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Screenwriter
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One famous screenwriter is Jack Rosenthal, who has written for various TV shows over the years, including Londons Burning and Coronation Street. No education is required to become a screenwriter, just good storytelling abilities. Screenwriters are not hired employees, they are contracted freelancers, most, if not all, screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation, meaning they write without being hired or paid for it. If such a script is sold, it is called a spec script, what separates a professional screenwriter from an amateur screenwriter is that professional screenwriters are usually represented by a talent agency. Also, professional screenwriters do not often work for free, whereas amateur screenwriters will often work for free and are considered writers in training, spec scripts are usually penned by unknown professional screenwriters and amateur screenwriters. There are a legion of would-be screenwriters who attempt to enter the industry but it often takes years of trial-and-error, failure. In Writing Screenplays that Sell, Michael Hague writes Screenplays have become, for the last half of century, closet writers who used to dream of the glory of getting into print now dream of seeing their story on the big or small screen. Every screenplay and teleplay begins with a thought or idea, and screenwriters use those ideas to write scripts, with the intention of selling them and having them produced. In some cases, the script is based on a property, such as a book or persons life story. The majority of the time, a film project gets initiated by a screenwriter and because they initiated the project and these are referred to as exclusive assignments or pitched assignments. Screenwriters who often pitch new projects, whether original or an adaptation, when word is put out about a project a film studio, production company, or producer wants done, these are referred to as open assignments. In situations where screenwriters are competing for an assignment, more established writers will usually win these assignments. A screenwriter can also be approached and personally offered a writing assignment, many screenwriters also work as full or part-time script doctors, attempting to better a script to suit the desires of a director or studio. For instance, studio management may have a complaint that the motivations of the characters are unclear or that the dialogue is weak, script-doctoring can be quite lucrative, especially for the better known writers. David Mamet and John Sayles, for instance, fund the movies they direct themselves, usually from their own screenplays, by writing and doctoring scripts for others. In fact, some writers make very profitable careers out of being the ninth or tenth writer to work on a piece, in many cases, working on projects that never see exposure to an audience of any size. Many up and coming screenwriters also ghost write projects and allow more established screenwriters to take credit for the project to increase the chances of it getting picked up. After a screenwriter finishes a project, he or she pairs with a representative, such as a producer, director, literary agent, entertainment lawyer
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Magic Mike
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Magic Mike is a 2012 American drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew McConaughey. The plot revolves around Adam, a 19-year-old who enters the world of stripping, guided by Mike Lane. The film is based on the experiences of Tatum, who was an 18-year-old stripper in San Francisco. Magic Mike was filmed in locations around west central Florida. The film premiered as the film for the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 24,2012, and was widely released by Warner Bros. on June 29,2012. A sequel, Magic Mike XXL directed by Gregory Jacobs, was released on July 1,2015, Mike soon meets 19-year-old Adam, a recent college dropout looking for a construction job. Mike takes Adam under his wing and encourages him to begin stripping at Xquisite, Mike is introduced to Adams sister Brooke. Despite his on-and-off relationship with a woman named Joanna, Mike finds himself attracted to Brooke, Adam falls further into the excessive lifestyle of the Xquisite dancers, using drugs and having sexual encounters with many clients. The bank declines his loan application and Mike realizes that he has to stay in the business to continue to pay his bills. Adam begins using drugs regularly, and Mike notices more of Adams reckless behavior, a few days later, Mike and Adam perform for a private party at a sorority house where Adam brings the package of drugs with him. At the party, Adam gives a young woman an ecstasy pill causing a brawl between Adam and the womans boyfriend, Mike and Adam are forced to flee without the drugs, which Adam says were worth $1,000. They also do not collect their payment, which infuriates Dallas, after the next nights show, Mike and Adam take drugs and go to a club. Adam vomits and passes out, Brooke finds him on Mikes floor the next morning, Brooke angrily confronts Mike about his lifestyle, and ends her friendship with him. Tobias and his suppliers break into Mikes house looking for Adam, Mike gives up most of his life savings to pay Adams debt in full. Later, before the final performance at Xquisite, Mike decides he has had enough. Knowing that Dallas has no loyalty to any of them and is driven by greed, after realizing Mike is not coming back, Dallas promotes Adam to replace Mike as lead dancer. Mike drives to Brookes apartment and tells her he has quit stripping and she has learned what he did for Adam, and she invites him to join her for breakfast. She playfully asks what they can do until morning, and then kisses him, Channing Tatum as Michael Magic Mike Lane, a male stripper who performs at Xquisite
