&quot;300&quot; director inks for Bradbury tattoo tales
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&quot;300&quot; director Zack  Snyder is sharpening his pencil for &quot;The Illustrated Man,&quot; a  project based on the Ray Bradbury collection of short stories.
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Hollywood writers have approved a three-year, &#36;58 million contract with studios, producers and TV networks, union officials said.
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One of the world's favorite cult writers, Philip K. Dick, is being canonized.
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Playbill - The cast and crew of the Shaw Festival&#39;s new production of Jerry Herman&#39;s Mack and Mabel got a surprise visit by the Tony Award-winning songwriter June 21.
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Evan Rachel Wood says she enjoyed filming "Across the Universe" so much, she had a tattoo inked in tribute to the Beatles-themed musical romance.
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In Hollywoodâs upper reaches this week, few are bothering to count past two. As in Adam Sandler has already booked his two âpre-strikeâ pictures, so letâs try Vince Vaughn.
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Mr. Leonard, who is now 82, has seen his short story â3:10 to Yumaâ turned into a film for the second time.
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Hollywood may not have a Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Shrek or Capt. Jack Sparrow on its upcoming lineup. Yet the fall and holiday schedule does offer filmgoers a chance to catch up with some familiar characters, stories and movie-making teams.
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Alan Parker is in  negotiations to write and direct the film adaptation of Jamila  Gavin&#39;s award-winning young adult novel &quot;Coram Boy.&quot;
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Warner Bros. Pictures has signed the lead for its next &quot;big&quot; movie debuting in 2010, a principal that is no stranger to working with the stars.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fans of menacing movie   varmints bow down before visual effects wizard Phil Tippett.   When the Oscar-winning mind behind "The Empire Strikes Back's"   sinister Imperial Walkers, "Jurassic Park's" blood-thirsty   dinosaurs and "Starship Troopers"' arachnids was hired this   summer by producer Kathleen Kennedy to supervise creatures on   Paramount Pictures' upcoming "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a   collective 'Hail Mary' could be heard among critter   aficionados.
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LAS VEGAS  - Filmmaker Sam Raimi aims to conjure up some syndication magic.
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Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, the screenwriters behind the holiday extravaganza "Night at the Museum," believe in writing, writing and rewriting.
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NEW YORK  - Three striking writers have found work with a new-media studio run by a former MTV Networks executive.
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NEW YORK - Old school: The body is a temple. The Next Big Thing, according to 31-year-old Joe Tamargo: The body is a billboard. Tamargo, who runs a Web site LivingAdSpace.com, has started a new enterprise, selling advertisers the opportunity to permanently tattoo their messages on his body.
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Director Tim Story,  whose &quot;Fantastic Four&quot; sequel opens in theaters Friday, has  signed a deal to shoot another comic book-based movie, the DC  Comics adventure &quot;The Losers.&quot;
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Novelist Nadine Gordimer decided that if rock stars could stage "huge gigs" for worthy causes, writers could do the same and on Tuesday she launched a book of stories by 21 of the world's most distinguished authors in support of AIDS victims.