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Here at JoBlo Horror Originals we talk a lot about gateway horror films. Depending on the generation you belong to, that can be a few different things. Kids of the 70s will always have Jaws as an introduction to horror and that movie is still a great way to introduce newer generations to the genre after almost 50 years. Two of my favorites from the 80’s, and two films that both my sons have seen, are The Gate and The Monster Squad. Again, both great and both still hold up as not only fun horror flicks but great ways to ease in the younger crowd. As a kid born in 1985, I am much more a child of the 90s so even if you hadn’t read the title of the video you clicked, you could probably guess that I saw Jurassic Park in theaters, it scared and enthralled me and made me want more.

To the world, Carrie Fisher is synonymous with Princess Leia from Star Wars, but she was more than just one role. The late actress was also a gifted script doctor, although this may be unknown to some of her fans because most of the time, she was uncredited.

Carrie Fisher in Star Wars / Lucasfilm

Simply put, Fisher helped in rewriting and improving movie scripts. In fact, she became so sought-after in this field that some filmmakers would approach her to ask for help or guidance.

Carrie Fisher On Why She Stopped Working As A Script Doctor

Speaking with Newsweek in 2008, actress Carrie Fisher talked about her unrecognized profession as a script doctor. She worked on the job for many years, but she never really got the appreciation she deserved in her lifetime.

Related“If you touch her…”: Carrie Fisher Had a 3-Month Long Romance With Harrison Ford After Her...

Fisher's screenplays show her successful career as a Hollywood writer beyond her iconic role as Princess Leia in Star Wars. She was a sought-after script doctor, improving completed screenplays for big movies like Hook and Sister Act with her unique touch. Fisher's legacy includes her significant contributions to well-known movies like The Wedding Singer and even the Star Wars prequels.

Though she certainly reached iconic status for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, Carrie Fisher's screenplays show the surprising and successful career she had behind the scenes as a Hollywood writer. Fisher was cast as Princess Leia when she was still a teenager and went on to play the role over the course of the original trilogy before subsequently returning in Star Wars: The Force Awakens to kick off the new trilogy. When Fisher died in 2016, she left behind a wonderful legacy that included an amazing writing career.

It's wild to consider, but there was a moment in Steven Spielberg's historic career when he faced a crucible, and he fell disastrously short.

The year was 1991. Spielberg had entered middle age and was still trying to segue from the escapist entertainment that had made him one of the most successful filmmakers of all time to dramas with loftier intentions. It worked at first. His 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was a respectful, emotionally devastating tale of a Black woman's hard-won liberation in the segregated South of the early 20th century. It was a box-office smash that received 11 Academy Award nominations, but Spielberg was mystifyingly denied a Best Director nod. When the film won zero Oscars, it felt personal, especially after he won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.

His next serious film, 1987's "Empire of the Sun," based on J.G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel,...

Fans of fairytale origins got a first look at the stars of “The School for Good And Evil” on Tuesday, after a teaser was debuted during Netflix’s Geeked Week event. Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso star as Agatha and Sophie, respectively, two best friends who are kidnapped and placed in the School for Good and Evil and must find their way back home.

“Did you ever wonder where every great fairytale begins?,” Charlize Theron, who plays Lady Lesso, asks in the teaser. “Where the good become heroes and the evil become villains? Welcome, we’ve been expecting you.”

The film, directed by Paul Feig, is adapted from the 2013 novel by Soman Chainani. David Magee, Laura Solon, Malia Scotch Marmo and Chainani wrote the screenplay for the film, which features a star-studded cast that includes Kerry Washington, Ben Kingsley, Patti LuPone, Rachel Bloom, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Flatters,...

Exclusive: The Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab has accepted 15 writers from countries including the U.S., Lebanon, South Africa, Turkey and the UK who will bring 12 projects to the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah from January 18-23.

