From the Telegraph (U.K.)

Tut-tut, old chap. Actor, TV presenter, and screenwriter Julian (Gosford Park) Fellowes bats one for the home team in a lecture -- and I do mean lecture -- to the Cheltenham Screenwriters' Festival. Fellowes' screenwriting career began when Robert Altman brought him onto Gosford Park because he knew Britain's privileged class from the inside out. Now Fellowes finds himself absolutely appalled by the sorts of films being pitched these days: "Someone was talking about a film about drug traffickers where one of the characters ended up in a woman's prison. And someone said, 'Oh well, of course, I understand why you want to do this because it's real life'. Now, of course, it is real life, but whose real life is it?" Hmmm, some of us had the same reaction to Gosford Park.

 

From solomanrothman.com

Never let it be said you can't get your movie out there. Very indie filmmaker Soloman Rothman shot his feature, The Boy Who Never Slept, on digital for $200. And now you may watch the whole thing for free on his website.

 

From The Guardian (U.K.)

David (The Hours) Hare presents the case for Harold Pinter, Screenwriter

 

From L.A. Weekly

At age 92, legendary screenwriter Budd (On the Waterfront) Schulberg still has a lot of stories in him, even if he's not putting them down on paper as much anymore. Here, his 25 year-old son reveals that Schulberg, while serving in the Navy, arrested Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl and hauled her off to Nuremberg.

 

From Yahoo! Movies

Fairy tales can come true, it could happen to you. Bisbee, Arizona writer and waiter Brandon Murphy hits paydirt with his first screenplay, Pony Bush. (Mind you, it helps to have an ex-girlfriend who works for a production company in L.A.)