Every year, I get a kick out of interviewing the Oscar-nominated screenwriters at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This year’s panel included two rookie film writer-directors (Cord Jefferson of “American Fiction” and Celine Song of “Past Lives”), two first-time feature screenwriters (Samy Burch of “May December” and David Hemingson of “The Holdovers”), two who studied law (Hemingson and Josh Singer of “Maestro”) and two co-writers with live-in partners (Burch and Arthur Harari of “Anatomy of a Fall”). And oddly, three have westerns in the works as their next projects.
Here’s a few highlights of what I gleaned from these brilliant writers.
1. David Hemingson leaned on his relatives for “The Holdovers.”
The television writer first wrote a pilot about an East Coast boarding school that his agent told him he could use as a writing sample. But the script got to Alexander Payne who liked it and cold-called...
Here’s a few highlights of what I gleaned from these brilliant writers.
1. David Hemingson leaned on his relatives for “The Holdovers.”
The television writer first wrote a pilot about an East Coast boarding school that his agent told him he could use as a writing sample. But the script got to Alexander Payne who liked it and cold-called...
- 2/16/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Did the Algonquin round table somehow spiritually relocate itself in the early 1970s to Key West, Florida? The idea that the small, remote island city was a hotbed for one of the last great counterculture arts scenes — particularly for prose writers, but also with some music mixed in — is the focus of a new short film about the Key West scene of 50 years ago, “All That Is Sacred.” The 34-minute movie, which stars the famous novelist Tom McGuane and writer-musician Jimmy Buffett, has its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend.
Variety has an exclusive premiere for a trailer for the film, which does not yet have distribution; check it out below. We also talked with McGuane and director Scott Ballew about how the subject of the film came into focus, harking back to a loose collective of wild but serious writers in Key West that also included men of letters like Jim Harrison,...
Variety has an exclusive premiere for a trailer for the film, which does not yet have distribution; check it out below. We also talked with McGuane and director Scott Ballew about how the subject of the film came into focus, harking back to a loose collective of wild but serious writers in Key West that also included men of letters like Jim Harrison,...
- 8/31/2023
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Madonna offered gratitude to her late brother Anthony Ciccone on Instagram on Monday, three days after his death at 66 years old.
“Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, Expansive Thinking Outside the Box,” the queen of pop shared on Instagram Stories (and captured by Rhino Records below). “You planted many important seeds.”
#Madonna pays tribute to her older brother Anthony on Ig Stories: "You planted many important seeds" #Rip...
“Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, Expansive Thinking Outside the Box,” the queen of pop shared on Instagram Stories (and captured by Rhino Records below). “You planted many important seeds.”
#Madonna pays tribute to her older brother Anthony on Ig Stories: "You planted many important seeds" #Rip...
- 3/1/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madonna has posted a tribute to her brother, Anthony Ciccone, who died aged 66 last week.
“Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, expansive thinking, outside the box,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories, posting a photo of her brother having drinks with a group of people.
“You planted many important seeds.”
Anthony’s death was announced by his and Madonna’s brother-in-law, musician Joe Henry. His cause of death has not been disclosed.
Madonna – full name Madonna Louise Ciccone – grew up with Anthony and their six other siblings, Martin, Paula, Melanie, Christopher, Jennifer and Mario in the outskirts of Detroit.
Anthony was the eldest child of the singer’s parents, Tony and Madonna Ciccone.
He lived on the streets for years due to his struggle with alcoholism. He was arrested at least twice,...
“Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, expansive thinking, outside the box,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories, posting a photo of her brother having drinks with a group of people.
“You planted many important seeds.”
Anthony’s death was announced by his and Madonna’s brother-in-law, musician Joe Henry. His cause of death has not been disclosed.
Madonna – full name Madonna Louise Ciccone – grew up with Anthony and their six other siblings, Martin, Paula, Melanie, Christopher, Jennifer and Mario in the outskirts of Detroit.
Anthony was the eldest child of the singer’s parents, Tony and Madonna Ciccone.
