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		<title>The Social Network named Best Picture by Online Film Critics Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric M. Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a member of the Online Film Critics Society it is my duty and pleasure to vote in the OFCS Awards to honor the greatest achievements in the movies.  This year&#8217;s winners probably won&#8217;t surprise anyone, and all are deserving of such high recognition.  However, I think the only winner I voted for was Hailee Steinfeld for [...]]]></description>
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As a member of the Online Film Critics Society it is my duty and pleasure to vote in the OFCS Awards to honor the greatest achievements in the movies.  This year&#8217;s winners probably won&#8217;t surprise anyone, and all are deserving of such high recognition.  However, I think the only winner I voted for was Hailee Steinfeld for &#8220;True Grit.&#8221;  To find out who else I thought shined at the movies 2010 be sure to look out for my Top Movies of 2010 list.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Social Network,&#8221; the dramatized examination of the personalities and incidents behind the launch of the Facebook social media movement, was named Best Picture in the 14th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards. The film also won in the categories of Best Director (David Fincher) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin).</p>
<p>The OFCS Awards for acting were divided among a quartet of productions: Colin Firth in &#8220;The King’s Speech&#8221; for Best Actor, Natalie Portman in &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; for Best Actress, Christian Bale in &#8220;The Fighter&#8221; for Best Supporting Actor and Hailee Steinfield in &#8220;True Grit&#8221; for Best Supporting Actress. &#8220;True Grit&#8221; was also honored for Roger Deakins’ cinematography.</p>
<p>&#8220;Inception&#8221; received two awards: Christopher Nolan for Best Original Screenplay and Lee Smith for Best Editing. &#8220;Toy Story 3&#8243; was named Best Animated Feature, &#8220;Exit Through the Gift Shop&#8221; received the Best Documentary Award, and the South Korean production &#8220;Mother&#8221; was named Best Picture Not in the English Language.</p>
<p>The complete list of winners of the 2010 OFCS Awards follows:</p>
<p>Picture: &#8220;The Social Network&#8221;<br />
Director: David Fincher &#8220;The Social Network&#8221;<br />
Actor: Colin Firth &#8220;The King&#8217;s Speech&#8221;<br />
Actress: Natalie Portman &#8220;Black Swan&#8221;<br />
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale &#8220;The Fighter&#8221;<br />
Supporting Actress: Hailee Steinfeld &#8220;True Grit&#8221;<br />
Original Screenplay: Christopher Nolan &#8220;Inception&#8221;<br />
Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin &#8220;The Social Network&#8221;<br />
Foreign Language Film: &#8220;Mother&#8221;<br />
Documentary: &#8220;Exit Through The Gift Shop&#8221;<br />
Animated Feature: &#8220;Toy Story 3&#8243;<br />
Cinematography: Roger Deakins &#8220;True Grit&#8221;<br />
Editing: Lee Smith &#8220;Inception&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership consists of film reviewers, journalists and scholars based in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Asia/Pacific Rim region. For more information, visit the Online Film Critics Society at <a href="http://www.ofcs.org/2011/01/social-network-named-best-picture-in.html" target="_blank">www.ofcs.org</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>The Black List 2009: Most Popular Unproduced Scripts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric M. Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Black List is a famous Hollywood list of the best, or at least most popular, screenplays &#8220;compiled every year from the suggestions of 311 film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2009 and will not be released [...]]]></description>
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The Black List is a famous Hollywood list of the best, or at least most popular, screenplays &#8220;compiled every year from the suggestions of 311 film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2009 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year.&#8221;</p>
<p>For a pdf of the full list of 97 scripts <a href="http://blcklst.com/tbl/list/2009_black_list.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a>.  For the official website and Black List blog click <a href="http://blcklst.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.   Read on for a sampling of what&#8217;s on the list:</p>
<p><strong>THE MUPPET MAN</strong> by Christopher Weekes<br />
“The life story and tragic early death of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.”<br />
AGENT William Morris Endeavor – Bill Weinstein, Adriana Alberghetti<br />
MANAGER Circle of Confusion – Britton Rizzio, Lawrence Mattis, Kelly McCormack<br />
Jim Henson Company producing.</p>
