tribute to someone deserving it (they are so rare in this industry)
Jordan.
I've been in touch with her several times and she's really pleasant. Not surprising to see her representing so many wonderful artists.
Just wanted to pay a little tribute to someone deserving it (they are so rare in this industry)
Jordan.
THIEF POLICY IN SOME PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Received from a friend screenwriter this week.
Good evening Jordan, please read their page, it's shocking!
http://www.fleurdelisfilmstudios.com/fdls_015.htm
If, despite our request, you send us any creative idea, suggestion or material ("Submission"), it shall become our property. No Submission will be subject to any obligation of confidence by us, and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Submission. We will exclusively own all known or later-existing rights to the Submission worldwide and will be entitled to the unrestricted use of the Submission for any purpose, without compensation to the provider of the Submission.
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Does not sound very legal to me...What do you think? BEWARE OF THIS KIND OF COMPANIES.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Professor predicts human time travel this century
With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating light beam. While his team still needs funding for the project, Mallett calculates that the possibility of time travel using this method could be verified within a decade.
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