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Showing posts with label Screenwriter. Show all posts
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Monday, May 8, 2017
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
"Star Wars" Screenwriter Sues Tinder Date Over Disastrous Breakup
A big-time screenwriter is suing a woman he met on Tinder, claiming she was using an episode of “Entourage” as a template to ruin his life. Derek Connolly, whose credits include the upcoming “Star Wars: Episode IX,” as well as “Jurassic World” and…
"Star Wars" Screenwriter Sues Tinder Date Over Disastrous Breakup
A big-time screenwriter is suing a woman he met on Tinder, claiming she was using an episode of “Entourage” as a template to ruin his life. Derek Connolly, whose credits include the upcoming “Star Wars: Episode IX,” as well as “Jurassic World” and…
Monday, February 8, 2016
Daniel Gerson, Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 49
Very sad news today out of Hollywood:
Daniel Gerson, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who co-wrote Monsters, Inc., passed away Saturday at home in Los Angeles.
He was 49 years old.
Best known for collaborating with Robert L. Baird on Disney-Pixar films, Gerson was also responsible for Monsters University and Big Hero 6, winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the latter.
But Monsters, Inc. was his biggest commercial success, earning $ 562 million around the world, along with four Academy Award nominations.
Gerson’s family announced this sad news in a New York Times obituary.
Other well-known films on the screenwriter’s resume include Chicken Little (2005), Cars (2006), Up (2009) and Inside Out (2015).
Gerson grew up on the Upper West Side in New York City and attended Cornell University and New York University film school after that.
He later started his career as a writer on such TV shows as the NBC sitcom Something So Right and Fox Family’s The New Addams Family.
We send our condolences to his friends, family members and loved ones.
He is survived by his wife, two children and parents and was working on Cars 3 when he passed away.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Melissa Mathison Dies; E.T. Screenwriter, Ex-Wife of Harrison Ford Was 65
Melissa Mathison – the screenwriter best known for her work on such classic family films such as The Black Stallion, E.T., and The Indian in the Cupboard – has passed away at the age of 65.
According her family, Mathison had been battling neuroendocrine cancer.
E.T. director Steven Spielberg expressed his condolences in a statement reading, “Melissa had a heart that shined with generosity and love and burned as bright as the heart she gave E.T.”
As a screenwriter and consultant, Mathison had more than a dozen credits to her name, including The Escape Artist, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Son of the Morning Star, and the acclaimed Martin Scorsese-Brad Pitt collaboration, Kundun.
From 1983 to 2004, Mathison was married to actor Harrison Ford. The couple had two children together, Malcolm Carswell Ford, and Georgia Ford.
At the time of her death, Mathison was working with Spielberg once again, this time on an adaptation of the beloved Roald Dahl novel The BFG.
In addition to her work in Hollywood, Mathison was a member of the International Campaign for Tibet and had spent decades tirelessly campaigning to help the beleaguered region secure its independence from China.
In addition to her children, Mathison is survived by four siblings.
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