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Author E.L. James has unprecedented control of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. That caused quite a bit of friction on the set. (January 22, 2015)
Spanish screenwriter and director Almodovar will receive the WGA's Jean Renoir Screenwriting Achievement Award on Valentine's Day at the WGA Awards. (January 21, 2015)
Wes Anderson, Dan Gilroy, Alejandro Gonzalez inarritu and Jason Hall get Oscar nominations. Gillian Flynn snubbed for Gone Girl adaptation. (January 15, 2015)
Birdman won the award for Best Screenplay at the 2015 Golden Globes. The film's star Michael Keaton also won a Globe. (January 13, 2015)
The WGA nominations are in and Guardians of the Galaxy's Nicole Perlman and James Gunn are in the mix. Game of Thrones, True Detective and House of Cards also got nominations. (January 8, 2015)
Dan Sterling wrote the screenplay for The Interview, which led to the massive hack of Sony. Sterling talks about being called the man who brought down Sony. (December 17, 2014)
Penguin and the Cartoon Network have teamed up to launch a new imprint called Cartoon Network Books. The imprint will launch next summer. (September 22, 2014)
Sherlock creator Steven Moffat was clearly stunned to win a writing Emmy for Sherlock: His Last Vow. (August 26, 2014)
Ann Druyan and Steven Soter picked up an Emmy for writing the reboot of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Stephen Colbert's writing team also won an Emmy. (August 17, 2014)
Author Lois Lowry and director Phillip Noyce discuss collaborating on the film version of her Newberry award-winning YA novel, The Giver. (August 15, 2014)
Frozen screenwriter and co-director Jennifer Lee to adapt Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time into a feature film for Disney. (August 6, 2014)
Screenwriter Ehern Kruger discusses writing Transformers: Age of Extinction and hints that Unicron could be coming to the Transformers franchise. (July 5, 2014)
Neil Gaimain's award winning novel American Gods will be a television series on Starz. Bryan Fuller will write the pilot. (July 2, 2014)
HBO's The Leftovers premieres tonight. Author Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof explain the changes they made to adapt the book to a television series. (June 29, 2014)
Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed Looper, has been chosed by Disney to write and direct the next two Star Wars movies. (June 20, 2014)
John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars, is being called the teen whisperer which he finds to be creepy. The movie has already raked in $70 million. (June 10, 2014)
Robert Schenkken wins the Tony Award for Best Play for his LBJ drama, All the Way. Bryan Cranston picked up Best Actor for starring as President Johnson. (June 9, 2014)
Maleficent screenwriter Linda Woolverton discusses the challenges of writing the film and the scene that always makes her cry. (June 5, 2014)
Sam Greenlee, author of The Spook That Sat by the Door, has died at the age of 83. (May 26, 2014)
House of Card star Kevin Spacey discusses his other passion: Shakespeare. He has a new documentary about the world tour of Richard III in which he plays the power hungry king. (May 2, 2014)
