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Becoming a household name, after starring in three successful sci-fi franchises, Zoe Saldaña has witnessed prolific growth in her career. Further, cementing herself as one of the most recognizable faces in the industry, Saldaña went on to join the Oscar race with her latest project Emilia Pérez.

Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez | image: Netflix

So today, let’s take a look at a few of her iconic movies, spanning independent dramas, live-action animation, and even sci-fi iterations. Delving deeper into Zoe Saldaña’s enviable filmography, we’ve come up with 10 of her best movies so far. Believe it or not, it wasn’t easy to pick just 10 out of so many of her phenomenal movies. So, join us to check out our list.

10. The Words (2012) Zoe Saldaña and Bradley Cooper in The Words | image: CBS Films

Director: Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldaña, Olivia Wilde

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A couple of days ago, the internet lighted up when it appeared that Dennis Quaid was joining the ranks of Christian Bale and David O. Russell for full blown, on-set rants. A clip of the actor in full freak out mode went viral with many wondering what the story behind the video was. Well, the answer is here. Read More: Dennis Quaid & Director Lee Sternthal Talk Shooting Digitally Sorry, this isn't a juicy story of a movie production gone awry. Rather, it's a Funny Or Die video in which Quaid loses his cool when a series of increasingly absurd interruptions keep ruining his takes. Eventually, he totally loses it, with a series of sight gags and puns to top it all off. Silly and ridiculous stuff, so watch below.

Rebellion | Promised Land | Evil Dead | Olympus Has Fallen | Love Is All You Need | Me And You | F*ck For Forest | Bait | The Words

Rebellion (15)

(Mathieu Kassovitz, 2011, Fra) Mathieu Kassovitz, Iabe Lapacas, Malik Zidi. 135 mins

Working with a real-life 1980s incident in New Caledonia (not dissimilar to a French Falklands), Kassovitz crafts a thoughtful thriller with no heroes, only good intentions compromised by colonialist mistrust and distant politics. His negotiator is set between a hair-triggered French military and separatist rebels, but with an election back home, not everyone wants a peaceful outcome.

Promised Land (15)

(Gus Van Sant, 2012, Us/UAE) Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand. 107 mins

With fracking as the central concern, this finds it hard to avoid being an "issue movie", but there's some human drama to it. Damon's gas agent comes to an archetypal small town with a buyout in mind, but the locals and their country ways get to him.

Chicago – What sins can a man commit and manage to live with for the rest of his days? Can he enjoy the rewards of unearned praise and adoration? These provocative questions could easily serve as the basis for a compelling thriller, as proven by a multitude of titles including Woody Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and “Match Point.”

First-time filmmakers Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman (nephew of Jack) are skilled at threading these questions into a multi-layered narrative, but have no idea of how to explore them in any meaningful way. Their debut feature, “The Words,” spends the majority of its running time stringing the audience along before abandoning them just when the narrative has started to become interesting. All the goodwill built from a series of intriguing, often well-acted scenes is lost in a single, unforgivably premature cut to black.

Blu-ray Rating: 2.0/5.0

In light of the enormous critical acclaim...

The Words is a film with a fascinating story at its core. It revolves around a writer, Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), who puts everything he has into writing a book that ends up being rejected by every publisher he submits it to. Just when he thinks his writing career might not take off, he happens upon a valise that contains an old manuscript for a novel written 50 years ago, telling the tale of a young soldier who falls in love with a French woman.

In his desperateness to have a successful writing career, he takes the amazingly-written novel and submits it as his own. It is immediately published, getting him massive acclaim from everyone who reads it. It brings him everything he ever wanted: fame, success, and a means of getting his other work published. However, the novel’s true author (Jeremy Irons) ends up finding him, not for revenge,...

This week: Milla Jovovich goes to the heart of the Umbrella Corporation to stop the global zombie epidemic in "Resident Evil: Retribution," the fifth movie in the popular sci-fi action series that sees the return of original "Resident Evil" badass Michelle Rodriguez.

Also new this week is the Southern-fried pitch-black comedy "Killer Joe" starring Matthew McConaughey, the bike-messenger thriller "Premium Rush" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the romantic drama "The Words" with Bradley Cooper and the financial thriller "Arbitrage" with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.

