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Is Roger Avary Tweeting from Jail?

1 November 2009 1:48 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

Oscar winning writer/director Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe) may be Tweeting about his experiences in jail.

Avary started his one year of incarceration on October 25 after pleading guilty to felony manslaughter.  The charges stemmed from a January 2008 DUI crash that resulted in the death of a passenger.  He’s reportedly serving time through the work furlough program, which allows him to leave the jail, go to work, and return to his cell by a night curfew.

Four days later came a post on his Twitter account possibly critiquing the architecture of his Ventura County Jail.  “The building is an imposing example of the Brutalist architectural movement. The windows are designed so as to not let too much light in.”

This is followed up the next day by this Tweet, “The channels on the Rec Room television cannot be changed, and it’s inexplicably always tuned to Fox.” Obligatory »

- Jeff Leins

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Screenwriter Avary Sentenced

1 October 2009 1:16 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary has been sentenced to a year in jail related to a fatal crash.

Avary, who won the 1995 Academy Award for writing Pulp Fiction with Quentin Tarantino, plead guilty in August to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. The crash occurred in 2008, when he was driving home from a restaurant and his Mercedes collided with a telephone poll.

Passenger Andreas Zini was killed in the crash, and Avary's wife was ejected from the vehicle. She was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. According to authorities, Avary's car was traveling at more than 100 mph when it crashed into the pole.

This past Tuesday, Avary was sentenced to one year in jail, as well as five years of probation by Ventura County Superior Court Judge Edward Brodie, Variety reports. It was revealed in court that the writer had separately settled a civil action filed by Mr. Zini's family for $4.1M.

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Co-Writer of Pulp Fiction Sentenced to Jail

30 September 2009 2:37 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction and writer/director of Killing Zoe, has been sentenced to one year of jail time for his involvement in the death of his friend Andreas Zini in a 2008 car accident. This past August, Avary pleaded guilty to drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter — the writer crashed his car into a telephone pole at over 100 miles per hour, also injuring his wife in the process.

Jail time, along with a five-year probation, will seriously derail the several projects Avary is currently involved with. Earlier this month, Roger signed on to write the script for a sequel to Silent Hill, while also preparing for his film adaptation of the videogame Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Without a doubt, this is unfortunate news for these franchises, but it’s indicative of a larger problem with Hollywood today: Avary, a relatively unknown celebrity in the grand scheme of things, has »

- John Cooper

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A Petition to the State of California in Support of Roger Avary

30 September 2009 1:09 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

State of California, I am writing this on behalf of the entire filmmaking and artistic community worldwide. We have just learned the astonishing news of the sentencing of Roger Avary, Oscar-winning co-writer of Pulp Fiction and director of Killing Zoe, to one full year in prison resulting from his conviction on the charge of gross vehicular manslaughter. Filmmakers, intellectuals, Gen Xers, movie geeks, and meth addicts from across the country and around the world are dismayed by this turn of events and you must know that it cannot stand. True, Mr. Avary pleaded guilty last August to a crash that killed a passenger in his Mercedes-Benz and, true, he was driving over a hundred miles an hour and was legally intoxicated at the time. But all of this is of little consequence when balanced against one irrefutable fact: He helped write... »

- Chez Pazienza

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Roger Avary Gets a Year in Jail for Manslaughter

30 September 2009 10:12 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Hey, who says big name Hollywood types always get off easy? Oscar-winning writer/director Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction) has been sentenced to a year in prison this week following his involvement in a 2008 car crash that resulted in the death of a passenger. He was driving home in Southern California at night when he lost control of the car and crashed into a telephone pole at over 100 mph. His wife was ejected from the car and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, while his friend Andreas Zini was killed. Avary also received five years probation after pleading guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. Granted, Avary is from from a "big name" in Hollywood, and apparently the maximum sentence was 12 years, but either way, he is definitely going to do some hard time. Avary's most recent screenwriting credit was for Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf, which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. »

- Sean

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Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary sentenced for DUI

30 September 2009 7:48 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »

Academy Award-winning Pulp Fiction co-screenwriter Roger Avary has been sentenced to a year in jail for driving while intoxicated and gross vehicular manslaughter. He will also have to perform five years of probation upon his release.