He lived on the streets for years due to his struggle with alcoholism. He was arrested at least twice,...
- 2/28/2023
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - Music
As prolific as Tim Burton is, the filmmaker has a sizeable list of unrealized projects that sound strange yet fascinating even for his off-kilter style. His abandoned works include an adaptation of the Richard Brautigan horror Western novel "The Hawkline Monster," the apocalyptic disaster film about giant dinosaurs aptly called "Dinosaurs Attack!," and, of course, the legendary and infamous Nicolas Cage-led, Kevin Smith-penned "Superman Lives." However, none of these match up to the levels of surreality as Burton's proposed musical adaptation of the 1953 3D mystery-horror classic "House of Wax," which would have starred none other than Michael Jackson.
This wasn't the first time someone tried re-visiting the story about a murderous museum sculptor, nor would it be the last. In fact, the 1953 version was a remake of a 1933 film called "Mystery of the Wax Museum," starring Lionel Atwill, who would later appear in "Son of Frankenstein," as well as Fay Wray,...
This wasn't the first time someone tried re-visiting the story about a murderous museum sculptor, nor would it be the last. In fact, the 1953 version was a remake of a 1933 film called "Mystery of the Wax Museum," starring Lionel Atwill, who would later appear in "Son of Frankenstein," as well as Fay Wray,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
Image Source: Getty / Joseph Okpako
It's a sign of the times! Texas State University's Honors College is gearing up to teach the world's first-ever Harry Styles course. While many of us are undoubtedly appalled to have received degrees so lacking in this very critical knowledge, it's encouraging to know that future generations are in good hands. The class, which is officially entitled "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture," is slated to focus on the singer, as well as "the political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism," according to a flier shared by the class's professor.
The professor for the course, Louie Dean Valencia, broke the news over Twitter. "It's official, official. I'm teaching the world's first ever university course on the work...
It's a sign of the times! Texas State University's Honors College is gearing up to teach the world's first-ever Harry Styles course. While many of us are undoubtedly appalled to have received degrees so lacking in this very critical knowledge, it's encouraging to know that future generations are in good hands. The class, which is officially entitled "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture," is slated to focus on the singer, as well as "the political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism," according to a flier shared by the class's professor.
The professor for the course, Louie Dean Valencia, broke the news over Twitter. "It's official, official. I'm teaching the world's first ever university course on the work...
- 7/19/2022
- by Chandler Plante
- Popsugar.com
Jarvis Cocker has built one of rock’s weirdest, wittiest, most fascinating careers. But he’s still not finished experimenting. In the Nineties, he crashed the British charts as the frontman of Pulp, turning into an unlikely sex god purring hits like “Common People” and “Disco 2000” on classics like Different Class. His eagerly awaited new Beyond the Pale, out July 17th on Rough Trade, isn’t just his first album in a decade — it’s one of his most brilliant ever. With his new band Jarv Is…, he explores his favorite obsessions — lust,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Since The Favourite’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival less than two years ago, writer Tony McNamara has quickly established a niche for crass, iconoclastic period pieces. The aforementioned Yorgos Lanthimos film, which McNamara co-wrote with Deborah Davis, went on to earn an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Since then, he’s kept that train rolling. Hulu’s The Great has been earning praise since it hit the service last week, and now THR reports that the writer is reteaming with Lanthimos for an adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s 1974 novel, The Hawkline Monster.
Brautigan published as many poetry collections as he did novels before his suicide in 1984. The Hawkline Monster, though, remains one of his lighter works, a parody of both Western and Gothic tales. It tells the story of a teenage girl who hires a pair of gunslingers to slay a monster rumored to live in the nearby caves.
Brautigan published as many poetry collections as he did novels before his suicide in 1984. The Hawkline Monster, though, remains one of his lighter works, a parody of both Western and Gothic tales. It tells the story of a teenage girl who hires a pair of gunslingers to slay a monster rumored to live in the nearby caves.