'Resident Evil: Retribution'

Box Office: $42 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 31% Rotten

Storyline: In this fifth installment of the enduring zombie apocalypse series based on the video game, Alice (Milla Jovovich) escapes from her cell inside Umbrella's prime research facility and finds that old friends have become new enemies. Director Paul W.S. Anderson's "Retribution" brings back Michelle Rodriguez, Oded Fehr, Boris Kodjoe, Sienna Guillory and more from previous installments.

After a short absence (for medical reasons and not court-ordered community service), we’re back just in time for your last minute holiday shopping needs. Unsurprisingly, The Dark Knight Rises and The Dark Knight Trilogy are still at the top of the Blu-Ray sales charts. If, for some mind-blowing reason that I can’t even begin to fathom, you’re undecided about adding the former to your Blu-Ray collection, you can check out our The Dark Knight Rises Blu-Ray review.

This week, the Total Recall remake gets a home release, Resident Evil: Retribution brings hordes of zombies home for the holidays, and relive the glory days of the 90s with the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

Ready for this week’s top releases? Then cowabunga!

Total Recall

Release Date: December 18th, 2012

Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, and Bill Nighy.

Director: Len Wiseman

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 24, 2012

Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99

Studio: Sony

Bradley Cooper and Zoë Saldana star in The Words.

Bradley Cooper (Limitless) and Zoë Saldana (Colombiana) lead a top-notch cast in the 2012 drama romance film The Words.

Cooper stars as Rory Jansen, a young literary hopeful who risks it all to become a success. While on their honeymoon in Paris, Rory and his wife Dora (Saldana) step inside an antique shop where they find a briefcase that will later reveal the key to the career he has always desired… but the find comes with a steep price and the revelation that life’s choices can have a drastic effect on not just the “chooser,” but on all those around him.

Written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal (both of whom collaborated on the story for Tron: Legacy), The Words also stars Jeremy Irons (Margin Call), Dennis Quaid (Pandorum...

14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.

Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors

1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)

Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)

2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)

Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)

3. The Sapphires

Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)

4. The Wall (Die Wand)

Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)

5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)

Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)

6. Augustine

Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.

In his new movie in theaters, The Words, Bradley Cooper plays a struggling writer named Rory who finds a brilliant manuscript and passes it off as his own. The movie's plot is a multi-layered story about self-doubt, honesty and integrity, but the story of how the movie made it from the printed page to the silver screen is one about friendship. In a ReelzChannel exclusive interview, Cooper and his childhood friend Brian Klugman, who co-wrote and co-directed The Words with Lee Sternthal, revealed to our own Jeremy Parsons how they have helped each other battle their own personal demons over the years.

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Note: This post discusses plot details of The Words but nothing that really requires you to have seen the film, which doesn’t necessarily have spoiler-able elements anyway. There are no tonal similarities between The Words and a Coen brothers film. And most of the laughter heard at the screening I attended was a kind of awkward response to some very cheesy dialogue. But I couldn’t help thinking of Raising Arizona while watching the new drama, which was written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. The duo previously contributed to what became the finished script for Tron: Legacy, and with this their only second produced work, it’s already obvious they’re very interested in ideas pertaining to creators and their creations. In fact, just as with the Tron sequel, we can forget about any kind of emotional engagement with The Words. It’s a film concerned with players rather than people, and...

The Words

Starring Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid

Directed by Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal

Rated PG-13

Plagiarism: Why do some people do it? From an outsider’s point of view, it seems like a cut and dry issue…don’t do it. But what if it was you, faced with trying to achieve something you know deep down inside you can’t accomplish…but, with someone else’s words, you could? What if you found yourself with material that no one would ever know belong to someone else, would you do it? That right there is at the heart of The Words. An interesting idea about the riches and repercussions of making someone else’s words your own. To bad The Words is a boring, useless, uninspired film that should’ve ended up being a TV movie of week on the Lifetime channel.

But before we delve into that,...

As we transition into the unofficial start of autumn, the films take on a similarly seasonal tone, ranging from somber to bleak. Larceny, inebriation, lechery, and gore pepper this weekend’s releases, creating a veritable smorgasbord of tributes to deadly sinning. There’s also the odd comedy, sure, but even they seem to have dipped into the dark debauchery bucket for inspiration. But don’t fret too much, friends: if you’re starting to feel Sadd, there’s always the IMAX/3D rerelease of your favorite childhood action flick to patron. Enjoy! “The Words,” written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, gets our vote this week for Best Use of Convoluted Formatting. Novelist Clay (Dennis Quaid) has written a book. As he reads passages aloud, the film flashes to a depiction of that novel: Rory (Bradley Cooper), himself an aspiring writer, has received acclaim for publishing a manuscript he didn’t compose.

