Writers talk successful scripting
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Kristen Wiig, and more discuss writing screenplays at a Writers Guild panel.
“Of course writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.”
Did you hear? Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is being made into a movie. That movie is called Being Flynn. It will be out sometime during Spring 2012. We’ll keep you posted, but check out the trailer for now. Paul Dano! Also, check out De Niro at 1:43. Damn.
Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price toasting marshmallows between filming scenes of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.
scanned from Modern Monsters Magazine :: Prestige Publications :: 1966
There is so much freakin’ Halloween in this picture it ain’t even funny.
Trailer for an upcoming documentary about The Phantom Tollbooth, focusing on the politics and science behind the story.
Check out the film’s website to learn more about the project, which is also funded by a kickstarter.
(Source: io9.com)
Movie Licensing USA: Programming Ideas for Public Libraries
Movie Licensing USA, is a corporate division of Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® We provide the Public Performance Site License to K-12 schools and public libraries which satisfies the copyright protection needed when entertainment movies are shown in the buildings. Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. has long standing, exclusive licensing agreements to this and other non-theatrical markets with most of the major Hollywood movie producers.
They have a few good programming ideas for both school and public librarians who want to incorporate a movie. This link will take you to ideas for books to film; they also have ideas for banned books, teen reads, summer reads, and programming for adults. A super cool resource.
10 Action Librarians
Evie Carnahan from The Mummy and The Mummy Returns
Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ariana from Family Man
Barbara Gordon a.k.a. Batgirl, also a.k.a. Oracle from Detective Comics
(and all the various Bat spin-offs)
Wan Shi Tong from Avatar: The Last Airbender
Dean Corso from The Ninth Gate
Lirael from Lirael
Lucien from Sandman
Yomiko Readman from Read or Die
The Librarian from Discworld
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, and Michael Fassbender star in A Dangerous Method, director David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure (itself adapted from the non-fiction book A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr).
(Source: youtube.com)
A decade of Harry Potter Earnings.
