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So Sad: ‘The Hate U Give’ Screenwriter Audrey Wells Dies Just One Day Before Film Release

(Photo by Pramod Thakur/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Audrey Wells Passes Away A Day Before “The Hate U Give” Releases In Theaters 58-Year-Old screenwriter Audrey Wells had passed away according to Page Six , just one day short of seeing through her final project. Audrey Wells, who wrote and directed the 2003 romantic comedy “Under the Tuscan Sun” as well as the screenplay for the new film “The Hate U Give,” has died after a five-year battle with cancer. A representative from United Talent Agency says Wells died Thursday. Wells worked on notible projects throughout her career, like screenplays for films like “The Truth About Cats and Dogs,” and “Shall We Dance,” with Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere. Wells also wrote the script for the critically-acclaimed new film “The Hate U Give,” an adaptation of Angie Thomas’ young adult novel about a police shooting of a young black man. The film starring Amandla Stenberg is now playing in limited release before it expands nationwide Oct. 19. UTA Co-President David Kramer said in a statement that Wells was “truly special.” “The strong, independent female characters she shaped resonate today more than ever and will be a part of her legacy always,” Kramer said. “We will miss her amazing, spirit, creativity and the love she gave us.” So sad, may she rest in peace.

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So Sad: ‘The Hate U Give’ Screenwriter Audrey Wells Dies Just One Day Before Film Release

(Photo by Pramod Thakur/Hindustan Times via Getty Images) Audrey Wells Passes Away A Day Before “The Hate U Give” Releases In Theaters 58-Year-Old screenwriter Audrey Wells had passed away according to Page Six , just one day short of seeing through her final project. Audrey Wells, who wrote and directed the 2003 romantic comedy “Under the Tuscan Sun” as well as the screenplay for the new film “The Hate U Give,” has died after a five-year battle with cancer. A representative from United Talent Agency says Wells died Thursday. Wells worked on notible projects throughout her career, like screenplays for films like “The Truth About Cats and Dogs,” and “Shall We Dance,” with Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere. Wells also wrote the script for the critically-acclaimed new film “The Hate U Give,” an adaptation of Angie Thomas’ young adult novel about a police shooting of a young black man. The film starring Amandla Stenberg is now playing in limited release before it expands nationwide Oct. 19. UTA Co-President David Kramer said in a statement that Wells was “truly special.” “The strong, independent female characters she shaped resonate today more than ever and will be a part of her legacy always,” Kramer said. “We will miss her amazing, spirit, creativity and the love she gave us.” So sad, may she rest in peace.

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Dog Tries, Fails to Catch Tennis Ball: Fun with Slow Motion!

Give the following canine an A for effort. And then signing him up for classes with Crazy Awesome Jumping Cat . The owner of this very cute dog has captured his pet on video, trying very hard to catch a tennis ball tossed his way. He gets up in the air in okay fashion, he contorts his body pretty well… but he comes up empty in the end, crashing painfully to the ground and having the embarrassing fall depicted in slow motion. Dog Fails to Catch Tennis Ball: Slow Motion Fun! Is it bad that we can’t stop laughing at this? It could be worse, man. You could mistake an iPad screen for water . 52 TOTALLY Adorable Dog Videos 1. Dog Goes Gangnam Style This dog is dancing up a storm! Look at it go all Gangnam Style, folks!

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Sharknado 2 Trailer: It’s the Second One!

As previously reported, Sharknado 2 isn’t just coming. But it’s coming – and it will be bigger, bolder and even more ridiculous ! Syfy has released a new trailer for this wildly anticipated sequel, which will bring back Ian Ziering and Tara Reid, while including other Z-Listers such as Mark McGrath and Andy Dick. It will air on July 30 and, we’d have to imagine, threaten to once again bring down Twitter , especially with amazing lines such as “You just jumped the shark!” Sharknado 2 Preview You can also rest easy, folks: Syfy has already ordered  Sharknado 3 . Which characters will live to star in it? We only need to wait a few weeks to find out!!!! Celebrities React to Sharknado Judah Friedlander – Thanks for watching #Sharknado with me. I’m going to work on my screenplay for Vaginaconda. Permalink: Vaginaconda! Added: March 28, 2014 1. Vaginaconda! Judah Friedlander – Thanks for watching #Sharknado with me. I’m going to work on my screenplay for Vaginaconda.

