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◊ ‘This Is Us’ Says Goodbye: How a Drama Whose Original Pilot Script Wasn’t Written for Network Standards Changed Broadcast
https://variety.com/2022/awards/news/this-is-us-finale-broadcast-pilot-script-changes-emmys-1235282801/
My two-cent takeaway: As mentioned in the ...
It’s hard to believe that Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park hit theaters way back in 1993, terrifying and inspiring a whole new generation of paleontologists and young dinosaur enthusiasts. Three decades later it seems we still haven’t learned our lesson about experimenting with ancient genetics and the second movie franchise ...
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◊ ‘Yellowjackets’ Creators Guess an ‘Anti-‘Ted Lasso’ Effect’ May Have Helped Their Grim Thriller
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/why-yellowjackets-hit-creators-anti-ted-lasso-interview-1234728334/
My two-cent takeaway: Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson talk about ...
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◊ The Insult That Awoke A Ferocious Writer’s Voice In ‘Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan — Deadline Disruptors
https://deadline.com/2022/05/taylor-sheridan-yellowstone-1883-sylvester-stallone-harrison-ford-deadline-disruptors-1235026995/
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◊ David Cronenberg Breaks Down Cannes Walkouts, His New Film’s Sexuality, and Why Netflix Turns Him Down
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/david-cronenberg-cannes-interview-crimes-of-the-future-walkouts-netflix-1235267464/
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/david-cronenbe...
If you’re like me and can’t get enough of Julian Fellowes’ female-driven family dramas, you most likely gobbled up each delicious episode of The Gilded Age on HBO and can’t wait for season two. But as good as the American-set show is, it just doesn’t scratch the same itch as our beloved Downton. Luckily, writer/creator/pro...
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◊ FX has rounded out the cast of its Justified follow-up series, Justified: City Primeval. The cabler has enlisted Aunjanue Ellis, Boyd Holbrook, Adelaide Clemens, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Marin Ireland, Norbert Leo Butz, Victor Williams, and Vivian Olyphant to join the franchise star Timothy Olyphant in ...
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🎬 In a preemptive sale, Universal has picked up Batshit, a spec script by rising scribes Ryan Belenzon and Jeff Gelber. The project is described as an action-thriller about a new “bounty app” that encourages reckless behavior. Jon Silk, who worked on It and White Boy Rick, is producing via ...
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Oscars: Full List of Screenwriting Winners
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA (screenplay by Siân Heder) (WINNER)
Drive My Car (screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)
Dune (screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth)
The Lost Daughter (written by Maggie ...
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◊ On Sunday, CODA added another trophy to its haul this season at the 2022 Writers Guild Awards. CODA has now scooped the top prize at PGAs, the WGAs, and the SAGs. The Ashley Nicole Black-hosted virtual WGA Awards ceremony saw Siân Heder also win best-adapted screenplay for CODA and Adam ...
The Lost City is an adventure rom-com about disenchanted romance novelist, Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) who's indulging her publicist by going on a book tour with her male cover model, Alan (Channing Tatum). When the hunky himbo gets more attention than Loretta, she's ready to throw in the towel on her writing career. But before she can end ...
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◊ If you're wondering how many shows uber producer Taylor Sheridan has on the go at Paramount+ at the moment, well, you can stop wondering as THR's James Hibberd has rather handily put them all in one place with descriptions and all. And, yeah, it's a lot and there's more than just Yellowstone and ...
