Past Scriptland columns
A weekly feature on the work and professional lives of screenwriters.
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When unknown Brad Ingelsby sold “The Low Dweller” for $650,000, it announced that Hollywood buyers were still here.
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On the positive side, the strike is forcing them to meet people, share career tips and get some exercise.
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When David Simon (“The Wire”) considered HBO’s proposal to script Evan Wright’s book “Generation Kill,” he knew the journalist should stay in the picture, he told television critics at their annual press tour last week.
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Benjamin Black’s third crime novel about Quirke’s search for sobriety and a missing woman in ’50s Dublin is well written and its characters well drawn.
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Back from the dead, director Martin Scorsese and writer William Monahan puzzling over how to extend francise.
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You can’t throw a skim latte in L.A. without hitting a writer who has a screenplay that’s been stuck in the system since grunge was breaking.
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Also: “Family Guy’s” Seth MacFarlane keeps some control.
- 9
Allan Loeb knows a thing or two about Lady Luck. She’s treating him much better lately.