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Sharknado 3: Already Ordered by Syfy!

Syfy may be in danger of jumping the Sharknado. Months before the  Sharknado sequel airs, this cable network has ordered a third edition of the ridiculous franchise, one we can only imagine will be titled Sharknado 3: The Third One. Celebrities React to Sharknado Open Slideshow 1. Vaginaconda! Judah Friedlander – Thanks for watching #Sharknado with me. I’m going to work on my screenplay for Vaginaconda. View As List Judah Friedlander – Thanks for watching #Sharknado with me. I’m going to work on my screenplay for Vaginaconda. Permalink: Vaginaconda! Added: March 28, 2014 1. Vaginaconda! Judah Friedlander – Thanks for watching #Sharknado with me. I’m going to work on my screenplay for Vaginaconda. Horatio Sanz – I wish I could join in on the shenanigans, But I had a cousin that was killed by a #Sharknado back in ’93. #RamonRIP Permalink: Horatio Sanz – I wish I could join in on the shenanigans, But I had a cousin that was killed… Added: March 28, 2014 2. Horatio Sanz – I wish I could join in on the shenanigans, But I had a cousin that was killed… Horatio Sanz – I wish I could join in on the shenanigans, But I had a cousin that was killed by a #Sharknado back in ’93. #RamonRIP Rob Delany – I usually hate Wes Anderson, but Sharknado’s actually pretty good. Permalink: Rob Delany – I usually hate Wes Anderson, but Sharknado’s actually pretty good. Added: March 28, 2014 3. Rob Delany – I usually hate Wes Anderson, but Sharknado’s actually pretty good. Rob Delany – I usually hate Wes Anderson, but Sharknado’s actually pretty good. two heads, one magnificent shark tail. Emmys all around. #SharknadoTwo. Olivia Wilde – @ElizabethBanks Banks, this is our chance to play Siamese twins Permalink: #SharknadoTwo idea Added: March 28, 2014 4. #SharknadoTwo idea two heads, one magnificent shark tail. Emmys all around. #SharknadoTwo. Patton Oswalt – Just got a call from the 2nd A.D. on the movie I’m filming. Call time canceled tomorrow. ALL movies canceled. It’s done. #SharkNado. Permalink: Patton Oswalt – Just got a call from the 2nd A.D. on the movie I’m filming. Call time… Added: March 28, 2014 5. Patton Oswalt – Just got a call from the 2nd A.D. on the movie I’m filming. Call time… Patton Oswalt – Just got a call from the 2nd A.D. on the movie I’m filming. Call time canceled tomorrow. ALL movies canceled. It’s done…. B.J. Novak – I’m afraid that now when we have a real sharknado everyone’s going to treat it like a joke. Permalink: B.J. Novak – I’m afraid that now when we have a real sharknado everyone’s going to treat it… Added: March 28, 2014 6. B.J. Novak – I’m afraid that now when we have a real sharknado everyone’s going to treat it… B.J. Novak – I’m afraid that now when we have a real sharknado everyone’s going to treat it like a joke. Damon Lindelhof -This movie is such a ripoff of THE BICYCLE THIEF. #LiveTweetingSharknado #Highbrow.” This movie is such a ripoff of THE BICYCLE THIEF. #LiveTweetingSharknado #Highbrow. Permalink: What a ripoff! Added: March 28, 2014 7. What a ripoff! Damon Lindelhof -This movie is such a ripoff of THE BICYCLE THIEF. #LiveTweetingSharknado #Highbrow.” This movie is such a ripoff of THE… The first film was based on Los Angeles, shot for only $250,000 and nearly broke Twitter last summer. The second will air on July 30 and be set in New York, with original Ian Ziering and Tara Reid on board for a return. No word yet on the location of the third or who may star or when it will be released. But… hey… Sharknado 3! Are you excited? Will you watch it?   Yes, can’t wait! No, enough is enough! View Poll »

