Tag: Shotgun

  • Film News Roundup: ‘Rogue One’ Screenwriter Tony Gilroy Wins Austin Festival Award

    Film News Roundup: ‘Rogue One’ Screenwriter Tony Gilroy Wins Austin Festival Award

    In today’s film news roundup, Dan Gilroy is honored by the Austin Film Festival, CBS Films moves forward on its ship cruise comedy, and Good Deed buys SXSW title “Shotgun.”HonorThe Austin Film Festival has named screenwriter Tony Gilroy as the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Screenwriter Award.Previous honorees of this award have included Lawrence Kasdan,…

  • SXSW Film Review: ‘Shotgun’

    SXSW Film Review: ‘Shotgun’

    Cancer is contagious in Hannah Marks and Joey Power’s intelligent romance “Shotgun.” Not literally, of course. Only 23-year-old Elliot (Jeremy Allen White) is at risk of dying from the tumor on his pelvic bone. But his new girlfriend Mia (Maika Monroe), who luckily or unluckily had her first date with Elliot days after his diagnosis,…