Bradley Cooper stars as a writer facing the moral and ethical dilemma of plagiarizing another man's work in his latest film, The Words. The film, co-directed and co-written by childhood pals Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, opens in theaters on Friday, September 7. Cooper plays Rory Jansen, a struggling author who stumbles upon a briefcase with a manuscript hidden inside while on his honeymoon in Italy. Desperate for success, Jansen publishes the manuscript as his own. The book is a commercial and critical success, but also reveals a plethora of ethical and moral challenges. The cast includes Dennis

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Plagiarism’s all the rage-arism, and here comes The Words to turn the cosmic gulf between a writer’s longing to be a Writer and his meager talent into a high-toned melodrama about a guy (Bradley Cooper) who publishes someone else’s work as his own and becomes the toast of actors with bad upper-class accents. The movie, written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, is desultory when it’s not inept, but the set-up is so good that you can’t help sticking it out to the (unforgivable) end.The Words opens not with the writer protagonist but another famous writer who reads a story about the writer protagonist to a rapt audience that includes a worshipful grad student. The famous writer is played by Dennis Quaid, who’s never convincing as a brain, the dishy grad student by Olivia Wilde, who’s never convincing as a human.

There’s a compelling idea at the core of The Words, especially as acted out by Bradley Cooper and the incomparable Jeremy Irons, but it’s nearly extinguished by the material that surrounds it, sorry to say. The premise is solid: a struggling writer chances upon a long-lost manuscript and publishes it as his own. Unfortunately, writer-directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal try to take this straightforward concept to “the next level” by wrapping it in a parallel story of a successful author (Dennis Quaid) who is challenged when he recounts this tale. The wraparound structure is not only unnecessary but downright confusing, leading the movie to an unsatisfying...

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Chicago – It may seem like easy bait for a critic but the quote whores supplied a dozen or so words for the mysterious ads for the new drama “The Words” and so I’d like to play their little game. I have a few words of my own – “Dull.” “Inert.” “Pretentious.” “Uninteresting.” “Inconsistent.” “Craptastic.” Put those on your ad.

Rating: 1.5/5.0

“The Words” is fifteen minutes of movie stretched out to a 96-minute running time that feels twice as long. It is cinematic Ambien, the kind of limp affair that mistakes overheated dialogue for character or action. I was relatively with this drama for a good hour, critically peeved by a few elements that I’ll get to later but forgiving because of where it might have been going. It goes nowhere other than to take a left turn from disappointment into total mess in the final thirty minutes which are...

Words are extremely powerful things. They're capable doing so much, and in essence they are such small things. That's what The Words is all about. It's a film inside of a film inside of another film in a kind of set of Russian nesting dolls disguised as a complete film.

More so than the importance of words in this movie is the idea that nothing is as important as your own words. To plagiarize is to outright lie, and it's a mistake that can never be taken back, whether or not things are made right on the surface, they can't ever be right again. The emptiness that plagues a plagiarist drives the most interesting part of a strong script from writer/directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, backed by some terrific performances.

Author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) is giving a reading of his new novel The Words, about an aspiring...

Frequently described as “that movie where Bradley Cooper plagiarizes,” The Words is much more complicated than its core premise – as evidenced by the difficulty of marketing the film to potential viewers. The movie’s trailers present an odd mix of romance and thriller genres but the film is actually more of a contemplative character drama.

First time feature writer/directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal were responsible for the project from page to screen and the pair deliver a lot of interesting ideas, especially for moviegoers who love literary culture/genuinely enjoy reading and writing. However, with a big-name cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid, and Olivia Wilde, there are sure to be plenty of filmgoers who are drawn in by familiar faces only to ...

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The Words

Directed by: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Ben Barnes

Running Time: 1 hr 36 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: September 7, 2012

Plot: A writer (Cooper) is loved for his book, but there are personal and public prices he might pay if the true story comes out.

Who’S It For? I think it’s a tough sell. If you love Cooper no matter what, and want to see him in a quiet drama, then that would be your main motivation.

Overall

It’s not the fault of the film that it’s being distributed by CBS Films, but I can’t help feel a connection to the TV channel. The Words feels like a made-for-tv movie, with an oddly good cast, squeezed in to roles they shouldn’t bother playing.

It’s a tough sell. After this, this is a film about a famous author,...