- 5/20/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
Yorgos Lanthimos is reuniting with his “The Favourite” screenwriter Tony McNamara for an adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s 1974 Gothic Western novel “Hawkline Monster” (via The Wrap). The project is backed by New Regency and Element Pictures. McNamara’s script will follow two gunslingers who are hired by a 15-year-old girl to kill a monster that lives underneath the basement in the home of the title character Miss Hawkline. Lanthimos is set to direct the project, which has floated around Hollywood for years and has courted the likes of Hal Ashby and Tim Burton. Ashby’s attempt to adapt the book was to star Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman.
The news of “Hawkline Monster” comes at a major moment for Tony McNamara, the writer who is currently earning praise for creating the new Hulu period comedy “The Great,” starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. McNamara co-wrote “The Favourite” with Deborah Davis.
The news of “Hawkline Monster” comes at a major moment for Tony McNamara, the writer who is currently earning praise for creating the new Hulu period comedy “The Great,” starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult. McNamara co-wrote “The Favourite” with Deborah Davis.
- 5/19/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Oscar nominee Tony McNamara is in talks to write “The Hawkline Monster,” a film adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s novel which is being developed by New Regency, Element Pictures and Roy Lee.
Yorgos Lanthimos will direct the feature. Roy Lee of Vertigo, Andrew Trapani (“Winchester”), Steven Schneider as well as Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures (“The Favourite”) are producing the project. Paul Swensen and Ianthe Brautigan will Executive Produce and Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency.
Described as a Gothic Western, “The Hawkline Monster” tells the story of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in the caves under the basement of one Miss Hawkline’s house. The project has been in the works for decades since first being published in 1974. Hal Ashby tried to adapt the project for Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman to star,...
Yorgos Lanthimos will direct the feature. Roy Lee of Vertigo, Andrew Trapani (“Winchester”), Steven Schneider as well as Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures (“The Favourite”) are producing the project. Paul Swensen and Ianthe Brautigan will Executive Produce and Natalie Lehmann will oversee for New Regency.
Described as a Gothic Western, “The Hawkline Monster” tells the story of two unlikely hero gunslingers hired by a 15-year-old girl named Magic Child to kill the monster that lives in the caves under the basement of one Miss Hawkline’s house. The project has been in the works for decades since first being published in 1974. Hal Ashby tried to adapt the project for Jack Nicholson and Dustin Hoffman to star,...
- 5/19/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Harry Styles stopped by NPR for an intimate Tiny Desk Concert, performing four tracks from his new album, Fine Line.
Wearing a powder blue knit sweater with a baby chicken on it, Styles launched into “Cherry.” He then discussed the background of “Watermelon Sugar”: On his day off from his 2017 tour in Nashville, he saw Richard Brautigan’s novel on a table and decided to name the song after that.
“It’s probably the longest it’s ever taken me to finish a song,” he told the audience. “We...
Wearing a powder blue knit sweater with a baby chicken on it, Styles launched into “Cherry.” He then discussed the background of “Watermelon Sugar”: On his day off from his 2017 tour in Nashville, he saw Richard Brautigan’s novel on a table and decided to name the song after that.
“It’s probably the longest it’s ever taken me to finish a song,” he told the audience. “We...
- 3/16/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos has a new project lined up, and it sounds amazing. Lanthimos is in talks to direct The Hawkline Monster, a gothic western based on the novel by Richard Brautigan. The story concerns two gunslingers who are hired by a young girl to kill a monster, and both Hal Ashby and Tim Burton both […]
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- 12/18/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Sadly, the life of famed editor-turned-director Hal Ashby was cut short in 1988, well before his time. Unfortunately, that meant that the film industry never fully got to see what the filmmaker would have been capable of in the years that would follow. However, his legacy will apparently live on, as one of his passion projects that never saw the light of day might finally make its way to the big screen, with the film “The Hawkline Monster.”