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Earth Made of Glass (film)
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Earth Made of Glass is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Deborah Scranton, about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Filming occurred in Rwanda and France and it premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, in the World Documentary Competition, on April 26,2010. Earth Made of Glass aired on HBO TV in April 2011, the film won a Peabody Award in 2012. The influence of French military interference in Rwanda plus the Belgian occupation are explained, meanwhile, survivor Jean-Pierre Sagahutu, whose family had died during the violence, seeks to track down the man who had murdered them. Sagahutu eventually finds the culprit and decides what to do next, the public reception to the film was generally positive. The group Rotten Tomatoes has not rated the film
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Paramount Pictures
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Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and these fortunate few would become the first movie stars. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, followed by the Nordisk Film company. It is the last major film studio headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company, hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time. By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success and its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah Bernhardt. That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, the Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. DeMille, who would find a site in Hollywood, near Los Angeles, for his first feature film. Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies, Paramount was the first successful nationwide distributor, until this time, films were sold on a statewide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation, in 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount. Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one, with only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its Paramount Pictures soon dominated the business. It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, the driving force behind Paramounts rise was Zukor. In 1926, Zukor hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg and they purchased the Robert Brunton Studios, a 26-acre facility at 5451 Marathon Street for US$1 million. In 1927, Famous Players-Lasky took the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, three years later, because of the importance of the Publix Theatres, it became Paramount Publix Corporation. In 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps, animated cartoons produced by Max, the Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, were among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney. The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from 1927 to 1957, Paramount was also one of the first Hollywood studios to release what were known at that time as talkies, and in 1929, released their first musical, Innocents of Paris
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Stop-Loss (film)
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It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films. While it garnered mixed to positive reviews, it earned less than half of its $25 million production budget at the box office, U. S. Army Staff Sergeant Brandon King leads a squad stationed in Tikrit during the Iraq War. The film begins with footage from the tour of the squad, while on duty at a checkpoint, the squad hears gunshots, after which a car speeds past filled with insurgents, one of whom fires an AK-47 at them. Kings men jump into their Humvees and follow the insurgents into an alley, when the soldiers get out of their vehicles, the insurgents ambush them from rooftops. As the firefight ensues, a rocket propelled grenade is discharged, destroying one of the Humvees, shortly after, another RPG is discharged, exploding an Iraqi vehicle. Squad member PFC Tommy Burgess is unfortunately near the vehicle when the RPG is discharged but another soldier, rico Rodriguez, dives on Burgess and saves him. This is at the expense of severely wounding Pvt, shortly after, fellow squad member Paul Preacher Colston, a close friend of Tommy, is shot in the neck and jaw in front of Tommy, and is killed instantly. Later, when Staff Sergeant King enters a house to help injured long-time friend, Steve Shriver, he discovers that he had accidentally killed several Iraqi civilians by throwing a grenade to kill an insurgent in a room, unaware of any civilians present in the area. Brandon is visibly shocked and the ends with three soldiers killed. Upon returning to their Texas hometown of Brazos, Brandon and