In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

* In November 1999, Galaxy Quest was novelized by science fiction writer Terry Bisson, who stayed very close to the plot of the movie.

In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer / producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer.

In a bar about 1975, Moon asked comedian Graham Chapman and writer Bernard McKenna to do a " treatment " for a " mad movie ".

In Roger Ebert's review of the 2004 movie Secret Window, he stated, " A lot of people were outraged that was honored at the National Book Awards, as if a popular writer could not be taken seriously.

" I knew I wanted Kramer to think of watching the operation like going to see a movie ", explained Seinfeld writer / producer Andy Robin in an interview published in the Hollywood Reporter.

The first disc contains the movie itself, two commentaries ( one by writer Paul Schrader and the other by Professor Robert Kolker ), and trailers.

A Red Smith profile from 1956 describes one Boston writer trying to convince Ted Williams that first cheering and then booing a ballplayer was no different from a moviegoer applauding a " western " movie actor one day and saying the next " He stinks!

* September 30 – Bill Walsh, American movie producer and writer ( d. 1975 )

* Satine played by Nicole Kidman, an actress / courtesan who falls in love with a penniless poet / writer played by Ewan McGregor, in the movie Moulin Rouge !.

In August 2007, he along with co-producers Rita Wilson and Gary Goetzman, and writer and star Nia Vardalos, initiated a legal action against the production company Gold Circle Films for their share of profits from the movie.

The 1992 television movie Memphis, starring Memphis native Cybill Shepherd, who also served as executive producer and writer, was also filmed in Memphis.

* Fielder Cook ( March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003 ) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

Lucas initially suggested making the film " a haunted mansion movie ", for which Romancing the Stone writer Diane Thomas wrote a script.

New York Times writer Gerald Jonas admits that the novel's plot summary reads like a " grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction rip-off movie ," but then says that Card develops the elements well despite this " unpromising material.

On the commentary soundtrack to the 2004 DVD release of Star Wars, writer and director George Lucas describes R2-D2 as " the main driving force of the movie ... what you say in the movie business is the MacGuffin ... the object of everybody's search ".

* Howie Nave ( born 1956 ), American comedian, radio personality, writer, promoter and movie critic

The movie was written and directed by Leo D. Paur, who formerly worked as a writer on animated series such as The Transformers.

Seagal is credited as a producer and sometimes a writer on many of these DTV movies, which include Black Dawn, Belly of the Beast, Out of Reach, Submerged, Kill Switch, Urban Justice, Pistol Whipped, Against the Dark, Driven to Kill, A Dangerous Man, Born to Raise Hell and The Keeper, a movie released in Japan fifteen weeks earlier than the United States.

Jo Walton wrote: " Any one of the ideas in A Fire Upon the Deep would have kept an ordinary writer going for years.

Annotated edition of 11 diaries kept by the English writer, beginning in late August 1931 and ending in September 1949, a few months before his death.

The search for the first head coach had the team court then-Northwestern University head coach Ara Parseghian, who according to Minneapolis Star writer Jim Klobuchar — the Vikings ' first beat reporter for that newspaper — visited team management in the Twin Cities under the condition that his visit was to be kept secret from his current employer.

Wilson also compares Fort to Robert Ripley, a contemporary writer who found major success hunting oddities, and speculates that Fort's idiosyncratic prose might have kept him from greater popular success.

In the complete edition of Dostoyevsky's writings published in the Soviet Union, the editors reassembled and printed the notebooks that the writer kept while working on Crime and Punishment, in a sequence roughly corresponding to the various stages of composition.

One artist, a science fiction writer named Huga Wells-Erb Heinsturbury, starts the riot by attacking a reporter from Time magazine, now a government-run news agency which has kept the attitudes of the original corporation, including a deep hatred of science fiction.

However, Meston was kept as the main writer.

Brand has received many awards and her ongoing intellectual contribution are appreciated by the Black communities and women who find inspiration in her social activism and her writing among other women writers of African descent as expressed by writer Myrian Chancy that she found " it possible ... to engage in personal / critical work which uncovers the connections between us as Black women at the same time as re-discovering that which has been kept from us: our cultural heritage, the language of our grandmothers, ourselves.

As a writer, Rowley belonged to the crowd of collaborating playwrights who kept Henslowe and Alleyn supplied with new drama.

In his second year there, he became chief leader writer, a position he kept until 1977.

One editorial writer suggested that among the many types of extraneous circumstances which should be kept out of hiring decisions was personal beauty, sometimes termed lookism:

The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is a book containing the published selections of a journal kept by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, documenting and exploring his religious and visionary experiences.

An account of Cem's captivity — and of the political machinations that kept him captive — forms the basis of the historical novel, Francesca: Les Jeux du Sort ( 1872 ), written by the Haitian writer and political exile, Demesvar Delorme.

It was kept going for many decades by its Director, Enid Lakeman, an inveterate pamphleteer, public speaker and writer of letters to newspapers about STV.

Johnson described his working methods this way: " I ’ ve kept writer ’ s workbooks since around 1972.

Alternatively, if there is no stenographer, a tapelogger or shorthand writer will be there to operate the tapes and ensure that a log of the proceedings is kept.

Tom Zarrilli, an artist, photographer and writer has kept a long running online journal entitled Yard Sale Addict that explores the anthropological aspects of the yard sales he visits near his home in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Washington Post called him " the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction "; another critic declared " It's a skilled writer indeed who can suggest a horror so shocking that one is grateful it was kept offstage.

Ahmad Y Hassan has rejected the thesis that lack of creative thinking was a cause, arguing that science was always kept separate from religious argument ; he instead analyses the decline in terms of economic and political factors, drawing on the work of the 14th Century writer Ibn Khaldun.

In 1927, Edwin Balmer, a short-story writer who had written for the magazine, took over as editor ; in the summer of 1929 the magazine was bought by McCall Corporation, which changed the name to Redbook but kept Balmer on as editor.

Neither the European nor the American publishers of the writer ever met him personally, or at least the people with whom they negotiated the publication and later also the filming of his books always maintained they were only Traven's literary agents, the identity of the writer himself was to be kept secret.

* The writer William S. Burroughs kept an apartment at the former YMCA building at 222 Bowery, known as the Bunker, from 1974 until his death in 1997.