In fact-based films, how much fiction is OK?
90 days ago
Mark Boal, the movie's screenwriter, said in a recent interview that screenwriters have a double responsibility: to the material and to the audience.
Little audience for 'Zero Dark Thirty' in Pakistan
90 days ago
Screenwriter Mark Boal visited Pakistan to do research, but the movie scenes were not shot here.
'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' win at Writers Guild
92 days ago
Mark Boal won the prize for original screenplay for "Zero Dark Thirty," director Kathryn Bigelow's chronicle of the CIA's manhunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Underdog 'Argo' continues on charmed Oscar path
109 days ago
Based on Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal's painstaking research, "Zero Dark Thirty" has prompted a savage debate over its depictions of interrogations, with critics saying the film misleads...
Will torture questions hurt `ZDT's Oscar chances?
124 days ago
"Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, what they've done with this film is end it with an unanswered question: 'Where do you want to go?
Bin Laden film leak was referred to Justice; leaker top Obama official
137 days ago
The documents included emails and the transcript of the conversation that Vickers had with Bigelow and Boal in which Vickers disclosed the name of the U.S. Special Operations Command planner.
Senators: Did CIA tell 'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers torture led to bin Laden? |...
137 days ago
The Pentagon inspector general has been investigating whether a senior Defense Department official, Michael Vickers, provided restricted information to Bigelow and Boal.
Movie review: 'Zero Dark Thirty'
137 days ago
As written by Mark Boal and envisioned by Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty is no simple, action-hero victory dance around bin Laden's body.
'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers get to heart of action
138 days ago
"People will come away from the film with all sorts of reactions, and that's OK," says Boal, who came to screenwriting with a background in investigative journalism.
Senators' criticism shadows 'Zero Dark Thirty'
144 days ago
Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have previously said that their movie "shows that no single method was necessarily responsible for solving the manhunt, nor can any single scene taken in...