The January Screenwriters Lab was created and organized under the leadership of Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program Founding Director Michelle Satter and Labs Director Ilyse McKimmie. The team of Creative Advisors includes Artistic Director Dana Stevens, Michael Arndt, Thomas Bidegain, Todd Graff, Phil Hay, Erik Jendresen, Richard Lagravenese, Jenny Lumet, Malia Scotch Marmo, Walter Mosley, Nicole Perlman, Susan Shilliday, Zach Sklar, Elena Soarez, Veena Sud, Robin Swicord, Joan Tewkesbury and Tyger Williams. This year’s Lab is dedicated to the memory of two cherished Creative Advisors: Tom Rickman and Audrey Wells. The Lab provides one-on-one story sessions for Fellows with the Creative Advisors. The Lab is the first step in a year-round continuum...

When Hook arrived in 1991, it wasn't met with the type of fanfare one might associate with a Steven Spielberg movie. Critics loathed it, most fans didn't like it, and over the years it's been called on of the worst in the man's back catalogue of true classics. But there's a faction of very young kids who grew up with the movie, and they're now adults, and somehow Hook became a beloved take on the Peter Pan fairy tale. Now, those fans who just can't get enough of Robin Williams as the boy who never grew up will be able to enjoy Hook in 4k Ultra HD this fall.

Just in time for the holiday season, take a trip back to Never Never Land with the timeless classic Hook, debuting on 4K Ultra HD and on Digital in 4K with Hdr October 9 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Internationally-acclaimed director Steven Spielberg's...

Jurassic Park remains one of the most beloved and highly regarded blockbuster movies ever made. The movie features some of the most thrilling action sequences ever put to film, such as the very famous T-Rex and velociraptor fight sequence that serves as the movie's climax. However, as some recently revealed early storyboards show, that iconic scene wasn't going to be the finale of Jurassic Park.

Some of Phil Tippet's personal collections were just sold at auction. For those who may not know, Phil Tippet, who is a visual effects legend in Hollywood, served as a special effects supervisor and is credited as the "dinosaur supervisor" on Jurassic Park and was heavily involved in the movie. The Jurassic Time Facebook page got their hands on some of these items, which included very early storyboards with alternate scenes that didn't end up in the movie. The most significant of these changes revealed...

It has not been an easy week. At the start of the week, we had our editorial meeting here at HitFix, as we do every Monday, to talk about both the week ahead and longer-term projects as well. For fairly obvious reasons, there was a fair amount of talk about Valentine's Day content, and I mentioned a few different ideas that I might write about, including one that I'll end up publishing at some point about Steve Martin. But even as I pitched a few ideas, I found myself uncomfortable with the entire idea of writing about romantic films right now. Honestly, I was hoping to spend this week with my head down and then just sail right through this weekend without writing about love at all, because for the first time in my adult life, I am no longer sure what I think about it. After all, I was with my wife for 14 years.

Hook

Written by James V. Hart, Nick Castle, Malia Scotch Marmo, and J. M. Barrie

Directed by Steven Spielberg

USA, 1991

Steven Spielberg is known the world over for creating genuine movie magic. From his blockbuster splash Jaws in 1975 up until his 2012 biopic Lincoln, Spielberg is certainly a gifted filmmaker. Very few auteurs are still work today but Spielberg keeps banging out films that dazzle the senses and leave an everlasting impression on the viewer. However, some of Spielberg’s films haven’t achieved the recognition and respect they deserve. There are certain films that this movie master made that didn’t quite achieve a high status. One such film is 1991’s Hook, a fantasy adventure which didn’t really score well with critics but filled children of the 90s with joy, innocence, and wonder.

The film follows middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a bitter individual who has forgotten who he is.

The Mumbai Mantra Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab announced the eight fellows of the 2014 lab today.

