Stay tuned for weekly updates in the screenwriting world, gleaning popular industry stories and breaking news for a writers-week-in-review. Plus! – click on the selected names for in-depth interviews with corresponding writers and filmmakers, hosted by AFF’s On Story Project.
2014 AFF Comedy Vanguard feature The Last Time You Had Fun got picked up by Gravitas Ventures
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2012 Outstanding Television Writer awardee Chris Carter to bring The X-Files back to television
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Brian Koppelman and David Levien to helm new Showtime drama Billions, starring Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti
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Sarah Polley to adapt and remake Little Women for Sony, with AFF Alum Robin Swicord to produce
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More casting developments in Jonathan Demme directed/Diablo Cody penned film, Ricky and the Flash
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Sony has their sights on Scott Frank for The Seven Five adaptation
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Michael Green to remake Sidney Lumet’s 1974 detective drama, Murder on the Orient Express
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Hollywood’s search for films about justice; new Marshall Herskovitz/Edward Zwick film in development
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Ava DuVernay’s moving keynote address at 2015 SXSW on YouTube
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