Jason Segel was sixteen pounds for film
(AP) – Jason Segel was forced to fall by the boss of film company Universal Pictures. The 32-year-old actor had nearly sixteen pounds a credible husband of actress Emily Blunt to play in The Five-Year Engagement.
“I was told that it had to be conceivable that Emily Blunt would ever choose me as a man. And rightly so,” says Segel of the American talk show Late Show with David Letterman. Jason Segel has also co-authored the screenplay of the film. He played with the 29-year-old actress starring.
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Gerard Joling Gordon misses sometimes
(AP) – Former Topper Gerard Joling Gordon mist regularly. “I must confess that I secretly Gordon, who this year is no longer participates, sometimes wrong,” Joling writes in his column in The Guardian.
Joling especially miss the humor of Gordon. “The jokes and especially the stabbing under water.” However, the 52-year-old Gerard also laugh with co-Toppers Rene Froger and Jeroen van der Boom. “The humor is not the air.”
Joling, Froger and Gordon started in 2005 as an occasional trio. In 2008, Gerard went after many quarrels with Gordon from the group after his place was filled by Jeroen van der Boom.
Gordon moved in 2009 to work later that year with Joling back to join the Toppers. Last year Gordon hung his glitter costume again to retire to focus on his own group, Los Angeles, the Voices and television work.
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Bobby Brown throws it to bargain with Justice
(AP / AP) – Bobby Brown has managed to avoid imprisonment. The 43-year-old ex of the late Whitney Houston in late March was arrested for driving under the influence. Brown was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation.
In addition, Brown a ninety-day alcohol course. The singer, who earlier denied that he with one gulp crawled behind the wheel, said Wednesday in the middle or he was driving under the influence.
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Owen Wilson back in action movie
(AP) – Owen Wilson is in the action drama The Coup play. The comic actor plays the father of a family that moves to the southeast of Asia, writes the American movie and TV site Deadline.
In The Coup, the family is faced with a coup and the city where they live overpowered by violent rebels. The film has been compared with the action thriller Taken with Famke Janssen.
The thriller brings the 43-year-old Wilson returns to the action genre. The American actor in 2001 for the last time a shooting movie. He played a fighter pilot in the war film Behind Enemy Lines. Then he played mostly in comedies like Zoolander and Midnight in Paris.
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McGregor, Payne and Kruger in Cannes jury
(AP) – Ewan McGregor, Alexander Payne and Diane Kruger are part of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. This made the organization said Wednesday. The jury this year, led by the Italian director Nanni Moretti.
“This selection embodies the American cinema of recent years between small independent films and big Hollywood blockbusters,” said festival director Thierry Fremaux. Until the jury, at the end of the festival’s Golden Palm reaches out, includes the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck.
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Jason Segel was sixteen pounds for film
(AP) – Jason Segel was forced to fall by the boss of film company Universal Pictures. The 32-year-old actor had nearly sixteen pounds a credible husband of actress Emily Blunt to play in The Five-Year Engagement.
“I was told that it had to be conceivable that Emily Blunt would ever choose me as a man. And rightly so,” says Segel of the American talk show Late Show with David Letterman. Jason Segel has also co-authored the screenplay of the film. He played with the 29-year-old actress starring.
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The Challenge of Treatments
The Challenge of Treatments I’m trying to work out the age-old problem of selling a movie from an original unsolicited screenplay. OK so I’ve got this idea, I let it stew until it feels ready to move on and catch some interest. Who’s out there? The lone Producer and the corporate Production company. But what am I offering at this point? I can give them a pitch, a treatment (anything from 1 to 50 pages) – what do they want? In any case it’s a document that won’t bear much resemblance to the final cut. And here my sympathy is with the receivers – how on earth do they make a judgment? Past record of the writer? A flavour of originality? This year’s fashion! Leaving aside the number of treatments that end up in a pile, unsolicited or sent by reputable agents, this route is still pretty forlorn. At best the response is ‘It’s interesting but we need to do some work on it (We? Who?) or ‘These days we really do need to see a screenplay’. Well I’m very happy to do that – no money but no interference, just alone with the simple joy of writing, Now, my subject needs some research and travel – and special music. The music and landscape may be the lasting memory of this film even after its clever plot! And how do you convey the value of the ‘music’ of a film on the written page? I need my director. I call up a respected one, a friend. He enthuses. We put in some work (no fee) and now I run the risk of submitting the piece to a company who likes the work but not the director. Come to that, they may like the work and the director but not the writer – and then after months of toil and tribulation they cool on the subject! So is it worth trying to catch the attention of the bankable actor? Yes but they need to know the director, the script and what the money is! Well you get my drift now. Anyone cracking the challenge of treatments? Do let me know!
Back Catalogue
Back Catalogue
Jeremy, writer of screenplays, plays, film and books, welcomes enquiries about any of the following pieces in his back catalogue.
Theatre Portfolio
Stage
(Plays in progress)
Jeremy Paul, playwright and screenwriter, welcomes enquiries about any of the following plays.
Bogdan’s War
(A Drama)
A cartoonist, his wife and their best friend are caught in the centre of Belgrade during the NATO bombing of 1999 to flush out Slobodan Milosevic.
Like many writers I felt a strong urge to express feelings on the bombing of Baghdad (2003), but to get some objectivity I had to go back a war, and in so doing found similarities and contradictions with Belgrade (1999); Milosevic, ‘justifiable’ and ‘job done’, and Saddam, palpably neither. But the dramatic concern was the people under the bombing, you and me, any city, anywhere from the Second World War to now and beyond. The devastating effects on love and relationships, private stories rarely told. I was lucky, if that’s the word, to chance on the Serbian writer and film-maker Jasmina Tesanovic and her detailed account of living through these terrifying events (‘The Diary of a Political Idiot’ Granta 67), with the help of music by the Serbian group Starogradski Biseri supplied by my friend Vladmir Rapic.
Screen Portfolio
Screen
(Screenplays in progress)
Jeremy Paul, screenwriter and playwright, welcomes enquiries about any of the following screenplays.
Any day in summer you can sit out at Mick’s seafood café on the water’s edge looking over Swanage Bay. You see people of all ages, shapes and sizes, grasping at life, come rain or shine. This is the genesis of:
Sink or Swim
(A Romantic Comedy)
The short ferry ride across Poole Harbour, Dorset, brings a vintage Bentley, a family Vauxhall, a battered Fiat and a Suzuki motorbike for a summer weekend of festivity and fireworks in the seaside town of Swanage. A fifth story arrives via Corfe Castle by open-top bus.
Leonard, once a humble merchant seaman, now the proud owner of the Bentley, has come, minus a leg, to look up his great lost love Bunty – did life treat her well?
Carl (the Vauxhall driver) brings his new love Janice, with Ricky and Jodi (15), their kids by their previous partners, strangers to each other. What are the odds on them bonding?
Then there are Gary and Daya (the Suzuki couple). He is a window cleaner and a keen diver. She is a well educated Indonesian beauty. They are at the start of a hot affair.
Conta and Mary (on the open top bus) are Edinburgh ladies on a break from their boring husbands. Mary’s hat flies off in the direction of Corfe Castle which leads to an unsettling encounter with the randy local artist Pedro.
Holly (in the Fiat) dumped by her Italian husband, becomes a cook at the Language School. Her son Aldo (8), on the loose, winds up at the visiting circus with the old clown Fellini and his Italian wife Bauchi, former ‘Queen of the Trapeze’.
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