Films that dare to explore the nuanced art of writing - indeed, the mind of The Writer - are dicey endeavors, always. They become all the dicier when writer's block becomes a factor. In this case, it's not any of the on-screen writers suffering under the condition; it's the screenwriters. Unfortunately for The Words, the screenwriters are also the directors, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. Considering that the pair's biggest prior joint credit was the story for 2010's Tron: Legacy, it may come as no surprise that this latest effort is a poorly paced and uneventful journey. It's also evident that they are quite enamored with it, the film's unearned self-importance inflating slowly and resulting in a level of subtle irritation mixed with good...

Films that dare to explore the nuanced art of writing - indeed, the mind of The Writer - are dicey endeavors, always. They become all the dicier when writer's block becomes a factor. In this case, it's not any of the on-screen writers suffering under the condition; it's the screenwriters. Unfortunately for The Words, the screenwriters are also the directors, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. Considering that the pair's biggest prior joint credit was the story for 2010's Tron: Legacy, it may come as no surprise that this latest effort is a poorly paced and uneventful journey. It's also evident that they are quite enamored with it, the film's unearned self-importance inflating slowly and resulting in a level of subtle irritation mixed with good...

This weekend's openers at the box office offer anything-but a stellar buffet of films. Bradley Cooper starrer The Words and The Cold Light of Day are the only two films unspooling in a wide range of theaters, that is if you can call Cold's 1,511 reach "wide." Both are being hammered by critics. Limited openers offer quality, but out of reach for most viewers - we'll get to those in a few. The Words from CBS Films offers up a strong cast with Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Olivia Wilde, Dennis Quaid, J.K. Simmons and Ben Barnes all joining Cooper in the Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal-scripted-and-directed drama. Rotten Tomatoes has a bad 17% positive score on this one, but general viewer ratings are above the 70% mark, so our advice is ignore the critics, check it out yourselves. Don't expect sensational helming as Cooper's pal Klugman is making his feature-length directorial with Sternthal on The Words.

This weekend's openers at the box office offer anything-but a stellar buffet of films. Bradley Cooper starrer The Words and The Cold Light of Day are the only two films unspooling in a wide range of theaters, that is if you can call Cold's 1,511 reach "wide." Both are being hammered by critics. Limited openers offer quality, but out of reach for most viewers - we'll get to those in a few. The Words from CBS Films offers up a strong cast with Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Olivia Wilde, Dennis Quaid, J.K. Simmons and Ben Barnes all joining Cooper in the Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal-scripted-and-directed drama. Rotten Tomatoes has a bad 17% positive score on this one, but general viewer ratings are above the 70% mark, so our advice is ignore the critics, check it out yourselves. Don't expect sensational helming as Cooper's pal Klugman is making his feature-length directorial with Sternthal on The Words.

Note: This review contains spoilers.

For much of its runtime, The Words plays like the cinematic equivalent of the notice every college syllabus contains about plagiarism. The one that says copying someone else’s work is an unspeakably wicked crime, one that should never be performed under any circumstances and will irreparably shatter one’s career, life, and mental health. Even if the point is a fair one, the film, like the syllabus message, relates this concept with such staggering ineptitude, such dreadfully poor writing and overblown, arrogant, repellently self-important melodrama, that one finds oneself thinking plagiarized content, of any sort, would undoubtedly be more compelling than this wretched material one has been handed.

Or to put it in less figurative terms: The Words is an absolutely terrible movie from top to bottom. Writers/directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal have penned one of the single most abysmal, incompetent screenplays I have ever encountered,...

The Words

Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal

Written by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal

USA, 2012

The effect of watching The Words is akin to hearing someone read a book report that’s based off the CliffsNotes of the CliffNotes of a popular book. The sheer laziness on display in this would-be character study/thriller about a writer whose zeal for personal and professional gain comes at the cost of an innocent, unknowing life is baffling. Co-writers and co-directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal try very hard to gussy up their story by encouraging actors like Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana to share baleful glances, but The Words is an empty, soulless film with nothing to say.

Cooper plays Rory Jansen, a struggling writer who’s tired of getting rejection notices that amount to “Your writing is great, but unmarketable.” While on his honeymoon with his new wife (Saldana...