Steve are decorated with the Bronze Star, Senator takes Brandon aside after the ceremony and offers to help Brandon in any way he can. That night, Steve shows the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and he gets drunk and digs a foxhole in his front yard, and strikes his fiancée Michelle in the face. When Brandon comes over to check on Steve, he is unable to get through to him, Tommy drives over drunk after his wife has kicked him out. The next day, Brandon suggests that they all go to the ranch, the men pass the time by drinking and watching Tommy shoot his wedding gifts, after their friend Shorty reads the cards. Upon hearing the commotion, a hungover Steve awakens and shoots the cards to silence them, the next day, Brandon, Tommy and Steve report to their military base. He refuses to comply and goes AWOL, becoming a deserter, Michelle sympathizes with Brandons refusal and offers to travel with him to Washington, D. C. to see the Senator who offered to assist Brandon earlier. During a multi-day drive to Washington, D. C, Brandon calls the Senators office and is told that because he is now a fugitive, the Senator is not interested in seeing him. After Michelle phones Steve to tell him of their location, he arrives in uniform to take Brandon back. Brandon refuses to return and Michelle is furious with Steve for re-enlisting, Brandon and Michelle finally reach New York City and meet with the lawyer, who gives Brandon forged papers and a passport which would allow him to flee to Canada in exchange for payment of $1000
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White House Down
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The films screenplay is by James Vanderbilt, and it stars Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jason Clarke, Joey King, and Richard Jenkins in supporting roles. The film was released on June 28,2013 and grossed $206 million worldwide, President of the United States James Sawyer generates controversy over a proposed peace treaty between the allied nations to remove military forces from the Middle East. Divorced US Capitol Police officer John Cale is currently assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson after saving his nephews life during a tour in Afghanistan. Disguised as a janitor, a man detonates a bomb at the center of the US Capitol building, causing the White House to be on lockdown. Finnerty is sent to escort the Speaker to a command center in the Pentagon. Cale manages to escape to go find his daughter, who was separated from him during the tour, retiring Head of the Presidential Detail Martin Walker escorts Sawyer and his detail to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Once they gain access, Walker kills his detail, revealing himself to be the leader of the attack on the White House. He wants vengeance against Sawyer after a black ops mission resulted in the death of his son. Cale kills a mercenary, takes his gun and radio, Walker and Stenz bring in Skip Tyler to hack into the defense system, but still require Sawyer to activate the nuclear football. One of the mercenaries, Carl Killick, catches Emily recording a video of the mercenaries and takes her hostage, Cale and Sawyer contact the command structure, which uses Emilys video to discover the identities of the mercenaries, who used to work for various government agencies. Cale and Sawyer try to escape via a tunnel but find the exit gate rigged with explosives and they are forced into the garage and escape in the presidential limo, which is attacked by Stenz and flips into the White House pool. After Sawyer and Cale are presumed dead in an explosion, Hammond is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Cale and Sawyer are still alive and learn that Hammond ordered an aerial incursion to take back the White House, having already learned of Emily from the video, Stenz takes her to Walker in the Oval Office. Tyler finishes hacking into NORAD and launches a missile to shoot down Air Force One, killing Hammond, Raphelson is sworn in as the 48th President of the United States and orders an air strike on the White House. Sawyer surrenders himself to Walker to save Emily, Walker attempts to force Sawyer to use the football to launch the nuclear missiles against the various cities in Iran, which will result in retaliation by many countries. Sawyer refuses at first, while Cale sets various rooms on fire as a diversion, down in the tunnels, Tyler accidentally detonates the explosives, killing him. After killing most of the mercenaries and freeing the hostages, Cale confronts Stenz. Sawyer attacks Walker, who uses Sawyers handprint to activate the football before apparently executing him, Walker locks Irans targets, but before he can initiate the launch, Cale kills him
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22 Jump Street
