Will they still love her tomorrow?

From AsianWeek.com: With critical plaudits and Oscar talk building around Letters From Iwo Jima, screenwriter Iris Yamashita (who collaborated on the script with Paul Haggis) is already having a good year. But will there be another big job for her? As she notes in this interview, only 7% of feature films in Hollywood are penned by minority writers.

 

Voice-overs make a comeback

From Reuters: Conventional screenwriting wisdom holds that voice- over narration is a no-no. Apparently conventional screenwriting wisdom is wrong.

 

Writers straddle page and screen

From The Hollywood Reporter: While screenwriters Michael Tolkin and Wesley Strick return to the solo satisfactions of novel- writing, these career novelists ponder the hazards of turning over your baby to Hollywood.