Sentences with phrase «black list writer»

Ball Street, which hails from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, Black List writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend's Girl), and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (Preacher), takes us back to October 19, 1987 — aka Black Monday — one of the worst stock market crashes in the history of Wall Street.

With a script by Black List writers Brian and Jim Kehoe, Blockers is the directorial debut of Kay Cannon, who has plenty of experience working on female - driven comedies.

Zahler's been a Black Listed writer for a while now, but if there's any justice, this crisply shot, brilliantly designed, performed and edited debut should guarantee his future in the director's chair.

Not exact matches

Chris Salmanpour, a writer who was discovered through a partnership between The Black List, StudioCanal and The Picture Company to find new voices among EU writers, penned the adaptation of Russian Spy, which is using movies such as Marathon Man and Three Days of the Condor as touchstones.

The Black List is, according to the organization, «an online community where movie makers find scripts to make and writers to write them and screenwriters find moviemakers to make their scripts and employ them.

But with a partly Kickstarter - funded animation based on his play «Anomalisa» currently filming — Kaufman is listed as co-director — probably the film we're anticipating even more from him as writer / director is his much - touted «examination of celebrity as a mental illness» (according to star Jack Black) «Frank or Francis» a musical, which also stars Nicolas Cage, Kevin Kline and Steve Carell.

As a writer who has seen less likely things come to pass and who still has a shred of optimism in his black cynical heart, I have taken the liberty of compiling a list of lessons that Hollywood in general can and should take away from the Merc with the Mouth's solo success.

The new Transformers movie comes after producers created «Transformers writers room» with Hollywood's biggest writers including The Walking Dead creator, Lost writer Jeff Pinkner, X-Men: The Last Stand writer Zak Penn and Black List scribes Geneva Robertson - Dworetrepeat.

Two years ago, writer - director Seth W. Owen's Morgan was included on the 2014 Black List, an annual tabulation of the film industry's most popular unproduced screenplays.

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

Travis Beacham, writer of the original Black List feature script A Killing on Carnival Row, will also act as executive producer.

Among the list of confirmed panelists are Shane Black (writer / director Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3), Jack Burditt (writer 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Peter Craig (writer The Town, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Parts I and II), Chad and Carey Hayes (writers The Conjuring, The Reaping), Mark Heyman (writer Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins), Angela Kang (writer The Walking Dead), Todd Kessler (co-creator Bloodline), Simon Kinberg (writer Sherlock Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), Jenny Lumet (writer Rachel Getting Married), Kelly Marcel (writer Saving Mr. Banks, 50 Shades of Grey), Jonathan Nolan (writer Interstellar, The Dark Knight), Nicole Perlman (writer Guardians of the Galaxy), Mark Protosevich (writer Thor, I Am Legend), Issa Rae (creator The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl), Jason Reitman (writer / director Up in the Air, Thank You For Smoking), Phil Rosenthal (creator Everybody Loves Raymond), Terry Rossio (writer Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean), Liz Tigelaar (writer / producer Bates Motel, Nashville), David Wain (writer / director Wet Hot American Summer) and many others.

But it's the past six months that's really seen a flurry of activity: The writer's latest «The Outsider,» about a former WW2 prisoner - of - war who rises through the ranks of the Japanese Yakuza, placed fourth in the 2011 Black List, and is set up at Warner Bros with producer John Linson («Sons of Anarchy «-RRB-, who conceived the idea, and his father Art («Fight Club «-RRB- on board.

Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman The winners of previous Black Lists have come from a varied range of experiences, from first - time writers to industry veterans.

Not even out of his twenties yet, the writer is a Cornell and AFI grad whose first script, a compelling Western called «The West Is Dead,» about a band of outlaws set against the construction of the Hoover Dam, saw him make the Black List in 2008, and he was subsequently snapped up by CAA.

Imperative Entertainment will produce «Atlantic Wall,» a Black List script that they developed with writer Zach Dean (who also wrote «Deadfall,» a 2012 thriller with Eric Bana).

He also serves as a freelance writer and consultant on the black radical tradition and post-black art practices, writing and editing for the Smithsonian; the Vera List Center of Art and Politics at the New School; the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore.