ASHES, Nuclear Terrorists Attack Hollywood is a 1979 prophetic screenplay about Jake Horner, an ex-U.S. Air Force Officer turned peace activist, who builds a scale demonstration nuclear weapon to warn the public how easy it is to do. Ahmad, a Mid-East terrorist, steals and arms the nuclear weapon and races to Southern California to set it off in heavily populated Los Angeles.

Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company.But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.EX MACHINA is an intense psychological th...

The novella tells the tale of two orphans, Marguerite and Neville, who are separated in infancy and raised in different countries. Marguerite grows up in France, while Neville is raised in England. As young adults, they each receive a mysterious inheritance that leads them to a fateful encounter in the fictional Alpine village of No Thoroughfare.Without giving away too much of the plot, the story combines elements of mystery, romance, and drama as the two protagonists navigate their separa...

Ben Sanderson is an alcoholic who has hit rock bottom. Cutting all personal and professional ties to his L.A. existence, he sets off for the lights of Vegas on a mission: to drink himself to death. There he meets Sera, a beautiful, seen-it-all hooker. From the moment Ben and Sera connect, they form a unique bond based upon unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever. In the words of David Thompson of Los Angeles Magazine, Leaving Las Vegas...

This was the first time I felt as involved in film as in working in theatre. My immersion in Parade’s End from the writing to the finishing touches took up the time I might have given to writing my own play but, perhaps to an unwarranted degree, I think of this Parade’s End as mine, such was the illusion of proprietorship over Ford’s characters and story.—Tom Stoppard, from the IntroductionTom Stoppard’s BBC / HBO dramatization of Ford Madox Ford’s ...

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When King Charles II was dying, the name of only one of his many mistresses was in his mind and on his lips: that of Nell Gwyn. Born in extreme poverty, forced to become a child prostitute, she went on the stage and became the most popular actress of the time until Charles took her into his bed, where her beauty, wit and liveliness made her in the end preferable to his other many mistresses, who were either common prostitutes found for him in the bawdy-houses or on the streets by the royal...

Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production hotels' through detailed case studies of Denmark's public service production culture.

This collection of Paul Auster screenplays brings together the film work of a writer whose novels have earned him the reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' ( Times Literary Supplement) Auster has also brought this sense of restless invention to the art of screenwriting, producing Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost.The prize-winning Smoke tells the story...

Matron, Elizabeth Waverly, and her care home helper, Norman Christie, take great delight in abusing residents at an old-age peoples home. Norman in particular loves his bit of sport on bath nights; he likes dunking their heads and watching them choke. Unfortunately for them, the rising death count hasn't gone unnoticed.After a police investigation they are arrested, found guilty and sentenced to eleven years in prison.On their release in the year 2000 the future looks grim. T...

It was the night between 4 and 5 August 1962 when Marilyn Monroe exhaled her last breath. The official cause: suicide by overdose of barbiturates. But the questions (and unanswered) are too many. Why they have never been officially questioned her housekeeper Eunice Murray, and her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson? Why the autopsy showed that there were no pills in her stomach, but several bites in the area of the heart? Why a woman with a spectacular career ahead of her had to kill herself? In ...

If there is such a thing as a guardian angel, Claire Ferguson's had to be exhausted. She moved into her new condo for a fresh start. Everything was fine until she pulled her rattling, smoking car into her driveway. That was when the yelling started. Where the hell was the Welcome Wagon?Lane Hartwell didn't view himself as a grouch. So occasionally he yelled. Who didn't? His sexy new neighbor was noisy and rude. He couldn't work in chaos, and she was like a force of nature.Lov...