April 2012
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Amazon Studios Movie Development Slate Spotlight:...
Earlier this month, Amazon Studios announced the projects on its Development Slate. Some have top producers attached, some have open writing assignments, some have test movies — and all are moving forward.
Hollywonk is highlighting them, grouped by genre (including comedies and action projects). Here’s a closer look at the dramas and science fiction movies:
Animal Heads
Premise: Leo’s big plans...
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Amazon Studios Movie Development Slate Spotlight:...
Earlier this month, Amazon Studios announced the projects on its Development Slate. Some have top producers attached, some have open writing assignments, some have test movies — and all are moving forward.
Hollywonk is highlighting them, grouped by genre (including comedies and dramas and science fiction). Here’s a closer look at the action movies:
ZvG: Zombies vs. Gladiators
Premise: A...
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Amazon Studios Movie Development Slate Spotlight:...
Earlier this month, Amazon Studios announced the projects on its Development Slate. Some have top producers attached, some have open writing assignments, some have test movies — and all are moving forward.
Over the next three days, Hollywonk will highlight them, grouped by genre (including action and sci-fi/drama). Here’s a closer look at the comedies, and a musical that will have the whole...
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Podcast Exclusive: "Animal House" Producer Shares...
Animal House, one of the most-loved movie comedies of all time, is hotter than ever. There’s a Broadway show in the works and a new, behind-the-scenes book called Fat, Drunk, & Stupid by producer Matty Simmons, who talks to us about what Hollywood first thought of the script (hated it!), what got cut, and why there was never a sequel.
Some highlights from the interview:
On Hollywood’s...
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Incredibly Rare Statue of Female Gladiator... →
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A female gladiator is apparently a gladiatrix, plural gladiatrices. There, now that I’ve told you that, I’m free to use the word in the rest of this article. Archaeologists and classicists don’t disagree on whether or not there were female gladiators in ancient Rome. It’s clear from a number of contemporary accounts that there were. Just how rare they were is another question,...
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Amazon Studios Q&A: “We are Focused on Creating...
Screenwriter Sean Hood (Halloween: Resurrection) interviewed Amazon Studios Director Roy Price about recent changes made to Amazon Studios’ movie development process, a worldwide open door, and “movies that MUST be made.” Here are some highlights from their Q&A on Hood’s Genre Hacks blog:
Sean Hood: Previously, writers belonging to the Writers’ Guild of America could not submit...
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Humility is the Soul of Whit (Stillman)
Before Gossip Girl and Vineyard Vines, self-described “particularist” Whit Stillman captured the upper-crust experience through a different medium, film. He’s known for chronicling the first-world problems and excruciating cleverness of the elite in a style that’s developed a devoted cult following. Rolling Stone describes it as “awesomely talky, semiautobiographical field guides to...
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How "Hologram Tupac" Came to Be ... And What He...
That world where death can no longer keep our stars from us? We moved a step closer to it over the weekend when Tupac stalked the stage “live” at the Coachella festival — 15 years after his death. Yeah, he was a hologram, but he felt thrillingly real, even to Tupac’s mom.
New Scientist explains how 100,000 minds got blown in the California desert:
The virtual Tupac was put together by video...
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Paul Feig Can Take Us Back to the '80s Anytime
Yes, we know, Hollywood is officially obsessed with the ’80s. The Die Hard pitch is back. The “wow, they can really dance” version of Footloose is out on video. The reimagined versions of Robocop and Total Recall (and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles … or is that Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles?) are on the way.
But this our new favorite way to obsess over the ’80s — via Freaks and Geeks, the...
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Open Writing Assignments at Amazon Studios (Plus...
Writers around the world are invited to pitch their take on two Amazon Studios projects to be considered for Open Writing Assignments that will pay up to $33,000 each. The projects are 12 Princesses, a fairytale musical adventure, and I Think My Facebook Friend is Dead, about a nerd in love. Both are part of the Amazon Studios Development Slate — 15 projects in active development as theatrical...
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radiogems:
Alec Baldwin’s show “Here’s The...
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What Happens When the Instagram Deal Meets "The...
“People want to go online and look at pictures. Why not offer an app that’s just pictures of food, sky, sunsets and food … with a filter.”
“A billion dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A BAZILLION dollars.”
“Do you like filterless pictures? Do you want to go back to that????”
Thank you, Funny or Die! (via Indiewire)
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Guest Post by David Hughes: What is Development...
David Hughes braves the depths of Development Hell to find the untold stories behind the unmade movies (Sandman, where art thou?) and the unmade versions of movies that actually did reach the screen (like the fourth Indiana Jones film, written by Frank Darabont and meant to include Sean Connery).
In this exclusive guest post, Hughes answers the question at the heart of his acclaimed and — newly...
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Three Things Every Screenwriter Should Know About...
Amazon Studios’ open door for original script submissions is now open even wider. Here are the three most important things for writers to know:
$10,000 payment for projects added to the Development Slate If you submit an original script that Amazon Studios adds to its Development Slate, it means Amazon Studios will pay you $10,000 to extend our initial 45-day option for 18 months.
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Amazon Studios Announces Development Slate and...
Amazon Studios today unveiled its Development Slate of 15 top projects, as well as changes designed to make submitting original scripts even easier: a new private submission process, an initial option and evaluation period of only 45 days, and $10,000 option extensions of 18 months for the best scripts.
“We’re eager to get movies made and we look forward to seeing the best work that writers have...
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Guest Post: Noah Hawley on The Segue ... And How...
Noah Hawley is a novelist and screenwriter (Lies and Alibis, The Unusuals) whose latest book, The Good Father: A Novel, is the provocative story of a man trying to understand and defend his son, who stands accused of a terrible crime.
For Hollywonk, Hawley offers his take on the power of the pitch in Hollywood, why the segue is so important, and how little it all has to do with actual...
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