News this week about scripts shooting now and in the future. This week features news of Louisiana film shoots, horror films, sequels, and much more.

Who has more Academy Award nominations than any other living soul? It's not Meryl Streep. It's not Steven Spielberg. But you're getting warmer. With five wins out of 45 nods, it's Mr. Spielberg's long-time composer John Williams.

I saw the legendary conductor perform his hits with the L.A. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. He opened the second half of the show with the most famous two notes in film music history.

 It will be a weekend full of pleasant surprises and resulting frustrations for film lovers this weekend. Some truly unique movies are coming out from some one-of-a-kind directors, but they might be tough to find in theaters near you. Also out this weekend, plenty of wide releases in varying genres. There’s, “The Last Exorcism”, “Takers”, and Neil Marshall’s highly stylized pursuit film, “Centurion”. Read on to discover the rest of your options at the box office this weekend.

 Screenwriter Dante Harper’s script adaptation from the 2004 Japanese novel, “All You Need Is Kill” now has a director attached. Doug Liman will direct from Harper’s script, which sticks closely to the plot of the book, in which a soldier in a futuristic war against aliens wakes up at the exact same moment in time every time he dies. Much like a higher concept, “Groundhog Day”, the film will show what happens as the solider becomes more skilled every time he is given another chance at life.

 It’s a big weekend for wide releases. There’s retro horror “Piranha 3D”, conception comedy “The Switch”, romance spoof “Vampires Suck”, children’s sequel “Nanny McPhee Returns”, and comedy “Lottery Ticket”. Despite the large number of big studio releases, there are still plenty of indie and alternative choices at box offices this weekend.

News this week of more novel and comic book adaptations, some independent and some via big studios, with news of at least one new film with an interesting title coming soon. Read on to learn about what scripts are being bought, sold, and negotiated.

"The FRAME is full of cop faces [...] The fact is they love their work, which is criminals. There is a peculiar delight in ferreting out the criminal impulse in everybody, and a matching fury in punishing it -- which is the action of repressing their own strongly developed criminal unconscious. These are tense, funny, violent, and rigidly controlled men."

Did that paragraph bore you? That's because screenplays are not supposed to be novels.

 It’s an action-packed weekend with the release of, “The Expendables” and, “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”. The memoir adaptation, “Eat, Pray, Love” starring Julia Roberts is also out. In the face of such fierce competition, there are only seven indies out this week as alternate choices, but they do offer a wide array of genres to choose from.

 This week brings interesting news of films slated to head to production this fall. You're in luck if you like sports movies, true stories, or if you've been curious about how, "The Green Lantern" will turn out. It's easy to read between the lines in this edition of Script Bits. 

 Out this week is the action comedy, “The Other Guys” as well as the 3D dance film, “Step Up 3D”. (Don’t count the second one out, the first two have been big box office earners.) But what else is out this weekend? Quite a bit actually, in the first sign of a fall film surge, you have ten alternative choices at the box office this weekend, and more if you live in a larger market. (Chicago, New York, L.A.)