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New Video: Childish Gambino Ft. Chance The Rapper “The Worst Guys”

All she needed was some… Childish Gambino Featuring Chance The Rapper “The Worst Guys” Via Radio News reports: Community actor Donald Glover turned rapper Childish Gambino and 2013 breakout hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper have teamed up for a new music video, “The Worst Guys.” The track is taken from Childish Gambino’s ambitious new album, because the internet. The video features the pair cavorting with friends at an all-day beach party, doing a bit of surfing and making the most of a medical marijuana prescription, as the party-goers are seen sharing joints during the clip. Hardcore Gambino fans that have accessed the script Glover penned to accompany because the internet will notice that the new video falls right in line with the scene in the screenplay that’s meant to go along with the song. The new video was originally released back in December, but as Stereogum pointed out at the time, was protected and only accessible via a password found in the aforementioned screenplay. The site also pointed out that despite Chance the Rapper’s breakout status, he relegated to singing the hook and adding a guitar solo to the song instead of the traditional rap verse usually found on such collaborations. Hate it or love it?!?

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New Video: Childish Gambino Ft. Chance The Rapper “The Worst Guys”

All she needed was some… Childish Gambino Featuring Chance The Rapper “The Worst Guys” Via Radio News reports: Community actor Donald Glover turned rapper Childish Gambino and 2013 breakout hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper have teamed up for a new music video, “The Worst Guys.” The track is taken from Childish Gambino’s ambitious new album, because the internet. The video features the pair cavorting with friends at an all-day beach party, doing a bit of surfing and making the most of a medical marijuana prescription, as the party-goers are seen sharing joints during the clip. Hardcore Gambino fans that have accessed the script Glover penned to accompany because the internet will notice that the new video falls right in line with the scene in the screenplay that’s meant to go along with the song. The new video was originally released back in December, but as Stereogum pointed out at the time, was protected and only accessible via a password found in the aforementioned screenplay. The site also pointed out that despite Chance the Rapper’s breakout status, he relegated to singing the hook and adding a guitar solo to the song instead of the traditional rap verse usually found on such collaborations. Hate it or love it?!?

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Angry Birds Movie in the Works

Sony has bought the movie rights to  Angry Birds ! Yes. Movie rights. There will be an  Angry Birds movie . Now that movie studios are mining apps for ideas, we can all look forward to such thrilling summer Blockbusters as: Instagram: The Duckface of Death, Google Maps: Curse of the Undocumented Construction,  and Grindr : The Casual Encounter. Today, Sony hired write Jon Vitti to pen the screenplay. Vitti has written on such shows as  Saturday Night Live ,  The Critic ,  The Larry Sanders Show ,  King of the Hill , and  The Simpsons. What do you think? Can the  Angry Birds movie be any good at all? Or are apps a horrible place to draw inspiration for a movie? Angry Birds  has a premiere date set for July 1. 2016.

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‘Entourage’ Movie A Go!

HBO series creator Doug Ellin has written the screenplay and deals are in the works with main cast members. By Gil Kaufman Kevin Dillon, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly and Jerry Ferrara in “Entourage” Photo: HBO

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Academy Award Nominees Announced – ‘Lincoln’ Leads 2013 Oscar Noms

