Scott Beggs

Movie stuff at VanityFair, Thrillist, IndieWire, Film School Rejects, and The Broken Projector Podcast@brokenprojector | Writing short stories at Adventitious.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, BFFs Forever

By Scott Beggs 

Movie Gods Steven Spielberg and George Lucas sat down with Entertainment Weekly and gave one hell of an interview. They laugh together, act like an old married couple and get their hands dirty about making Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

SAG Interim Pacts Don’t Mean Much

By Scott Beggs 

The cold wind you felt brush against you this week probably came from Hollywood instead of the IRS. After all, what’s worse: The fact that you forgot to pay your taxes and will be going to prison with Wesley Snipes forever or that The Screen Actors Guild started their contract negotiations?

You Wouldn’t Like Edward Norton When He’s Angry

By Scott Beggs 

wasn’t exactly sure how a few speed bumps in the creative process over at Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk turned into an all-out, shotgun wielding feud between star Edward Norton and the studio heads when I first read about it. Turns out, it was the media’s fault.

‘Antichrist’ to be Shot in Germany

By Scott Beggs 

I realize that most of you that read this site will assume that a film titled Antichrist is a Dane Cook biopic, but thankfully, it’s not.

Robert Redford, ESPN Team Up for Jackie Robinson Biopic

By Scott Beggs 

Robinson’s story of breaking the color barrier in major league baseball is one of the most legendary stories in this country’s history (sports or otherwise), and now that story – the story of his life – is going to be brought to the big screen with ESPN and Robert Redford producing.

David DiGilio is Damned

By Scott Beggs 

After acquiring the rights to ‘The Damned’ last August, Dreamworks has hired on David DiGilio to write the script.

Just What We Need: Less Vin Diesel

By Scott Beggs 

For whatever reason, we haven’t been covering Mathieu Kassovitz’s science fiction saga Babylon A.D. very closely on the site. Maybe it was the presence of Vin Diesel.

Chaos Theory Movie Review

By Scott Beggs 

Universal Buys the Moon, Forces it to Fight Earth

By Scott Beggs 

Even after the script for Earth v. Moon finally found a home at Universal, it appears that they are keeping the plot an industry secret.