Word: screenplays
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...bathroom humor. There's another dilemma. Asked about the lack of choice roles for black actors, Wright pauses. "If there's a positive for actors of color, it's that there are so many undiscovered stories from our perspective," he says. Some of those stories will fill a screenplay he's writing based on inner-city kids he grew up with; this could mean that Wright will make some noise...
...recalls. He was also expected to follow his parents into medicine. When he told them he would instead study moviemaking at New York University, they were horrified. Now they feel a lot better. In 1997, five years after his graduation, Walt Disney Studios paid Shyamalan $2.5 million for the screenplay of the Bruce Willis thriller The Sixth Sense and let the young writer direct the movie as well. The ghost tale has earned more than $680 million worldwide since its release last year and garnered six Academy Award nominations. "If it hadn't grossed $100 million," he laughs...
...schedule. Myers, who is thinking of countersuing, released the following statement: "I cannot, in good conscience, accept $20 million and cheat moviegoers who pay their hard-earned money for my work by making a movie with an unacceptable script." Hopefully, similar problems can be avoided in the Coffee Talk screenplay...
...Filming for Good Will Hunting begins in Harvard Square. Matt Damon, Class of 1992, and Ben Affleck, both native Cantabrigians, later win a "Best Screenplay" Oscar for the film...
Makhmalbaf shared the Jury prize with Sweden's Roy Andersson, whose "Songs from the Second Floor" is a handsomely shot series of tragicomic tableaux and trompes l'oeil. The screenplay award went to Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty," with Renee Zellweger as a young widow propelled by shock into a soap-opera world...