According to THR, the film rights to the novel “The Hawkline Monster,” from author Richard Brautigan, have been purchased by New Regency, the production studio that is coming off the almost-billion-dollar success of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The novel is described as a “Gothic Western” that follows the story of a young woman that hires two gunmen to kill a monster that lives in ice caves below the basement of a house owned by Miss Hawkline.
According to THR, the film rights to the novel “The Hawkline Monster,” from author Richard Brautigan, have been purchased by New Regency, the production studio that is coming off the almost-billion-dollar success of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” The novel is described as a “Gothic Western” that follows the story of a young woman that hires two gunmen to kill a monster that lives in ice caves below the basement of a house owned by Miss Hawkline.
- 6/7/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
New Regency has acquired the film rights to the long-gestating adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s Gothic Western novel The Hawkline Monster which the legendary Hal Ashby had been trying to get to the big screen, Deadline has confirmed. Roy Lee (It), Andrew Trapani (Winchester), and Steven Schneider (Pet Sematary) will serve as producers.
The Harold & Maude filmmaker first acquired The Hawkline Monster in 1975, a year after the book was published and attempted to adapt it into a film. Various stars were attached including Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman as well as Jeff and Beau Bridges. Following the death of Brautigan in 1984 and then Ashby in 1988, Tim Burton fell in line to develop the project for Nicholson and Clint Eastwood. The adaptive rights then fell into limbo between the Ashby and Brautigan estates for decades before New Regency picked up the rights.
The Hawkline Monster tells the story of two unlikely hero...
The Harold & Maude filmmaker first acquired The Hawkline Monster in 1975, a year after the book was published and attempted to adapt it into a film. Various stars were attached including Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman as well as Jeff and Beau Bridges. Following the death of Brautigan in 1984 and then Ashby in 1988, Tim Burton fell in line to develop the project for Nicholson and Clint Eastwood. The adaptive rights then fell into limbo between the Ashby and Brautigan estates for decades before New Regency picked up the rights.
The Hawkline Monster tells the story of two unlikely hero...
- 6/4/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
After decades of being dormant, the film adaptation of Gothic Western The Hawkline Monster has emerged from the ice cave.
In a competitive situation, New Regency, the company behind Bohemian Rhapsody, has picked up the film rights to the book by Richard Brautigan in a deal that involved the estates of both Brautigan and Hal Ashby, the filmmaking icon that spent years trying to mount a movie version.
Roy Lee, one of the producers behind the horror hit It, Andrew Trapani (Winchester) and Steven Schneider, who last worked on Glass and Pet Sematary, will produce the adaptation.
The book, first published in 1974, tells of ...
In a competitive situation, New Regency, the company behind Bohemian Rhapsody, has picked up the film rights to the book by Richard Brautigan in a deal that involved the estates of both Brautigan and Hal Ashby, the filmmaking icon that spent years trying to mount a movie version.
Roy Lee, one of the producers behind the horror hit It, Andrew Trapani (Winchester) and Steven Schneider, who last worked on Glass and Pet Sematary, will produce the adaptation.
The book, first published in 1974, tells of ...
After decades of being dormant, the film adaptation of Gothic Western The Hawkline Monster has emerged from the ice cave.
In a competitive situation, New Regency, the company behind Bohemian Rhapsody, has picked up the film rights to the book by Richard Brautigan in a deal that involved the estates of both Brautigan and Hal Ashby, the filmmaking icon that spent years trying to mount a movie version.
Roy Lee, one of the producers behind the horror hit It, Andrew Trapani (Winchester) and Steven Schneider, who last worked on Glass and Pet Sematary, will produce the adaptation.
The book, first published in 1974, tells of ...
In a competitive situation, New Regency, the company behind Bohemian Rhapsody, has picked up the film rights to the book by Richard Brautigan in a deal that involved the estates of both Brautigan and Hal Ashby, the filmmaking icon that spent years trying to mount a movie version.
Roy Lee, one of the producers behind the horror hit It, Andrew Trapani (Winchester) and Steven Schneider, who last worked on Glass and Pet Sematary, will produce the adaptation.
The book, first published in 1974, tells of ...
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