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Pleased to have been invited to board this train. The views from the window will be stunning; the carriages full of conversation; the destination worth the journey.

We're proud to be shaping his story in our own modest way.

[Applause Entertainment @ApplauseSocial]

Capturing history in the making! #Gandhi filming now. 🎥

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“As with any mismatched movie pair, Brock and Venom eventually find a common understanding- literally and symbolically bonded by their shared loserdom.”

📖 Read our thoughts of VENOM on our ScriptUp Blog
https://t.co/z2EaJhox3C

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Hugh Grant said director Paul King "sent me a mock-up of the Oompa Loompa stark naked. And my little children were a little alarmed at that." King added, "It was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in my life. If leaked, a generation of children will be scarred."

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🚨Deadline: Feb 9 🚨
The Sundance Institute Episodic Lab is a 6-day program for writers to workshop a pilot script. Fellows will participate in 1-on-1 story meetings, craft workshops, and simulated writers’ rooms with accomplished showrunners.

Apply now! https://t.co/neqlZ842IN

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We're thrilled to be part of this journey through our script editing and dialogue writing. @Gandhi will follow the lesser known stories of his life that played an important role in shaping him into a Mahatma.

Read more here 👉 https://t.co/byVfm6am8I

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Pleased to have been invited to board this train. The views from the window will be stunning; the carriages full of conversation; the destination worth the journey.

We're proud to be shaping his story in our own modest way.

[Applause Entertainment @ApplauseSocial]

Capturing history in the making! #Gandhi filming now. 🎥

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But apart from Scorsese’s heavyweight obsessions with Catholic guilt, redemption and retribution, MEAN STREETS's charm lies in its affectionate, funny and compassionate look at the down-and-outers of a bygone Little Italy.

https://t.co/7vWb2UJmw8

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The book this movie is based on, “Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI”, was written about true events ft. a series of murders of wealthy Osage people in Osage County, Oklahoma in the early 1920s, after big oil deposits were discovered.

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🎥APPLY: @mcrfilmfestival x ScriptUp Screenplay Competition

Winners will receive a 1.5k Finalist’s Report with prompting questions to help guide a re-write, and a scoring grid.

Industry jury members 👉 Disney +, Curtis Brown, Endeavor Content, etc.

https://t.co/1snK4evn52

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“DEAD RINGERS begs broader questions about individual self-worth and self-identification, and the nature of a society which forces people to conform — no matter how that might deform them.”

📖 Read our thoughts of DEAD RINGERS (1988) on our ScriptUp Blog https://t.co/jPke3DQSBI

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Colin Farrell had several incidents with animals during the shoot. Jenny, the miniature donkey, kicked him while he was hand-feeding her. The dog portraying Brendan Gleeson's pet bit him. A horse leading a cart Farrell was in sat in tried to reverse the cart into the ocean.

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In a sequential montage, a much longer timeline is condensed into a single sequence.

🎈🏠UP
In just over 4 minutes, the entire lifespan of a relationship, from marriage to funeral, and everything in between, is conveyed with no shortage of detail or emotion.

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🚨Deadline: Nov 17🚨

Are you based in the US?
Disney Entertainment Television Writing Program (12 months FULL TIME) is looking to staff Program Writers on DET series.

📝Two original pilots
👉 Resume
✍️ Staffing pitch for a DET show.
✏️Personal essay

https://t.co/P6AfqLQyXM

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📣Unrepped UK TV writers 📣

One of the most legit UK TV writing opportunities in town.

Disney +'s Extraordinary? Yep, came from this scheme.

Great team securing great outcomes. No entry fee, no bullshit.

✍️ TV pilot script, 27-63 pages
📅Deadline 3rd December

[Thousand Films Scriptwriting Competition @ThousandFilmsTV]

Please Retweet! WE WANT SCRIPTS! Drama and comedy pilot scripts by unrepresented writers in the UK and Ireland. We will take our favourites onto a funded development slate. Deadline is only a few weeks away!
https://t.co/WOp5QjOZxH

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🚨Deadline: Dec 5🚨

@bbcwritersroom Open Call: UK-based writers with drama or comedy-drama scripts for film or TV can apply with a paragraph on your writing history and another on what you hope to get out of the scheme if successful.

https://t.co/aRUkNuj949

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"Rather than attempting the impossible task of adapting NAKED LUNCH literally, Cronenberg treats the disjointed, hallucinatory novel as a secondary source, incorporating Burroughs himself and his well-documented drug habits."

Read our film review:
https://t.co/K51gYwG0TK

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Ambitious description of Goethe's 249-year-old text as a 'hit novel' here, as if it were a new Gillian Flynn 😂

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“The endearingly cheesy practical effects of the original are gone. But Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, revisiting their rock-loving slackers in full middle-aged himbodom, are historical artefects in themselves.”

📖 Our review of BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC https://t.co/wmHctcafEE

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Be organic in your writing.

✍️ It's time to write a script that captivates and inspires 🎥 → https://t.co/4AnUbnD5VJ

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Series co-creator Alec Berg thought that a show about a hitman wouldn't be well-received or funny, until fellow co-creator, Bill Hader, asked "Well, what if the hitman was me?"

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🚨Are you based in Manchester?🚨

Manchester Screenwriting Meet Up are looking for Manchester based screenwriters who want to develop their craft and learn more about screenwriting.

If you’re interested in joining, please email Chris Deakin on [email protected]