Twilight: Eclipse, Johnny Depp, Adam Sandler Win People's Choice Awards

The people have voted and guess what? Twilight: Eclipse won a few awards at the People's Choice Awards. Are you surprised? No? I didn't really think you would be. Those glittering vampires, hunky werewolves, and the high school student they love came away winners at the event held January 5th in Los Angeles. Twilight: Eclipse was named Favorite Movie and Favorite Drama Movie. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner earned the title of Favorite On Screen Team, and Stewart also picked up the Favorite Movie Actress trophy. Johnny Depp beat out Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner (they probably split the vote) in the Favorite Movie Actor category.

Also earning People's Choice Awards were Adam Sandler for Favorite Comedic Star, Zac Efron for Favorite Movie Star Under 25, and Jackie Chan for Favorite Action Star. A Nightmare on Elm Street was named Favorite Horror Movie while Grown Ups won as Favorite Comedy Movie. The Favorite Action Film was Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3 was proclaimed to be the Favorite Family Movie.

So there you have it. Did you vote? If not, then if your favorite wasn't the winner it's probably all your fault.

(Photo of Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner by Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Francis Lawrence May Direct Unbroken

Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) recently wrapped up work on the film adaptation of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, and Christoph Waltz, and now he's in talks to direct Unbroken for Universal Pictures. Deadline reports Universal bought the rights to Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption and the studio's interested in bringing in Crazy Heart's writer/director Scott Cooper to adapt the book.

The World War II era epic tells the amazing true story of Louis Zamperini. Random House offers this description of Hillenbrand's book:

"On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will."

(Unbroken cover © Random House)

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Writers Guild Announces 2010's Best Screenplays

Five original and five adapted screenplays have been selected by the Writers Guild of America as the best offerings of 2010, increasing their chances of being nominated for Academy Awards in the screenwriting categories. The WGA has chosen Black Swan (screenplay by Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin; story by Andres Heinz), The Fighter (screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson), Inception, (screenplay by Christopher Nolan), The Kids Are All Right (screenplay by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg), and Please Give (screenplay by Nicole Holofcener) as the five nominees in their Original Screenplay category.

The WGA's Adapted Screenplay nominees are 127 Hours (screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy), I Love You Phillip Morris (screenplay by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra), The Social Network (screenplay by Aaron Sorkin), The Town (screenplay by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard), and True Grit (screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen).

Last year's original screenplay winner, Mark Boal and The Hurt Locker, went on to take home the Oscar. However, the WGA's adapted screenplay winners, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air, lost out at the Academy Awards to Geoffrey Fletcher and Precious. This year's winners will be announced on February 5th.

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