Step Up Women’s Network will honor Emmy-nominated actress Christina Hendricks, critically-acclaimed director and writer Catherine Hardwicke, and corporate honoree Dermalogica at its eighth annual Inspiration Awards event at the Beverly Hilton on June 10. The fundraising luncheon celebrates professional and philanthropic accomplishment, honoring influencers, executives and Step Up members and teens alike.

“We’re excited to recognize Christina, Catherine, and our longtime partner Dermalogica, whose professional and philanthropic achievements have noticeably connected and advanced women and girls,” Step Up CEO Jenni Luke said. “The Inspiration Awards showcases our critical work of bridging communities of professional women and underserved teen girls for mentorship. Step Up mentorship enables everyone to see the full potential in each other, and this event truly invigorates the mentor relationships.”

Actress/writer/producer Nikki Reed and Step Up Women’s Network Founder Kaye Popofsky Kramer will serve as Inspiration Award presenters.

The event’s host committee includes Aisha Tyler, Ali Brown, Aimee Garcia, Andrea Bowen, Ashley Jones, Carri McClure, Elisabeth Rohm, Emily Della Maggiora, Emily Herakovich, Garcelle Beauvais, Gena Schaublin, Jamil Walker Smith, Jane Buckingham, Jennifer Norman, Kaye Popofsky Kramer, Kelly Rutherford, Kristin Luck, Lacey Chabert, Lesley Ann Warren, Letta Nagel, Lindy Huang Werges, Lisa Gild, Lisa Sigell, Liz Dennery Sanders, Melissa George, Ming-Na, Nancy Utley, Rachel Williams, Sarah Jane Morris, Shari Wenker, Stacy Arnell, Trina Turk and Vanessa Minnillo.

The red carpet afternoon includes a pre-event networking reception featuring style lounges by Trina Turk, Dermalogica, Gilt City and Angeleno magazine. Other sponsors include Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; Hard Candy; Bingham McCutchen LLP; CBS; City National Bank; comScore; Creative Artists Agency; Felice Keller Productions; Lionsgate; MILLENNIUM CORPORATE SOLUTIONS; OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network; Raytheon; U.S. Bank; Accenture; Action Learning Systems, Inc.; California Community Foundation; Disney/ABC Television Group; KPMG LLP; Marcus & Jane Buckingham; Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Rogers & Cowan; SheBrand; U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management; United Talent Agency; Warner Bros. Entertainment; Yahoo!; and media partners W and Angeleno magazine.

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From undead vampires to engineered teenagers: Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg has been tapped by Paramount Pictures to adapt and produce a feature film version of the 1983 sci-fi young adult novel Earthseed by Pamela Sargent. The story follows a group of teenagers created from genetic material and raised by a spacecraft seeking a new planet to repopulate humanity. As it happens, two sequels to the book were recently published: Farseed, in 2007, and Seed Seeker, in 2010. “Earthseed is an incredibly compelling world, and I’m excited to dive into it,” Rosenberg said in a statement. “The film’s premise easily lends itself to an exciting franchise with plenty of room for invention and humor.”

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After taking on vampires in Summit’s Twilight Saga, writer Melissa Rosenberg is tackling a different kind of immortal being: Scottish highlanders.

The scribe is in negotiations to come on board to work on the studio’s remake of Highlander. Neal Moritz is producing the project, which offers an update on the 1986 movie starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery and Clancy Brown. Justin Lin (Fast Five) is attached to direct. Peter Davis is also producing.

The original story centered on a Scottish swordsman, who discovers he is part of a secret race of near-immortal beings and faces off against an unstoppable barbarian who covets the power gained from there being only one of their kind left.

Summit acquired remake rights to Highlander from Panzer/Davis Productions, producer of the original film, in 2008. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway wrote the initial draft while Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Sellek Wibberley also worked on the script.

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Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter for all five Twilight films, has been nominated (along with her co-workers on the series) for the 2011 Writers Guild Awards for her work on the hit Showtime series Dexter.

The awards show takes place on February 5th in New York and Los Angeles.

Rosenberg has worked on Dexter in a number of capacities: as executive producer, writer for at least eleven episodes, consulting producer, and co-executive producer.

Read more at: Twilight Examiner

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Melissa Rosenberg, who’s adapted Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” books for the screen, added “Fantasia,” and Matt Reeves, the director of “Let Me In” and “Cloverfield,” admitted that he always had to close his eyes during the “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride. But the subject at hand wasn’t forest creatures or animatronic drunks. Noël Carroll, a CUNY professor and author of “The Philosophy of Horror,” and moderator and staff writer Joan Acocella joined this group to discuss sex, gore, and the characters on which they usually intersect these days: vampires.

These vampires are lost souls, Carroll said, the type that women long to make their “projects.” The sex, King pointed out, is invariably adolescent—“they just want to bite the girl’s neck”—and Rosenberg elaborated: the self-loathing Edward from “Twilight” is “actually very safe, because of his own morality.” King asked if there was a parallel between maintaining abstinence and not wanting to suck her blood? Rosenberg didn’t miss a beat: “Absolutely.”

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