The Italian Job isn't exactly blessed with the most proven of screenwriting teams in Donna and Wayne Powers (Deep Blue Sea, Valentine), but in all fairness, points aren't scored in a heist flick from sparkling conversation. (qwipster.net)
Actors Zoey Deutch, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Rodrigo Santoro and Vince Vaughn will perform a live reading of selected scenes from this year's five winning scripts at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. (zoey-deutch.com)
Winner of the Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie. (ioncinema.com)