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Eric Roth
The 60th annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards were announced this week, highlighting excellence in dramatic writing from young writers. This year’s competition was judged by NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt, Richard LaGravenese, and Shonda Rhimes.
Logline: The story follows Jimmy, the first-of-its-kind social interactive robot created by Intel and Trossen Robotics.
Logline: The story follows Jimmy, the first-of-its-kind social interactive robot created by Intel and Trossen Robotics.
Logline: Based on real life paleo-archaeologist Richard Leakey who became an activist for the preservation of African elephants, battling ivory poachers during the 1980’s.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: An Australian heroin addict convicted of robbery escapes from maximum-security prison and flees to India and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. He gets involved in counterfeiting, smuggling and gunrunning, which leads him to Afghanistan, where he and a mob boss battle the Russians.
Scribe set to rewrite Angelina Jolie-starrer!
Logline: Story follows the fascinating relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as they piloted the free world to victory in World War II.
Benjamin Button scribe goes on another fantastical journey with Robert Ripley!
Logline: Story will follow the rise and fall of Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
Logline: The families of two neighboring farms become embroiled in a long-time feud after a Hatfield, fighting as a Confederate solider, kills a McCoy, who fought as a Union solider, during the Civil War.
Logline: Story centers on Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks.
Logline: Thousands of years in the future, young Paul Atreides and his family relocate to the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the spice melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe.
Logline: When a young girl discovers that her mother is remarrying, she makes a wish for her parents to get back together and causes Manhattan, where her father lives, to break away and float across the Atlantic ocean towards her home in England.
Logline: Follows the adventures of newspaper columnist Robert Ripley as he travels the world in search of the strange and the fantastical.
Logline: A young up-and-coming singer falls in love with, and marries a rock star, only to see his career fade, as hers begins to flourish.