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The legacy of screenwriters usually boils down to a life’s list of screen credits. Sometimes it goes beyond that, to the impact one makes on others. Latter is the case with Stewart Stern, the Rebel Without A Cause scribe who died last week. Stephen Chbosky, the writer-director of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, and Ch…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Chbosky, who directed Emma Watson in the sleeper hit The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, has re-teamed with the actress at 20th Century Fox on While We’re Young. Based on the Adena Halpern novel 29, While We’re Young will be scripted by (500) Days Of Summer scribes Michael H. Weber and Scott…

Brian Brooks is managing editor of MovieLine. There were a few weeks there when the specialties shined compared to their studio brethren — overall box office slumped, but newcomers like The Master and Arbitrage impressed. Well, the final weekend of September saw limited-release titles lack the star-power of those…

Brian Brooks is managing editor of MovieLine. The overall box office still has a case of the doldrums but a couple of new specialty movies this weekend had robust openings. Summit scored with its rollout of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, averaging a stellar $61K. That’s the fourth best per-theater average of the…

Brian Brooks is managing editor of MovieLine. The specialty arena this weekend offers Summit Entertainment’s platform debut of popular Sundance narrative entry The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Summit hopes word-of-mouth will lure art house crowds as well as heavily courted MTVers. Documentaries flesh out the rest of…

Brian Brooks is managing editor of MovieLine. The specialty arena this weekend offers Summit Entertainment’s platform debut of popular Sundance narrative entry The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Summit hopes word-of-mouth will lure art house crowds as well as heavily courted MTVers. Documentaries flesh out the rest of…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Walsh is about to get scary – Scary Movie 5 that is. The Private Practice star has signed up to do a cameo in the latest installment of the mock horror franchise. She joins the just named Heather Locklear and Molly Shannon in the movie. Malcolm Lee is directing Scary Movie 5 from a script by David…

Lionsgate has shifted the release of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower forward a week to September 21 from the 14th. Opening in limited release, the movie written and directed by Stephen Chbosky stars Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Nina Dobrev and Paul Rudd. Watch the…

Lionsgate and Summit, companies built on the novel adaptations of The Hunger Games and The Twilight Saga, are staying on their bookish paths. So much so that the combined entity has a hold on the latest New York Times bestseller lists that the company’s betting will turn into box office success down the line. Divergent…

Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller introduced this new trailer at tonight’s MTV Movie Awards. Written and directed by Stephen Chbosky and based on his novel,The Perks Of Being A Wallflower opens September 14. Get More: Nina Dobrev, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, 2012 Movie Awards, New…

20th Century Fox moved up the release date of its Ang Lee-directed drama Life Of Pi from Christmas week to November 21. That’s the date Warner Bros had staked out for its Alfonso Cuaron-directed sci-fi drama Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock, which recently was pushed to sometime in 2013. Now Lee’s 3D adaptation of…

Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev has dropped Innovative Artists as her agency. The signature CW series was renewed for next season early on, and Dobrev also has been cast in The Perks of Being A Wallflower, the film based on Stephen Chbosky's…