Bradley Cooper learns a lesson about the perils of plagiarism in The Words.  The actor plays a celebrated writer who published an anonymous author's work as his own, and discovers the price he must pay. Also starring Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde, the drama from writer-directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal is one of several films hitting theaters this weekend. Photos: Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana Celebrate 'The Words' With Friends Meanwhile, the comedy Bachelorette directed by Leslye Headland stars Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan and Rebel Wilson. The film follows three friends who are asked to be bridesmaids

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May leave you speechless by how dull it can be.

A few years back, there was a mystery-thriller from a major studio, that had one of those Wtf endings, and not in a good way. In the event you haven’t seen this film, I’m not going to spoil it for you by revealing its title. I will hint that its biggest star, was an actor who is probably best known for a teen comedy where his idea of professing his love to his girlfriend, was holding a boombox over his head, blasting Peter Gabriel outside her bedroom window. Anyway, this mystery-thriller featured ten characters stranded at a remote hotel, attempting to determine who was slowly picking them off, one by one.

Some of the characters were easy to identify with, while others simply deserved to get whacked. In the end, it didn’t matter, since none of them existed.

Title: The Words Directors: Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal It’s more than words (good song by the way), but not by much… Writers, this story is mainly for you. Yet The Words does have the ability to penetrate other ponderous topics, and therefore, minds, as well. Going with the old story-within-a-story delivery, the engrossing 96 minutes almost becomes too short. You’re left wanting more and perhaps the co-writing/directing team of Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal should have given us some. It’s not that it is one of those endings that end abruptly; it just was laced with many subtle symbolic metaphors that you kind of wish you had the rewind [ Read More ]...

Grads of the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and emerging filmmakers Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal made the leap to directing together with the dark drama The Words, which stars Bradley Cooper as a heralded writer haunted by guilt when he steals someone else's story. And with their ambitious directorial debut set to hit theaters tomorrow, the pair is already poised for their next project, a frightening adaptation of Generation Dead author Daniel Walter's new Ya novel Break My Heart 1,000 Times. The haunting in this feature will be far more literal than The Words', as Break My Heart 1,000 Times is set in a bleak future where ghosts linger on Earth following a cataclysmic occurrence known only as The Event. The heroine of this creepy tale is Veronica, a teen girl who notices the dead aren't moving on, they're powering up.but to what end? THR reveals Gold Circle Films, which is...

The supernatural thriller Break My Heart 1,000 times is full of the unexpected - and that's not including the actual plot. Based on the Young Adult novel of the same name (by Hollywood screenwriter Daniel Waters who wrote the teen dark comedy classic Heathers), it's about a post-apocolyptic era where ghosts roam the earth. While most of the spirits are harmless, a 16-year old girl believes she is being stalked by a serial killer ghost. Doesn't sound like a movie for tweens, but even more confounding is that this Disturbia/The Sixth Sense type screenplay is being adapted by Jason Fuchs, the former child actor who has only written two other movies: Ice Age: Continental Drift and the Nickelodeon TV movie "Rags." Break My Heart 1,000 Times will be helmed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, the writer-directors of Bradley Cooper-Zoe Saldana movie The Words. Gold Circle Films (Pitch Perfect) is making the movie.

Plot: A struggling writer finds a powerful, unclaimed story in an attache case and takes it for his own, gaining instant notoriety and fortune. But the good times stop rolling once the story's real author comes forward and threatens to blow the writer's secret. Review: In case that brief plot synopsis is misleading, let me first clarify: The Words is not a thriller, despite the juicy possibilities inherent in its set-up. The film, from first-time directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal,...

The Words director/writers Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal have been hired by Gold Circle to helm the upcoming supernatural thriller Break My Heart 1,000 Times.

The film is an adaptation of Daniel Waters' novel, set after a cataclysmic event that has left ghosts walking the earth. The story centers on a young girl who is terrorized by an apparition that she suspects to be a serial killer.

Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift) wrote the adapted script, with Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal touching up the screenplay before beginning to look for a cast. Gold Circle president Paul Brooks is producing with Scott Niemeyer and Brad Kessell.

Daniel Waters also wrote young adult supernatural romance novel Generation Dead. No casting details or production schedule has been released.

"The Words" directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal have been hired to direct the supernatural thriller "Break My Heart 1,000 Times" for Gold Circle says Heat Vision.

Based on the upcoming young adult novel by Daniel Waters, the story is set nine years after a cataclysmic event leaves ghosts inhabiting the ordinary world. While most are harmless, one 16-year-old girl finds herself stalked by one she believes is a serial killer.