Avary was behind the wheel January 14, 2008 when the Mercedes he was driving crashed into a telephone pole in Ojai, CA. Avary was ejected from the vehicle and sustained injuries, as did Avary's wife Gretchen, but the crash proved to be fatal for their second passenger. The police investigation that followed found that the vehicle had been traveling in excess of 100 mph.

The screenwriter of Beowulf (with Neil Gaiman), Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction and Silent Hill, Avary has recently closed a deal to write the screenplay for Silent Hill 2 and had also committed to writing a script based on the video game Return to Castle Wolfenstein. The judge overseeing the case said that »

- Patrick Sauriol

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Avary Goes Back To Silent Hill

15 September 2009 11:57 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Roger Avary, co-author of Pulp Fiction, director of Killing Zoe, friend of Neil Gaiman, is preparing a sequel to the 2006 Silent Hill videogame adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His producer chum Samuel Hadida is also back for the new ride.Avary and Hadida, through Davis Films, plan to shoot the film after Resident Evil: Afterlife which is now in preparation. Clearly survival horror franchises are the order of the day at Davis, although it's interesting that the two series should have the same home given their markedly different tones.The original Silent Hill couldn't be called much of a success, and its muddled screenplay (at least as it reached the screen) was one of its weakest links, making Avary's continued involvement something of a worry. It used aspects from the first three games, and plot-wise, games 5 and 6 aren't that different to the rest,  so it's unclear how much »

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Sdcc '09: Saturday Horror

19 July 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

The 2009 Edition of Comic-Con gets underway this week at the San Diego Convention Center, promising the biggest pop-culture event of the year.

Fangoria will be there reporting on the action live from the show floor, with constant updates on all the genre panels, announcements, and more - bringing all the latest Sdcc '09 Horror News direct to you right here on Fangoria.com

For those of you planning to attend the 100% Sold-out show, here's a look at what to expect for genre programming on Saturday, July 25th, 2009.

10:00-11:00 Idw: Angel on the Rise— With L.A. back from Hell, what's next for Idw's Angel comics? Fans of the show and the tall, dark, and brooding fangster can find out who's still fighting, who's been eaten, and what sinister forces are still to come during this panel featuring Juliet Landau (Angel writer/actress), Brian Lynch (Angel: After the Fall »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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San Diego Comic Con 2009 - Saturday Schedule

11 July 2009 7:16 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

While it may seem as if a lot of the "big name" genre projects showing off their wares at 2009's San Diego Comic-Con have favored the front end of the show's run, the last two days are pretty chock full of panels and screenings as well. Here's a rundown of Saturday's schedule for those of you sniffing out the horror goods.

Saturday, July 25

10:00-11:00 - Idw: Angel on the Rise — With L.A. back from Hell, what's next for Idw's Angel comics? Fans of the show and the tall, dark, and brooding fangster can find out who's still fighting, who's been eaten, and what sinister forces are still to come during this panel featuring Juliet Landau (Angel writer/actress), Brian Lynch (Angel: After the Fall), Peter David (Fallen Angel), plus the reveal of the all-new monthly Angelwriter and more! Room 7Ab

10:15-11:15 - Eastwick Pilot Screening and »

- The Woman In Black

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San Diego Comic-Con Schedule: Saturday, July 25

11 July 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

The following information focuses on the 2009 Comic-Con schedule that is set for Saturday, July 25th. It’s not a full schedule - it only highlights TV and movie related panels and events.

Highlights for Saturday include Lost, Fringe, a screening of the pilot episode of ABC’s V, a first look at Heroes: Redemption, 2012 and a little film coming out next year you may have heard of: Iron Man 2.

 

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Marvel: “Hero Up” with The Super Hero Squad Show!— Marvel’s first action-comedy series is a manic, mind-blowing, all-ages romp through the Marvel Universe. Coming to Cartoon Network in September, the animated show is loaded with superstar voice talent. Several of the actors will preview their characters in a live performance: Tom Kenny (Spongebob) as Iron Man and Modok, Charlie Adler (Cow and Chicken, Transformers features) as Dr. Doom, Steve Blum (Wolverine and the X-Men) as Wolverine, »

- Vic Holtreman

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