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It is the sequel to the 2012 film 21 Jump Street, based on the television series of the same name. The film was released on June 13,2014, by Columbia Pictures, the film received positive reviews and earned over $331 million at the box office. A crossover with Men in Black, MIB23, is in development, with Lord and Miller acting as producers, the crossover will replace a 23 Jump Street film. Two years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt and their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a drug known as WHY-PHY that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Jenko quickly makes friends with a pair of jocks named Zook and Rooster, Jenko starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Schmidt. Meanwhile, Schmidt gets the attention of an art student, Maya, despite sleeping together, Maya tells Schmidt not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Jenko bonds more and more with Zook who encourages him to join the football team. When Schmidt and Jenko are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters, after confessing the two are having regular intercourse, Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Zook and Rooster, Jenko notices that Rooster does not have the tattoo, Schmidt and Jenko are invited to join the fraternity led by the jocks but Schmidt refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Jenko passes their requirements. They later realize that Zook is not the dealer but rather another customer, soon afterwards, they find Ghost and his men on campus, but Ghost again evades them. Jenko reveals to Schmidt that he has offered a football scholarship with Zook and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. Afterwards, Schmidt reveals his identity and moves out of the dorm. Spring break arrives and Schmidt goes after Ghost and he is joined by Jenko, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where Ghost is likely to be dealing WHY-PHY, inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is Ghosts daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Dickson and the rest of Jump Street, Ghost flees, while Mercedes is knocked out by Schmidt. While pursuing Ghost, Jenko is then shot in the shoulder, Ghost attempts to escape in a helicopter, Schmidt and Jenko manage to jump across to it, but they fall into the sea due to Jenkos injured arm. However, Jenko is able to throw a grenade into the helicopter, back on land, Jenko tells Schmidt that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Dickson approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a med school, during the credits, Jenko and Schmidt go on to a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as fictional sequels, an animated series, and a toy line. One mission features Detective Booker while another sees the return of Ghost, in a post-credits scene, Walters reveals to Eric that he is late, implying he is pregnant
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Development of Gambit
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X-Men is an American film series and shared universe that is centered on a series of superhero films, produced by 20th Century Fox. The series is based on the superhero team of the same name. A prequel, X-Men, First Class, was released in 2011, followed by X-Men, Days of Future Past in 2014, Deadpool was also released in 2016, and became the highest-grossing film of the series. X-Men, X2, X-Men, First Class, X-Men, Days of Future Past, X-Men and X2 were particularly lauded by critics for their dark, realistic tones and subtexts dealing with discrimination and intolerance. X-Men, The Last Stand and X-Men, Apocalypse were met with mixed reviews, while X-Men Origins, with ten films released, the X-Men film series is the seventh-highest-grossing film series, having grossed over US$4.9 billion worldwide. Deadpool holds the record for the highest-grossing worldwide R-rated film of all time, the film franchise has expanded to include comic books, a short film, a television series and videogames. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, Hugh Jackman has appeared the most in the franchise, portraying the Wolverine. The film introduces Wolverine and Rogue into the conflict between Professor Xaviers X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto, in 1994, 20th Century Fox and producer Lauren Shuler Donner bought the film rights to the X-Men. Andrew Kevin Walker was hired to write, and James Cameron expressed interest in producing, eventually, Bryan Singer signed on to direct in July 1996. Although he was not a comic fan, Singer was fascinated by the analogies of prejudice. John Logan, Joss Whedon, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie, principal photography began in September 1999 in Toronto, Canada, and ended in March 2000. The film was released on July 14,2000, in the film, Colonel William Stryker brainwashes and questions the imprisoned Magneto about Professor Xaviers mutant-locating machine, Cerebro. Stryker attacks the X-Mansion and brainwashes Xavier into locating every mutant on the planet to kill them, the X-Men must team up with the Brotherhood to prevent Strykers worldwide genocide. Hayter and Zak Penn were hired to write their own scripts for the sequel, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were hired to re-write the script in February 2002, writing around 26 drafts and 150 on set. Principal photography began in June 2002 in Vancouver, Canada, the film was released on May 2,2003. In the film, a company has developed a suppressor of the mutant gene. Magneto declares war on the humans and retrieves his own weapon, Phoenix, a final battle between the X-Men and the Brotherhood ensues, and Wolverine must accept that in order to stop Grey, he will have to kill her. Singer initially intended to shoot the film back-to-back with a fourth film, Penn and Simon Kinberg were hired the following month
