Word: screenplay
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WHAT'S NEW There's still a boat, a wall of water and a group of survivors. But apart from that, the screenplay is brand new. There's no Winters character-all the women are more of the "don't know-their-names-but-they-sure-look-good-wet" variety, like Emmy Rossum (Phantom of the Opera). And the special effects on this one should make the first one look like a kiddie pool...
...more control than you thought you did.” While at Harvard, Baum appeared in “The Shaughraun” with the Huntington Theatre Company, as well as a handful of independent and feature films. After graduation, he moved to New York to pursue acting and screenplay writing, performing in “As You Like It” with Gwyneth Paltrow and “Camino Real” with Ethan Hawke. Ideas rarely turn into television series — network cuts ensure that few pitches ever make it even to a pilot episode. Still...
While the screenplay is relatively bland and predictably feel-good, it does have a few highlights. After Price makes the aforementioned boots, Lola replies, “Please, God, tell me I have not inspired something burgundy.” And the cutest moment, already spoiled in the trailer, is when the old woman renting a room to Lola asks him if he is a man. When Lola replies in the affirmative, the woman replies, “Ah, that’s fine, just so I know how to leave the toilet seat. I’ll get some...
Despite the convivial atmosphere, the festival was also competitive, with awards handed out for achievement in several different genres, as well as for best screenplay, best directing, audience favorite, and “most original voice.” The biggest winners (none of Harvard’s entries took home awards) were University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Scott, who won both Best Short Screenplay and Most Original Voice for her “The Infamous Gabi Garcia.” Daniel Falcone from Columbia’s film school, whose “Night Swimming?...
...Tribeca Film Festival, within view of the still gaping Twin Towers site. Greengrass's film is the first of a few big-studio projects dealing with 9/11. World Trade Center, the account of two Port Authority policemen trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with Crash, has expressed interest in directing...