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards have come in with Lincoln and Beasts of the Southern Wild making strong showings in the initial list of noms Thursday morning. (More to come). Best Motion Picture of the Year “Amour” Nominees to be determined “Argo” Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers “Django Unchained” Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers “Les Misérables” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers “Life of Pi” Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers “Silver Linings Playbook” Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers “Zero Dark Thirty” Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers Achievement in Directing “Amour” Michael Haneke “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Benh Zeitlin “Life of Pi” Ang Lee “Lincoln” Steven Spielberg “Silver Linings Playbook” David O. Russell Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook” Daniel Day-Lewis in “Lincoln” Hugh Jackman in “Les Misérables” Joaquin Phoenix in “The Master” Denzel Washington in “Flight” Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin in “Argo” Robert De Niro in “Silver Linings Playbook” Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Master” Tommy Lee Jones in “Lincoln” Christoph Waltz in “Django Unchained” Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty” Jennifer Lawrence in “Silver Linings Playbook” Emmanuelle Riva in “Amour” Quvenzhané Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Naomi Watts in “The Impossible” Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Amy Adams in “The Master” Sally Field in “Lincoln” Anne Hathaway in “Les Misérables” Helen Hunt in “The Sessions” Jacki Weaver in “Silver Linings Playbook” Animated Feature Film “Brave” Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman “Frankenweenie” Tim Burton “ParaNorman” Sam Fell and Chris Butler “The Pirates! Band of Misfits” Peter Lord “Wreck-It Ralph” Rich Moore Achievement in Production Design ” Anna Karenina ,” Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer ” The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ,” Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright ” Les Misérables ,” Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson ” Life of Pi ,” Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock ” Lincoln ,” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson Achievement in Cinematography “Anna Karenina,” Seamus McGarvey “Django Unchained,” Robert Richardson “Life of Pi,” Claudio Miranda “Lincoln,” Janusz Kaminski “Skyfall,” Roger Deakins Achievement in Costume Design “Anna Karenina,” Jacqueline Durran “Les Misérables,” Paco Delgado “Lincoln,” Joanna Johnston “Mirror Mirror,” Eiko Ishioka “Snow White and the Huntsman,” Colleen Atwood Best Documentary Feature “5 Broken Cameras,” Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi “The Gatekeepers,” Nominees to be determined “How to Survive a Plague,” Nominees to be determined “The Invisible War,” Nominees to be determined “Searching for Sugar Man,” Nominees to be determined Documentary Short Subject “Inocente,” Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine “Kings Point,” Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider “Mondays at Racine,” Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan “Open Heart,” Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern “Redemption,” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill Achievement in Film Editing “Argo” William Goldenberg “Life of Pi” Tim Squyres “Lincoln” Michael Kahn “Silver Linings Playbook” Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg Best Foreign-Language Film of the Year “Amour” Austria “Kon-Tiki” Norway “No” Chile “A Royal Affair” Denmark “War Witch” Canada Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling “Hitchcock,” Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane “Les Misérables,” Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) “Anna Karenina,” Dario Marianelli “Argo,” Alexandre Desplat “Life of Pi,” Mychael Danna “Lincoln,” John Williams “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman Music Original Song “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice,” Music and Lyric by J. Ralph “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted,” Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane “Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi,” Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri “Skyfall” from “Skyfall,” Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth “Suddenly” from “Les Misérables,” Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil Best Animated Short Film “Adam and Dog” Minkyu Lee “Fresh Guacamole” PES “Head over Heels” Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly “Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”” David Silverman “Paperman” John Kahrs Best Live Action Short Film “Asad” Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura “Buzkashi Boys” Sam French and Ariel Nasr “Curfew” Shawn Christensen “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)” Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele “Henry” Yan England Sound Editing “Argo” Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn “Django Unchained” Wylie Stateman “Life of Pi” Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton “Skyfall” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers “Zero Dark Thirty” Paul N.J. Ottosson Sound Mixing “Argo,” John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia “Les Misérables,” Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes “Life of Pi,” Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin “Lincoln,” Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins “Skyfall,” Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson Visual Effects “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White “Life of Pi” Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott “Marvel’s The Avengers” Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick “Prometheus” Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill “Snow White and the Huntsman” Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson Adapted Screenplay “Argo” Screenplay by Chris Terrio “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin “Life of Pi” Screenplay by David Magee “Lincoln” Screenplay by Tony Kushner “Silver Linings Playbook” Screenplay by David O. Russell Original Screenplay “Amour” Written by Michael Haneke “Django Unchained” Written by Quentin Tarantino “Flight” Written by John Gatins “Moonrise Kingdom” Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola “Zero Dark Thirty” Written by Mark Boal http://www.youtube.com/user/Oscars?v=cM3-uj3rOns

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