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Will Gluck to direct 'Easy A'
Published 11/13/2008 at FilmWad
Will Gluck will direct Easy A under Screen Gems.  According to Variety it's a comedy that tells a modern day version of "The Scarlett Letter.  A high school girl acts like the school slut in order to benefit from all the things that a high school slut benefits from. Gluck, who just finished directing the Screen Gems comedy "Fired Up," will do a polish to the script, bought by Screen Gems topper Clint Culpepper as a spec (Daily Variety, Aug. 14). "This is the sharpest, funniest script I have read in a long time," said Gluck, who also recently co-created and exec produced the 20th ...

Dark Knight Disqualifies. Trade Roughage 11/13/08
Published 11/13/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
The Dark Knight has been disqualified from the race for the Original Music Score Oscar. After four hours of discussing the matter, the executive committee of the Academy music branch non-unanimously deemed the score, which was technically only co-composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard yet which credited three others on sheet music for royalty purposes, ineligible on account of the inclusion of these partial collaborators. Michael Moore claims his Fahrenheit 9/11 follow-up (once titled Fahrenheit 9/11 and a 1/2) has become less like a sequel to that film and more like ...

'Easy A' finds director
Published 11/13/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
Will Gluck is set to direct Screen Gems' upcoming comedy "Easy A," according to Variety. Written by Bert V. Royal, the film centers on a high school student who seeks financial and personal gain by pretending to be the school slut. The trade further describes the project as a modern reimagining of "The Scarlet Letter." Gluck, co-creator of television's "The Loop" and producer of "Andy Richter Controls the Universe," is currently wrapping his directorial debut "Fired Up."