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• n  someone who writes screenplays

• Charlie Kaufman has ideas, which for a screenwriter is rarer than you would think.
• Jokes at Matt Damon's expense have been a long-running gag on Jimmy Kimmel Live (witness the host's customary sign-off), so perhaps it's no surprise the Oscar-winning screenwriter .
• Hell is a teenage girl, or so we're told at the beginning of Jennifer's Body, a glib but entertaining comic-horror film from Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Karyn Kusama ( .

• film writer

News & Articles

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• Round 2? Is It Now CAA Vs WME? Neither?
  No clue if this is the start of a revenge campaign or a bit of photoshopping. But one of Deadline’s comments did suggest on June 11th that “bloWME also works” so that may have been the genesis of the idea. Now director, screenwriter, and producer Dan Mirvish (co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival) has put up this photo of a purported LA bench ad on his Facebook page with the question, “ CAA ...
  June 15, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
• David Goyer on Justice League and the Man of Steel Sequel
  Man of Steel screenwriter David S. Goyer has been talking about a sequel and the possible Justice League movie. Regarding the latter, he tells Hey U Guys that it would definitely feature a new Batman and not Christian Bale, as was rumored before.
  June 14, 2013 - Coming Soon
• 'Salinger': Shane Salerno says documentary answers 'big questions'
  Screenwriter Shane Salerno ("Savages," "Shaft") has spent close to a decade on a singular obsession: the reclusive late author J.D. Salinger. Now his work is finally coming to fruition.
  June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in Reuters
  Actor, author, screenwriter, director, producer and philanthropist, he was also a great friend of France and fans of motor racing will remember his successive appearances at the Le Mans 24-hour race,Sarkozy said in a statement.
• Barack Obama in Los Angeles Times
  In 'Jumanji,' Sony was having some problems with script development so I wrote a bunch more material -- kind of a treatment. And thought I wasn't a credited screenwriter, I got a story credit because of those contributions. In that case, I was... Chris Van Allsburg http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Van_Allsburg&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGTAfYCFDM9We6z5SzADPUaKa8QVA NBC5.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nbc5.com/entertainment/7052051/detail.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGGw7q-9JGUbjD2fR9lHloGArWSvw Feb 14, 2006 86901 116186 screw This was a screw-up that could have been disastrous," Obama told the officials, White House officials said later. "We dodged a bullet, but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals, not because the system worked -- and that is not...