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WGA winners: Arndt & Monahan
Michael Arndt should expect a stack of studio/producer screenplay offers for consideration this week after the WGA bestowed a biggie win for his Little Miss Sunshine. The Departed got best adapted screenplay. Amy Berg’s Deliver Us From Evil won for best documentary screenplay.
Weinstein like what they find ‘Inside’ Berlin fest
First major U.S. buy out of the gate at Berlin film fest – and not surprisingly The Weinstein Co. are still, yes still adding to their upcoming 2007-08 slate. The ever-expanding co. bought Inside (À l'intérieur) from Celluloid Dreams.
Himmelstein Creates Structure and Celluloid
In a unique blend of art and structure, famed New York architect Peter Himmelstein has collaborated a second time with L.A. based Occupant films for Peep World, a voyeuristic look into a day in the life of a darkly comedic family tormented by fact, fiction, and mortality. The pic, penned by Himmelstein, was one of the “Luck 13” chosen for the 2004 Sundance Institute’s Filmmakers and Screenwriters Lab.
C.R.A.Z.Y’s filmmaker joins Scorsese
French Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée's C.R.A.Z.Y is an example of how a breakout local, national film can surpass borders and become a festival hit –...
Locarno Gives Lifetime Nod to HHH
Asian auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien will be honored at the 60th Locarno Film Festival with the Golden Leopard; the equivalent to the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Tinsel town. The Taiwanese titan has depicted social changes in his native country with sometimes auto-bio pics. Organizers of the Swiss fest say the helmer is set to accept the honor at this year’s event, scheduled for August 1-11.
