Lionsgate has jumped in with a script up for award consideration:

Warrior - undated, unspecified draft script by Gavin O’Connor and Anthony Tambakis & Cliff Dorfman (revisions by Gavin O’Connor and Anthony Tambakis – hosted by: Lionsgate – in pdf format

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he’s trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament — a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother.

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Universal Pictures has jumped in with Scripts up for award consideration:

Bridesmaids - undated, unspecified draft script by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig – hosted by: Universal Pictures – in pdf format

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride’s best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

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The October, 2011 One Week Challenge genre was Gothic Horror. The theme was Ghosts are not bad, just misunderstood.

Participants had one week to write a 6 – 12 page script on the genre and theme. There were 38 scripts which were read and discussed over on the discussion board. One script was selected to be audio performed by the fine folks over at iScript.com.

That selected script is Veil of Blood by Ryan Lee.

A young woman ventures to her uncle’s crumbling plantation in 1874 Louisiana.

You can read along with the pdf version of the script. You can discuss this script and all the OWC entries here. Click the “Play” button to listen to the script.

 

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Thanks to everyone who participated in the challenge. – Don

Very special thanks to iScript.com for sponsoring the challenge and selecting the final script.

More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

The Debt - march 29, 2009 revised script by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel and Stefan about their former colleague David . All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.

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More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Jane Eyre - undated, unspecified draft script by Moira Buffini (based on the novel by Charlotte Bronte) – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he’s hiding a terrible secret.

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More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Beginners - undated, unspecified draft script by Mike Mills – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

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More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Pariah - undated, unspecified draft script by Dee Rees – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

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More scripts up for 2011 award consideration.

Hanna - march 3, 2010 revised script script by Seth Lochhead and David Farr (Story by Seth Lochhead) – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

Hanna is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin.

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Award season is fast approaching. Focus Features has come out of the gate posting scripts to movies they have up for award consideration.

We start with:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - december 17, 2010 revised script script by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan (based on the novel by John le Carre – hosted by: Focus Features – in pdf format

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6′s echelons.

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