Klugman and Sternthal will do a polish of the script by Jason Fuchs ("Ice Age: Continental Drift"). Paul Brooks will produce.

24 hours after Warner Bros. set their eyes on a young adult adventure woopty-doo, THR tell us writers-directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal — a duo releasing The Words this weekend — will be working with Gold Circle on Break My Heart 1,000 Times. Before you ask: No, they didn’t take the story from someone else.

The (as always) yet-to-be-published book, written by Daniel Waters — and, somehow, already turned into a feature screenplay by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift) — goes, in Amazon‘s words, as follows:

“Living in the aftermath of the Event means that seeing the dead is now a part of life, but Veronica wishes that the ghosts would just move on. Instead, the ghosts aren’t disappearing—they’re gaining power.

When Veronica and her friend, Kirk, decide to investigate why, they stumble upon a more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined. One of Veronica’s high...

Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, the duo behind the Sept. 7 Bradley Cooper release The Words, have been hired to direct Gold Circle's supernatural thriller Break My Heart 1,000 Times.   The Ya novel written by Daniel Waters (Generation Dead) is to be published next month by Hyperion. It was adapted by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift). Klugman and Sternthal will do a polish before going out to cast.  Photos: Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana Celebrate 'The Words' With Friends Break My Heart, described as having elements of Disturbia and The Sixth Sense, is set nine years after a

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A lot can happen while you wait for your actor friend to get famous but if you're Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, being tight with Bradley Cooper for some 20 years, including letting him sleep on your couch while he's making a name for himself in L.A., is about to pay off in a big way with the popular actor taking on a leading role in their long-dormant drama The Words.

Hitting theatres September 7, the movie follows struggling writer Rory (Cooper) who happens upon an old briefcase that contains a manuscript he passes off as his own, thrusting him into the literary spotlight and a life of happiness...if only he can deal with the weight of his lies. But that's not the whole story. Intersecting storylines converge to tell the story of Rory and his wife Dora (Zoë Saldana) and two other couples (Ben Barnes and Nora Azneder, Dennis Quaid...

The Faustian dilemma of putting ambition above all else is a familiar motif—from Goethe’s classic to the legend that bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil for success. The Words, written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, updates the story for a 21st century audience more familiar with former New York Times journalist Jayson Blair and disgraced Oprah’s Book Club author James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)....

In Need of a Thesaurus: A Tepid Debut Feature With Little to Say

For a film centered on the literary world using literary devices to unfold itself, The Words, the directorial debut of directing duo Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, sure in the hell suffers from some tepid writing. A three tiered narrative proves to be the vicious undoing of the film, an ambitious moral tale that’s already been told, several times over. While the directing/screenwriting duo managed to assemble a lucrative cast for their first outing, something must have gotten lost in translation from the page to the screen.

The Words opens with famous author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) reading portions of his latest novel, which shares the same title as this film. As he reads, the story of Rory (Bradley Cooper) and Dora Jansen (Zoe Saldana) unfolds. Rory is a struggling writer, the author of two rejected manuscripts,...

Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, the writers/directors of this Friday's The Words , have signed on to direct Break My Heart 1,000 Times . The Hollywood Reporter has the news, saying that the pair will direct the adaptation of the forthcoming Daniel Waters novel, officially described as follows: Living in the aftermath of the Event means that seeing the dead is now a part of life, but Veronica wishes that the ghosts would just move on. Instead, the ghosts aren.t disappearing . they.re gaining power. When Veronica and her friend, Kirk, decide to investigate why, they stumble upon a more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined. One of Veronica.s high school teachers is crippled by the fact that his dead daughter has never returned as a ghost, and he.s haunted by the...

This Friday's release of The Words marks the creative teaming of leading man Bradley Cooper and writers/directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, all three of whom grew up together as friends in Philadelphia. An idea that took nearly a decade to be fully realized, The Words tells the story of a passionate young writer, Rory Jansen (Cooper), whose desire to publish the great American novel leads him down a dark path. When he plagiarizes a short story, Jansen is forced to come to terms with the intangible guilt of taking another man's work. Zoe Saldana stars as Jansen's wife with Ben Barnes and Jeremy Irons playing, decades apart, the true author from whom Jansen takes the stolen tale. Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde star as well. ComingSoon.net sat down to speak with Cooper,...

