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By:
Nancy Tartaglione
January 11, 2010 11:00am EST
The Writers Guild announced its screen nominees this morning with Best Original screenplay nods going to Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for (500) Days of Summer, James Cameron for Avatar, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore for The Hangover, Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker and Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man.
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Hollywood’s most in-demand writing duo is teaming up for an update of 'Hawaii Five-O,' which will return to CBS, the network it aired on from 1968-1980.
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By:
Nancy Tartaglione
September 02, 2009 4:56am EST
Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. are gearing up to play 'Cowboys and Aliens.'
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By:
Pete Hammond
May 07, 2009 7:35pm EST
This brilliant reinvention of the beloved sci-fi franchise boldly (and smartly) goes where no 'Star Trek' has ever gone before.
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By:
Nancy Tartaglione
March 31, 2009 4:01am EST
Paramount has hired a trio of writers to move forward with a sequel to Star Trek, the J.J. Abrams-directed tentpole that is set for release on May 8.
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By:
Emily Christianson
January 07, 2009 4:07pm EST
The Coen brothers could be adding a third Writers Guild of America Award to their impressive trophy case next month if they can nab another for best original screenplay for Burn After Reading. The WGA, who announced their nominees today, presented Joel and Ethan Coen with best adapted screenplay last year for No Country for Old Men and best original screenplay in 1997 for Fargo.
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By:
Kit Bowen
September 25, 2008 10:15pm EST
Eagle Eye certainly is an action-packed thriller, but the film asks us to suspend our disbelief almost TOO much. When you’re scratching your head all the time, it’s distracting.
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By:
Brian Marder
July 03, 2007 6:08am EST
When Transformers is going strong early on, it’s the grandest—in every sense of the word—entertainment in years. But during the second half it either burns out or burns us out, an amnesia only Michael Bay can induce.
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By:
Scott Huver
October 28, 2005 6:29am EST
This seven-years-later sequel lacks the sexy, cutting zing! that made 1998’s The Mask of Zorro a sharp, stylish update of the old school swordsman. Instead, the sequel favors more a family-friendly approach. Still, there’s enough caliente chemistry to be found between stars Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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By:
Kit Bowen
July 22, 2005 5:37am EST
Perhaps The Island will get you thinking about the adverse effects of human cloning. Oh, who are we kidding? We just want to see cars crash, stuff get blown up and Scarlett Johansson. This is a Michael Bay movie, after all.