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EXCLUSIVE: Green Book Oscar-winner Nick Vallelonga is teaming with Nicolas Cage for action-thriller 10 Double Zero. Vallelonga, who was part of the team to win Oscars for Best Screenplay and Best Picture for Green Book, has penned the film alongside Paul Sloan (I Am Wrath). This will be his first screenplay to go into…

Backstage tonight, two-time Oscar winner Nick Vallelonga fielded a reporter’s question over the “controversy in storytelling” in his Best Picture winner Green Book.  Soon after the film was released, members of Shirley’s family came forward saying that the film was “full of lies” with the American classical pianist’s…

Green Book beat out three other Best Picture contenders and the well-regarded First Reformed to claim the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly took the stage, about an hour after the film’s Mahershala Ali won for Best Supporting Actor and their collective sigh of relief…

What was it like to turn Mahershala Ali into a pianist convincing enough to look like he was playing the intricate compositions of Dr Don Shirley? Green Book‘s composer Kris Bowers, whose hands were often seen in the film, explained all that as well as how Ali transformed from a slumping jazz piano prodigy into one…

EXCLUSIVE: Green Book co-writer Nick Vallelonga has apologized for a volatile tweet that surfaced last night. Vallelonga, whose father Tony Lip is the principal character played in the film by Viggo Mortensen, wasn’t reachable last night to answer why in 2015 he posted a tweet embracing a debunked Donald Trump…

It certainly has been an up-and-down week for Green Book co-screenwriter Nick Vallelonga. Days after sharing the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, the scribe has deleted his Twitter account after an old tweet resurfaced in which he echoed then-candidate Donald Trump’s view that Muslims in New Jersey were seen…

In a surprise win, Universal/DreamWorks/Participant Media’s Green Book took best original screenplay at the Golden Globes on Sunday. Many awards season bloggers were betting on Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite or Annapurna’s Vice, but Green Book‘s win here is a potential indicator of what could be a best picture…

Even before the people chose Green Book at the Toronto Film Festival and anointed Peter Farrelly's film a surprise Oscar contender, the film survived a road trip as overflowing with twists and turns as the story onscreen. Green Book recreates the concert tour of piano virtuoso Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a black…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Vallelonga, who co-wrote Green Book with Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly, has set his next film. Vallelonga will direct his script That’s Amore!, and he will produce it with Gene Kirkwood. There is symmetry in the project. Vallelonga based Green Book on testimony he drew from his father, Tony Lip…