Bo Goldman, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter, who co-wrote ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1975) and ‘Melvin and Howard’ (1980), died in Helendale, California. He was 90.
Director Todd Field, his son-in-law, confirmed the death, but did not give a cause, reports ‘Deadline’.
Goldman’s career took off when director Milos Forman read his first screenplay and invited him to adapt Ken Kesey’s ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ novel for film.
The resulting script shared screenwriting credit with Lawrence Hauben and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material. The film was also named Best Picture, and earned Oscars for Forman, lead actor Jack Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched.
As per ‘Deadline’, in 1980, ‘Melvin and Howard’ won Goldman his second Oscar, this time for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Goldman later worked with director Martin Brest on two other acclaimed films, ‘Scent of a Woman’ (1992) and ‘Meet Joe Black...
Director Todd Field, his son-in-law, confirmed the death, but did not give a cause, reports ‘Deadline’.
Goldman’s career took off when director Milos Forman read his first screenplay and invited him to adapt Ken Kesey’s ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ novel for film.
The resulting script shared screenwriting credit with Lawrence Hauben and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material. The film was also named Best Picture, and earned Oscars for Forman, lead actor Jack Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched.
As per ‘Deadline’, in 1980, ‘Melvin and Howard’ won Goldman his second Oscar, this time for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Goldman later worked with director Martin Brest on two other acclaimed films, ‘Scent of a Woman’ (1992) and ‘Meet Joe Black...
- 7/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Bo Goldman, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980), died Tuesday in Helendale, CA. He was 90.
Director Todd Field, his son-in-law, confirmed the death, but did not give a cause.
Goldman’s career took off when director Milos Forman read his first screenplay and invited him to adapt Ken Kesey’s “Cuckoo’s Nest” novel for film.
The resulting script shared screenwriting credit with Lawrence Hauben and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material. The film was also named Best Picture, and earned Oscars for Forman, lead actor Jack Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched.
In 1980, Melvin and Howard won Goldman his second Oscar, this time for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
Goldman later worked with director Martin Brest on two other acclaimed films, Scent of a Woman (1992) and Meet Joe Black (1998).
Born in New York City,...
Director Todd Field, his son-in-law, confirmed the death, but did not give a cause.
Goldman’s career took off when director Milos Forman read his first screenplay and invited him to adapt Ken Kesey’s “Cuckoo’s Nest” novel for film.
The resulting script shared screenwriting credit with Lawrence Hauben and won the Oscar for Best Screenplay Adapted from Other Material. The film was also named Best Picture, and earned Oscars for Forman, lead actor Jack Nicholson, and Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched.
In 1980, Melvin and Howard won Goldman his second Oscar, this time for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
Goldman later worked with director Martin Brest on two other acclaimed films, Scent of a Woman (1992) and Meet Joe Black (1998).
Born in New York City,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
We have a look at four pages from Dark Horse Comics' Dead Vengeance #4, stay tuned after the jump. Also in this morning's round-up: new details / trailer for Rooster Teeth's Lazer Team and Dance of the Blue Tattoo casting news.
Dead Vengeance #4: From Dark Horse Comics: "When John Doe uncovers the conspiracy that led to his untimely demise, he comes face to face with his betrayers as he squares off against the villainous Purple Gang!
* The thrilling conclusion!
* A noir horror story by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons)!
Writer:
Bill Morrison
Penciller:
Tone Rodriguez
Inker:
Keith Champagne
Colorist:
Carlos Badilla
Cover Artist:
Bill Morrison
Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Horror
Publication Date:
January 06, 2016
Format:
Fc, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$3.99."
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Lazer Team: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Monday, December 14, 2015 - Sci-fi comedy Lazer Team, the first feature film from pioneering creative studio Rooster Teeth, is coming to YouTube Red in the U.
Dead Vengeance #4: From Dark Horse Comics: "When John Doe uncovers the conspiracy that led to his untimely demise, he comes face to face with his betrayers as he squares off against the villainous Purple Gang!
* The thrilling conclusion!
* A noir horror story by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons)!
Writer:
Bill Morrison
Penciller:
Tone Rodriguez
Inker:
Keith Champagne
Colorist:
Carlos Badilla
Cover Artist:
Bill Morrison
Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Horror
Publication Date:
January 06, 2016
Format:
Fc, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$3.99."
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Lazer Team: Press Release: "Austin, TX - Monday, December 14, 2015 - Sci-fi comedy Lazer Team, the first feature film from pioneering creative studio Rooster Teeth, is coming to YouTube Red in the U.