Ashvin Kumar (Noor) Bornila Chatterjee (Nuclear Hearts) Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover (Fly Away Solo) Gaurav Madan (Shaktipur Crude) Deepanjali B Sarkar (Svadharma) Sanjay Talreja (The River Murder) Navneet Behal (Experiments with Truth), co-written with Maitrey Bajpai and Ramiz Ilham Khan Dylan Mohan Gray (The Last Day of Winter), co-written with Vikramaditya Motwane)

The selected writers will be mentored by American and Indian screenwriters such as Golden Globe winner Naomi Foner (Running on Empty, Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and Oscar nomination in the same category), Sooni Taraporevala (Salaam Bombay). Here is the complete list of mentors:-

Naomi Foner

Michael Handelman

Dante Harper

James V Hart

Anjum Rajabali

Malia Scotch Marmo

Elena Soarez

Sooni Taraporevala

Rose Troche...

As we told you exactly a week ago, Roth Films teamed up with Jane Startz Productions to acquire film rights to Soman Chainani's fantasy novel The School for Good and Evil, and now they have a studio involved.

Per Deadline, following a spirited auction, Universal Pictures won the property in a seven-figure deal for book and scriptwriting fees. It's an easy fit for Roth and his top exec Palak Patel, both of whom will produce with Jane Startz. Roth and Patel produced Snow White and The Huntsman at Universal, and have a sequel in the works. They are also working with the studio on Daughter of Smoke & Bone, an adaptation of Laini Taylor’s novel that also has franchise potential.

Chainani and Hook scribe Malia Scotch Marmo are attached to write the screenplay. Coincidentally, Scotch Marmo was one of Chainani’s professors when she was in college.

The School...

Producer Joe Roth does enjoy his fairy-tale reimaginings.  His recent films including Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman, Oz the Great and Powerful, and the upcoming Maleficent, which is the tale of Sleeping Beauty told from the villain's perspective.  Since Alice and Oz were both monster hits, it's not surprise that Roth is now planning another fairy-tale* movie.  According to Deadline, Roth has picked up the rights for Soman Chainani's new young adult novel, The School for Good and Evil.  The story takes place in a school where students are chosen and trained to become heroes or villains.  The beautiful Sophie expects to be a princess in the School for Good while her homely best friend Agatha readies herself to be a witch in the School for Evil.  But when they arrive, their roles are reversed.  It sounds like a fun premise that's reminiscent of the opening of Wicked.

Producer Joe Roth (Oz the Great and Powerful) and Jane Startz have acquired the rights to an upcoming supernatural fantasy novel trilogy called The School for Good and Evil. They've hired Hook screenwriter Malia Scotch Marmo to co-write the film with the book's author Soman Chainani.

The book will be published by HarperCollins on May 14th, and it sounds like a fun story. It centers on an ordinary group of "boys and girls who are kidnapped from their homes and sent to The School for Good and Evil, where they are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains, princesses and witches." I can actually see this making for a great movie.

Here's a trailer for the book and an official description with more details:

At the School for Good and Evil, failing your fairy tale is not an option.

Welcome to the School for Good and Evil, where best...

Fantasy is all the rage these days, and Roth Films has taken note. Fresh off of having produced Oz: The Great and Powerful, Deadline reports that the production company has teamed up with Jane Starz Productions to acquire the rights to the fantasy novel The School for Good and Evil.

Written by Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil is the first part in a planned trilogy that follows children plucked from their homes and sent to a school where they will be trained to become “fairy tale heroes and villains, princesses, and witches.” The School for Good and Evil focuses on a young beauty named Sophie, who is placed in the School for Evil, while her best friend, the homely Agatha, is sent to the School for Good. Naturally, they find their fortunes reversed and are forced to confront their true, albeit unexpected, destinies.

The script will be...

Exclusive: Oz The Great And Powerful’s Roth Films has partnered with Jane Startz Productions to acquired movie rights to The School For Good And Evil, the first title in a novel trilogy by Soman Chainani that will be published in the U.S. by HarperCollins on May 14 and in the U.K. on June 6. The trilogy tells the story of ordinary boys and girls who are kidnapped from their homes and sent to The School for Good and Evil, where they are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains, princesses and witches. The protagonist is Sophie, a beauty who is dumped into the School for Evil while her homely best friend Agatha is taken to the School for Good. Both girls find their fortunes reversed and are forced to confront the truth about their unexpected destinies. Chainani and Hook scribe Malia Scotch Marmo are attached to write the screenplay.