This month marks one of the most exciting times of the year for a film fan, as studios are finally beginning to show off their most promising movies of the year, either in theaters or on the festival circuit. We will be bringing extensive coverage of Tiff later in the month, but with the theatrical offerings (some from the aforementioned festival and many from Sundance), filmgoers have much to look forward to. I opted not to include re-releases of Finding Nemo and Raiders of the Lost Ark in order to highlight others that you can check out below.

Matinees: Girl Model (9/5), Detropia (9/5), Toys in the Attic (9/7), Hello I Must Be Going (9/7), 10 Years (9/14), Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (9/21), 17 Girls (9/21), Head Games (9/21), Dredd (9/21), The Hole (9/28), Starbuck (9/28)

10. The Words (Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal; Sept. 7th)

Synopsis: A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must...

The Words

Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal

Written by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal

U.S.A., 2012

‘The story’ is arguably the greatest artistic achievement mankind has ever accomplished. Historically, the stories found in books have oftentimes communicated so much more and in far easier fashion than the spoken word can ever aspire to, especially a damn well written story. Books reveal far more about who humans are than humans would be willing to admit or are even capable of fathoming in an everyday basis. One should not however overlook stage plays, on radio, television and film, all of which possess their own inexplicable powers in conveying the many fascinating aspects of the human condition. Words being a commonality between all cultures the world over, is the ownership of the words per say in various art forms of the utmost importance, or does their eventual impact on their...

CBS Films has released a behind-the-scenes featurette for The Words, the upcoming drama that marks the directorial debuts of Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. This new video features star Bradley Cooper, who reveals his longtime relationship with Brian Klugman that dates back to when they were both 10 years old. Take a look at this featurette with footage from the set and interviews with Zoe Saldana and Dennis Quaid.

The Words - Gentlemen's Agreement Featurette

The Words comes to theaters September 7th, 2012 and stars Olivia Wilde, Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes, J.K. Simmons, John Hannah. The film is directed by Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal.

One of the more interesting dramas coming up in September is Directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal's multi-period piece The Words, which features Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer who uses the story of another man's life for his novel only to face unforseen consequences. While we've seen Cooper as a struggling writer before (in Limitless), The Words seems be more story-driven (no pun intended) and has a much broader and more impressive supporting cast including Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Zoe Saldana, Michael McKean and J.K. Simmons. In anticipation of the film's release on September 7th, CBS Films has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette title "A Gentleman's Agreement".

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Watch a new behind-the-scenes featurette from The Words, with star Bradley Cooper as well as co-director and co-writer Brian Klugman, who have known each other since they were 10 years-old. The CBS Films release opens on September 7th and is also helmed and written by Lee Sternthal. Also in the cast are Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Olivia Wilde, Dennis Quaid, J.K. Simmons, Ben Barnes, John Hannah, Michael McKean and Nora Arnezeder. The Words is a layered romantic drama which follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

Watch a new behind-the-scenes featurette from The Words, with star Bradley Cooper as well as co-director and co-writer Brian Klugman, who have known each other since they were 10 years-old. The CBS Films release opens on September 7th and is also helmed and written by Lee Sternthal. Also in the cast are Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Olivia Wilde, Dennis Quaid, J.K. Simmons, Ben Barnes, John Hannah, Michael McKean and Nora Arnezeder. The Words is a layered romantic drama which follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

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“The Words,” which opens nationwide on Sept. 7, 2012, also stars Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes, John Hannah, Zeljko Ivanek, Michael McKean, Nora Arnezeder, Ron Rifkin, Liz Stauber, Gianpaolo Venuta and Jeanie Hackett from writers and directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal.

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A multi-layered romantic drama with an all-star cast, The Words centers on Rory Jansen, a talented writer with a beautiful wife and mounting internal and external pressure to achieve success. What he chooses to do in order to fulfill his ambition has the potential to cost him everything, and he soon finds himself repeating the mistakes of someone in the past. Now, the worlds of two men living in different times threaten to converge as both are forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for placing ambition before love.

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Bradley Cooper smiled big at the Philadelphia premiere of The Words last night. He posed with fans on his way into the event, which was held in Bradley's hometown, and later met up with writing and directing duo Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman. Bradley made the trip to Pennsylvania following promotions for the project in NYC. He taped a segment for Today after sitting down on Live! With Kelly last week. Bradley brought his dog, Charlotte, on the morning show, chatted about rescuing her, and shared that "she's great." He'll continue press for the project, in which he stars alongside former real-life girlfriend Zoe Saldana, as the Sept. 7 release date nears. View Slideshow ›...