- 12/29/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
This “labor of love,” as writer-director Mia Goldman describes her feature debut on the commentary track she shares with her “key collaborators” (producers, cinematographer, editor), is intended as a counter to the onslaught of cinematic violence that typically assaults us and yet “divorces us from an experience of a violent act.” It’s also based on her own understanding as a woman who was stalked, raped, and now lives with the aftermath of that experience, which is perhaps why it avoids all the overblown histrionics of other similar films that have dealt with such subject matter -- see the output of the Lifetime cable network, for instance -- and finds the quiet but difficult core of the act of will that is survival and recovery. When photographer Izzy (Robin Tunney: TV’s Prison Break; Goldman tailored the role for her) is raped in her own home by a stranger who’d stalked her,...
- 2/2/2009
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
PARK CITY -- In the first 15 minutes, "Open Window" lulls one into complacency with its idyllic images of sun-kissed Southern California and a young couple in the full flush of love, until you're suddenly and violently grabbed from behind, just like the story's main character, Izzy (Robin Tunney), when she's raped by a stranger in the sanctuary of her artist studio.
That moment and the vicious assault that follows it are the only surprises in this sometimes unbearably slow, uneven melodrama. It's sad to acknowledge, but the sensational and frightening rape scene, which is repeated in graphic flashbacks, could prove to be a draw. (Tunney is especially effective in these scenes).
Screenwriter-director Mia Goldman, a film editor making her feature directing debut, does achieve some elements of suspense and pathos in her story of a newly engaged couple whose relationship is dramatically transformed by the attack. Joel Edgerton plays her bland fiancee, Peter, and the fine character actor, Scott Wilson, turns in a solid performance as Peter's gruff, dead-beat Dad.
Cybill Shepherd shows up as Izzy's bossy mother from hell, which seems to be where the film industry often consigns actresses deemed passed their prime. Shepherd is over the top and not credible but neither are most of the characters in this film. The screenplay is riddled with complications and subplots about characters that fail to engage, go nowhere and bog down the narrative.
Denis Maloney's crisp cinematography captures the sunny seductiveness of Los Angeles as well as the shock of violence. Cliff Eidelman has assembled an earthy, jazz infused score. There's a decent film in here, but Goldman is undercut by a flawed script. The appearance of a kindly therapist played by Shirley Knight is a hackneyed plot device and a dead give-away that the script is in trouble. She also saddles her story with armchair psychology that is too pat and hard to buy.
That moment and the vicious assault that follows it are the only surprises in this sometimes unbearably slow, uneven melodrama. It's sad to acknowledge, but the sensational and frightening rape scene, which is repeated in graphic flashbacks, could prove to be a draw. (Tunney is especially effective in these scenes).
Screenwriter-director Mia Goldman, a film editor making her feature directing debut, does achieve some elements of suspense and pathos in her story of a newly engaged couple whose relationship is dramatically transformed by the attack. Joel Edgerton plays her bland fiancee, Peter, and the fine character actor, Scott Wilson, turns in a solid performance as Peter's gruff, dead-beat Dad.
Cybill Shepherd shows up as Izzy's bossy mother from hell, which seems to be where the film industry often consigns actresses deemed passed their prime. Shepherd is over the top and not credible but neither are most of the characters in this film. The screenplay is riddled with complications and subplots about characters that fail to engage, go nowhere and bog down the narrative.
Denis Maloney's crisp cinematography captures the sunny seductiveness of Los Angeles as well as the shock of violence. Cliff Eidelman has assembled an earthy, jazz infused score. There's a decent film in here, but Goldman is undercut by a flawed script. The appearance of a kindly therapist played by Shirley Knight is a hackneyed plot device and a dead give-away that the script is in trouble. She also saddles her story with armchair psychology that is too pat and hard to buy.
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A Thomas K. Barad Prod.
PARK CITY -- In the first 15 minutes, "Open Window" lulls one into complacency with its idyllic images of sun-kissed Southern California and a young couple in the full flush of love, until you're suddenly and violently grabbed from behind, just like the story's main character, Izzy (Robin Tunney), when she's raped by a stranger in the sanctuary of her artist's studio.
That moment and the vicious assault that follows it are the only surprises in this sometimes unbearably slow, uneven melodrama that's not without a few powerful sequences.
If marketed properly, the film could have limited commercial theatrical release and a possible cable TV run. It's sad to acknowledge but the sensational and frightening rape scene, which is repeated in graphic flashbacks, could prove to be a draw. (Tunney is especially effective in these scenes).