<p><strong>THE SOCIAL NETWORK</strong> by Aaron Sorkin<br />
“The story of the founders of the social networking website Facebook and how overnight<br />
success and wealth changed their lives.”<br />
AGENT William Morris Endeavor – Ari Emanuel, Jason Spitz<br />
Sony. Scott Rudin Productions, Michael De Luca Productions, Cean Chaffin, and Dana<br />
Brunetti producing</p>
<p><strong>THE VOICES</strong> by Michael Perry<br />
“A disturbed man attempts to walk the straight-and-narrow while receiving advice from<br />
his ‘talking’ pets.”<br />
AGENT United Talent Agency – Charlie Ferraro, Jenny Maryasis<br />
MANAGER Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment – Aaron Kaplan, Sean Perrone<br />
Vertigo Entertainment producing.</p>
<p><strong>PRISONERS</strong> by Aaron Guzikowski<br />
“After his six-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small town carpenter<br />
butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. Feeling<br />
failed by the law, he captures the man he believes responsible, holding him captive in<br />
a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he&#8217;s convinced are<br />
still alive. But the further he&#8217;s forced to go to get the man to confess, the closer he<br />
comes to losing his soul.”<br />
AGENT William Morris Endeavor &#8211; David Karp, Rich Cook, Adam Levine<br />
MANAGER Madhouse Entertainment<br />
Warner Brothers. Alcon Entertainment, Madhouse Entertainment and Kira Davis producing.</p>
<p><strong>CEDAR RAPIDS</strong> by Phil Johnston<br />
“After his co-worker dies from auto-erotic asphyxiation, an emotionally stunted<br />
insurance salesman from small town Wisconsin takes the man’s place at the division<br />
insurance convention in Iowa City, IA, only to find himself coming out of his shell as<br />
he bonds with his fellow conventioneers and gradually uncovers a money laundering<br />
scheme involving his employer.”<br />
AGENT United Talent Agency – Jason Burns<br />
MANAGER Industry Entertainment – Eryn Brown<br />
Fox Searchlight. Ad Hominem Enterprises producing.</p>
<p><strong>LONDONGRAD</strong> by David Scarpa<br />
“Based on the book by Alan Cowell. The story of the life and subsequent poisoning death<br />
of Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, who<br />
escaped prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom.”<br />
AGENT HML – Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank, Devra Lieb<br />
Warner Brothers. Initial Entertainment Group and Infinitum Nihil producing.</p>
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		<title>Sony Wants to Make &#8216;Moneyball&#8217; Without Soderbergh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric M. Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We reported almost a month ago that Sony&#8217;s Amy Pascal had scrapped Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s &#8220;Moneyball&#8221; only 96 hours before shooting was scheduled to begin.  It turns out that the studio still wants to make the film, but without Soderbergh&#8217;s help. Variety is reporting that Sony is still game for making the baseball flick having hired [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://view.picapp.com/default.aspx?term=steven soderbergh&amp;iid=4678249" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" src="http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/2/5/c/6/The_Girlfriend_Experience_e815.jpg?adImageId=1640926&amp;imageId=4678249" border="0" alt="The Girlfriend Experience Movie Premiere In NYC" width="234" height="317" /></a><script src="http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.js" type="text/javascript"></script>We <a href="http://themovingarts.com/sony-drops-soderberghs-moneyball/" target="_blank">reported</a> almost a month ago that Sony&#8217;s Amy Pascal had scrapped Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s &#8220;Moneyball&#8221; only 96 hours before shooting was scheduled to begin.   It turns out that the studio still wants to make the film, but without Soderbergh&#8217;s help.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005824.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1" target="_blank">Variety</a> is reporting that Sony is still game for making the baseball flick having hired Aaron Sorkin to cleanup an earlier version of the script by Steve Zaillian.</p>
<p>Brad Pitt hasn&#8217;t wavered and is still attached the adaptation of Michael Lewis&#8217; nonfiction bestseller &#8220;Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,&#8221; but Steven Soderbergh will no longer helm the pic.</p>
<p>After Pascal canned the project because she was afraid the shooting script wasn&#8217;t commercial enough it was put into limited turnaround, but Sony has held on to it hoping Sorkin&#8217;s changes will make it more accessible to the average movie-goer.</p>
<p>The narrative focuses on Oakland A&#8217;s general manager Billy Beane, who molded the club into a top contender despite a shoestring budget.</p>
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