The redemption rates of Coupons.com is 18% compared to 0.6% for newspapers, Boal says.
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Judge Boal also ordered a hearing to consider custody for the couple's two children.
Mr. Boal describes the movie's final scene to illustrate the blending of fact and imagination.
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Those scenes were interspersed to "bring home the real stakes" for the covert operatives, says Mr. Boal.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
The Senate investigators haven't contacted Mr. Boal or Ms. Bigelow, but last month Mr. Boal retained Jeffrey H.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Also because Coupons.com is online, it offers advertisers more flexibility, rather than locking them into print schedules, Boal says.
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Boal, who began his career as a reporter for Playboy and Rolling Stone, interviewed some of the principals involved.
The film is based on screenwriter Mark Boal's first-hand experiences gathered whilst embedded with a bomb unit in Iraq.
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"They're just investigating the origins of a work of art, " says Mr. Boal.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Jessica Chastain will win the Oscar for Best Actress, and Mark Boal will probably win for Best Original Screenplay.
"The advent of digital savings tools coupled with a challenging economy has taken couponing mainstream, " said Steven Boal, CEO of Coupons.com.
"She really loves and cares about her students, " said Seattle's Boal.
"I didn't support them, I didn't say I think they were moral, I have no idea if they were effective or not, " says Mr. Boal.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
On Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the Committee had begun an examination of records charting contacts between intelligence officials and Bigelow and Boal.
Maya, based on a real agent, whom Bigelow and Boal have elevated out of agency anonymity, is an obsessed woman, with no personal life or interests.
It was also claimed Boal, who previously worked with Bigelow on Oscar-winning drama The Hurt Locker, had been granted access to classified information, an allegation he denied.
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Best Original Screenplay nominees are: Flight (John Gatins), Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal), Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino), Amour (Michael Haneke), and Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola).
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Mr. Boal worked his sources at the CIA and elsewhere.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
No book was available to option and adapt, so Mr. Boal had to dig for real-life details that would dramatize one of the most important events of the decade.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Thursday the Academy announced it would allow all four named producers on The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shaprio) to accept should the film win.
As in the film, Maya's CIA colleague in Khost, Afghanistan, did bake a birthday cake for a top al Qaeda informant who was coming into their base, says Mr. Boal.
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Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal - who won Oscars in 2010 for The Hurt Locker - said last month the film depicted "a variety of controversial practices and intelligence methods".
With such a commitment from actors, the company can afford to run weekly classes in, say, Shakespearian language, or import Augusto Boal, a South American guru, for a fortnights workshop.
Coupons.com has grown from processing 1% of the total coupon redemptions in the U.S. three years ago to 10% of all all U.S. coupons now, says Steven Boal, CEO of Coupons.com.
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According to Mr. Boal, the real Ammar was one of the captured al Qaeda fighters who helped lead the U.S. to the courier al-Kuwaiti, which in the film happens over a quiet meal.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Mark Boal: The Art and Politics of 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Jason Taft, 41, of Greenfields Farm, Stoke-on-Trent, Thomas Richard Lesley, 55, and his son Thomas Lesley, 34, both from Belfast, and Andrew Boal, 32, from Ballygowan, Newtonards, County Down, were remanded in custody.
Boal will get another deserved screenwriting nomination, too.
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Screenwriter Mark Boal also deserves praise for not overtelling his story, for trusting that the power of its meaning is deeper and depends on audiences to see the events and understand the narrative instinctively.
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Meantime, Senator Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, has ordered an investigation into whether the CIA provided Ms. Bigelow and her screenwriter Mark Boal with "inappropriate" access to the agency during the making of the film.
In a statement, film studio Sony and Annapurna Pictures said Mr Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow had been in close contact with the families of victims since releasing the film, which was privately screened for many of them.
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