Writer-director Mia Goldman, a film editor making her feature directing debut, does achieve some elements of suspense and pathos in her story of a newly engaged couple whose relationship is dramatically transformed by the attack. Joel Edgerton plays her bland fiancee, Peter, and the fine character actor, Scott Wilson, turns in a solid performance as Peter's gruff, deadbeat Dad.
Cybill Shepherd shows up as Izzy's bossy mother from hell, which seems to be where the film industry often consigns actresses deemed passed their prime. Shepherd is over the top and not credible but neither are most of the characters in this film.
The screenplay is riddled with complications and subplots about characters that fail to engage, go nowhere and bog down the narrative.
Denis Maloney's crisp cinematography captures the sunny seductiveness of L.A. as well as the shock of violence. Cliff Eidelman has assembled an earthy, jazz infused score.
There's decent film in here, but Goldman is undercut by a flawed script. The appearance of a kindly therapist played by Shirley Knight is a hackneyed plot device and a dead giveaway that the script is in trouble. She also saddles her story with armchair psychology that's too pat and hard to buy.
PARK CITY -- In the first 15 minutes, "Open Window" lulls one into complacency with its idyllic images of sun-kissed Southern California and a young couple in the full flush of love, until you're suddenly and violently grabbed from behind, just like the story's main character, Izzy (Robin Tunney), when she's raped by a stranger in the sanctuary of her artist's studio.
That moment and the vicious assault that follows it are the only surprises in this sometimes unbearably slow, uneven melodrama that's not without a few powerful sequences.
If marketed properly, the film could have limited commercial theatrical release and a possible cable TV run. It's sad to acknowledge but the sensational and frightening rape scene, which is repeated in graphic flashbacks, could prove to be a draw. (Tunney is especially effective in these scenes).
Writer-director Mia Goldman, a film editor making her feature directing debut, does achieve some elements of suspense and pathos in her story of a newly engaged couple whose relationship is dramatically transformed by the attack. Joel Edgerton plays her bland fiancee, Peter, and the fine character actor, Scott Wilson, turns in a solid performance as Peter's gruff, deadbeat Dad.
Cybill Shepherd shows up as Izzy's bossy mother from hell, which seems to be where the film industry often consigns actresses deemed passed their prime. Shepherd is over the top and not credible but neither are most of the characters in this film.
The screenplay is riddled with complications and subplots about characters that fail to engage, go nowhere and bog down the narrative.
Denis Maloney's crisp cinematography captures the sunny seductiveness of L.A. as well as the shock of violence. Cliff Eidelman has assembled an earthy, jazz infused score.
There's decent film in here, but Goldman is undercut by a flawed script. The appearance of a kindly therapist played by Shirley Knight is a hackneyed plot device and a dead giveaway that the script is in trouble. She also saddles her story with armchair psychology that's too pat and hard to buy.
- 1/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival Live from Park City, Utah. Weâ.ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we wonâ.t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festivalâ.s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below) January 19th to the 29th, 2006Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 19, 2006'); A Matter of Degrees - Davis Guggenheim Adam's Apples - Anders Thomas Jensen All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise - Shari Cookson Battle in Heaven - Carlos Reygadas Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs In On Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture - Byron Hurt Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon - Peter Richardson Dreamland - Jason Matzner Ev Confidential: Who Killed the Electric Car? - Chris Paine Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
- 1/16/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday announced the winners of its 20th annual Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. This year's winners are Morgan Read-Davidson from Downey, Calif. for The Days Between; Seth Resnik of West Hollywood and Ron Moskovitz from Los Angeles for Fire in a Coal Mine; Michael D. Zungolo from Philadelphia for No Country; Colleen Cooper De Maio of Los Angeles for Pirates of Lesser Providence; and Gian Marco Masoni of Santa Monica for Ring of Fire. The winners were selected from nearly 6,000 scripts submitted for this year's competition. Final judging was conducted by writers Susannah Grant, John Gay, Fay Kanin and Hal Kanter, cinematographers John Bailey and Steven Poster, editor Mia Goldman, actor Eva Marie Saint, executive Bill Mechanic, producers Gale Anne Hurd, David Nicksay and Buffy Shutt, and agent Ron Mardigian. The winning writers will receive the first installment of their $30,000 prize money at a dinner in Beverly Hills on Nov. 10. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman will be the keynote speaker. Since the program's inception in 1985, 93 fellowships have been awarded. Previous winners include Grant, Raymond De Felitta and Ehren Kruger.
- 11/3/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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