Mumbai Mantra|Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab 2013 announced the eight fellows of the second edition of the lab on Sunday.

The creative advisers of the Lab are: Screenwriters Bill Wheeler (The Hoax, The Reluctant Fundamentalist), Anjum Rajabali (Ghulam, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, Raajneeti), Malia Scotch Marmo (Hook, Jurrasic Park), Sabrina Dhawan (Monsoon Wedding, Kaminey, Ishqiya); BAFTA award winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (The Warrior, Senna); Mexican screenwriter, director and film producer Carlos Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Solo Con Tu Pareja); Indian screenwriter and director Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar, Ishaqzaade); writer-director Joshua Marston (The Forgiveness of Blood, Maria Full of Grace) and writer-producer Marti Noxon ( I Am Number Four, Fright Night).

Selected projects:

Betamax by Terrie Samundra

Betamax is set in the summer of 1976 in London on the brink of a youth uprising. The South Asian ghetto of Southall pulses with the sounds of dancehall, punk and bhangra. Gurmel, a Sikh cornershop owner,...

Vikas Chandra was selected for the inaugural edition of Mumbai Mantra—Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab in India for his script ‘Toothache’. He, along with seven other screenplay writers, participated in a 5 day- workshop in Lonavla. Vikas Chandra sums up his learning from the workshop in this article:

Your donkeys are not carrying enough load!

In the beginning I had no clue on how to prepare or even what to expect from the lab. Worse, I was gripped with the fear that in no time I would be exposed as a writer!

I expected to be bombarded with questions I had no answers to, at least not at that moment. With such apprehensions, I approached my first session, which was with Audrey Wells.

Thankfully – nothing of the above happened.

We started talking about the central character in my script. Why did I choose my protagonist? What do I like about her?...

Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program and Film Society of Lincoln Center are partnering to celebrate 25 years of the Columbia University Film Festival. Events include a presentation of some of the best short films from Columbia graduates over the last 25 years and a panel of some of Columbia's successful women filmmakers including Lisa Cholodenko, Nicole Holofcener, Larysa Kondracki and Kimberly Peirce. Screenwriter Malia Scotch Marmo will also be presented with the Andrew Sarris Award which is selected by current School of the Arts Film Program students. More than 40 student thesis short films and feature screenplays will premiere during the weeklong festival. Press release and schedule of events below: Columbia University Film Festival Celebrates 25 Years Malia Scotch Marmo to receive prestigious Andrew Sarris Award “What Glass Ceiling? The Remarkable Success of Columbia’s Women Filmmakers” panel to...

Below is the press release announcing the projects for the Sundance January Screenwriters Lab.

Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its annual January Screenwriters Lab, an immersive, five-day (January 13-18) writers’ workshop at the Sundance Resort in Utah. Participating independent screenwriters – drawn from around the world, including the United States, China, South Africa, and Europe – will have the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking.

Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, said, “We are very excited to support these filmmakers who are giving voice to a world in transition with a diverse range of stories, genres and contemporary themes. Fueled by their creativity and a deeply personal stake in these stories, the filmmakers are infusing their scripts with rich characters, authentic worlds and uniquely singular visions.

The Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its annual January Screenwriters Lab, that takes place January 13-18 in Utah. The selected Fellows will work with a group of creative advisors, including Lab Artistic Director Scott Frank, Lisa Cholodenko, Geoffrey Fletcher, Naomi Foner, John Gatins, Susannah Grant, John Lee Hancock, Nicole Holofcener, Malia Scotch Marmo, Walter Mosley, Jessie Nelson, Martin Rejtman, Howard Rodman, Susan Shilliday, Zach Sklar, Dana Stevens and Joachim Trier. Below are the 2012 January screenwriters lab Fellows and projects (synopses courtesy of Sundance Institute):   Jonas Carpignano (writer/director) / A Chjàna (Italy/U.S.A.): After leaving his native Burkina Faso in search of a better life, Ayiva makes the perilous journey to Italy; though he finds compatriots along the way, they are unprepared for the intolerance facing immigrants in their newly-claimed home. Jonas Carpignano is an Italian-American filmmaker...

The Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for its annual January Screenwriters Lab, an intensive five-day writers’ workshop held January 13-18 at Utah's Sundance Resort. These indie screenwriters from around the world will work on their feature film scripts with support from veteran writers. Many of these films do wind up getting made and often are shown at the Sundance Film Festival. Led by Lab Artistic Director Scott Frank this year's Sundance creative advisors include Lisa Cholodenko, Geoffrey Fletcher, Naomi Foner, John Gatins, Susannah Grant, John Lee Hancock, Nicole Holofcener, Malia Scotch Marmo, Walter Mosley, Jessie Nelson, Martin Rejtman, Howard Rodman,...

Stony Brook Southhampton, part of Stonybrook University in Southhampton, N.Y., will hold its second annual Screenwriting Conference from July 29-Aug. 2.

Participants will include screenwriters Andrew Bienen and Malia Scotch Marmo, producers Peter Reigert and Susan Landau and playwright Frank Pugliese. The conference will close with an evening with Alec Baldwin and playwright Jon Robin Baitz.

NEW YORK -- The Sundance Institute will workshop 13 projects at its January Screenwriters Lab, steered by a who's who of indie writers, including artistic director Scott Frank, Paul Attanasio, Kasi Lemmons, Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and Doug Wright.

Towelhead author Alicia Erian, whose novel was adapted for Alan Ball's upcoming Nothing Is Private, is developing a script about an American who faces repercussions after helping a Salvadoran immigrant in Hammer and Anvil.

The other projects include Liu Hao's Beijing romance Addicted to Love; John Magary's family drama "Blood Abundance, or the Half-Life of Antoinette"; Ryan Knighton's autobiographical blindness drama Cockeyed; and Hadar Friedlich's Israeli profile Hannah M.

Patrick Vala-Haynes' father-son drama The Henchman; Moon Molson's crime drama Meadowlandz; Daniel Casey's Polish-American boxing story Poletown; and Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa and Karen Sztajnberg's Brazilian coming-of-age drama Quotas also made the cut.

Rounding out the list are Liza Johnson's portrait of a military mother, Return; Hicham Ayouch's Moroccan Muslim drama Samba Do Maazouuz; Frank Budgen's adult U.K. fairy tale, Shockheaded Peter; and Darrell Dennis' study of a Native American woman in Canada, Tales of an Urban Indian.

Other Screenwriters Lab advisers include Rodrigo Garcia, Dan Kleinman, Fernando Leon de Aranoa, Malia Scotch Marmo, Christopher McQuarrie, Walter Mosley, Tom Rickman, Howard Rodman, Susan Shilliday, Zachary Sklar, Dana Stevens, Thomas Vinterberg and Tyger Williams.

Luis Mandoki has been hired to direct The Winged Boy for Gold Circle Films. Boy is a based on an unpublished story by Mary Hayley Bell, widow of the late actor John Mills. Described as a family film with a slice of magical realism, the story centers on a young boy in a contemporary Irish village who begins to grow wings and then starts to fly. The screenplay was co-written by Bell's grandson Crispian Mills and Michael Geary. Malia Scotch Marmo is rewriting. The picture is slated for production in Ireland and the U.K. in the spring.

Luis Mandoki has been hired to direct The Winged Boy for Gold Circle Films. Boy is a based on an unpublished story by Mary Hayley Bell, widow of the late actor John Mills. Described as a family film with a slice of magical realism, the story centers on a young boy in a contemporary Irish village who begins to grow wings and then starts to fly. The screenplay was co-written by Bell's grandson Crispian Mills and Michael Geary. Malia Scotch Marmo is rewriting. The picture is slated for production in Ireland and the U.K. in the spring.