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Video: The Battle of Long Tan

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It’s Australia Day and I have been working on my favorite project for the moment: the feature screenplay for LONG TAN, the feature based on the eponymous Vietnam battle from 1966. For the occasion I wanted to share something special with you. This week Sam Worthington mentioned our project in an interview to the press … Read more

Thank you Spielberg! Today I’m proud to be a (half) Belgian.

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Thanks to Paramount Pictures, the Belgian ambassador in Australia and my friend Nathalie Surmont, I had the privilege of seeing Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin one day before its American release. Spielberg got me into movies – and he keeps exciting me.   I was extremely skeptical… I don’t like 3D much, I didn’t like the … Read more

Best o/t Web 26 Dec

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Story & Structure :: BAFTA screenwriters lecture series :: Robert A. Heinlein biography :: Santa movies frozen out of festive season :: “It’s a Wonderful Life”: The most terrifying movie ever Script Perfection :: Screenwriting Tips: Generating ideas | People under pressure | Teenage protagonists :: My year in screenwriting :: Joseph Campbell quotes | more quotes :: Writing adaptations for practice :: Carson’s top … Read more

Best o/t Web 22 Aug

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:: Joss Whedon discusses Captain America
:: Facebook meddles with Social Network script
:: In praise of Toy Story 3 (and Pixar as a whole)
:: Francois Truffaut’s last interview
:: Check the Box Office prediction model before you start
:: Best comic book adaptation: Road to Perdition
:: The Zombie version of Assault On Precinct 13
:: Chinese remake Coen’s Blood Simple
:: Fighting leaks: Watermarking for script security.
:: Act three and the art of the universal ending.
:: Justin Adler’s The Escort ranks impressive.
:: Screenwriter Walter Hill on writing movies.
:: Angelina Jolie & George Clooney set for Marilyn Monroe film.
:: The cliche conundrum, can you make it work?
:: A look at 10 past scripts and their box office results.

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