Sentences with phrase «black wrote screenplays»

When Shane Black wrote the screenplay for 1996's The Long Kiss Goodnight, he broke his own record as the highest paid screenwriter in Hollywood.

Not exact matches

Written by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote the play upon which the film is based, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

Michael Mitnick wrote the script, which was voted to the 2011 Black List of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays.

All hail Shane Black, the king of the fast - quipping buddy comedy - thriller, and a man who seems incapable of writing a screenplay without somehow involving Christmas.

He wrote the script after graduating from college and it made The Black List (a list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year) back in 2013, but years went by before he found funding for the film.

The Black List screenplay, written by David Scarpa, centers on the 1973 kidnapping in Italy of J. Paul Getty III — the rebellious teenage grandson of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, who was reluctant to pay the $ 17 million ransom demanded by the kidnappers.

«On The Waterfront» also won Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), Black - and - White Art Direction - Set Decoration, (Richard Day), Black - and - White Cinematography (Boris Kaufman), Directing (Elia Kazan), Film Editing (Gene Milford), and Writing — Story and Screenplay (Budd Schulberg).

His friend Will Reiser wrote a script about his own experiences as a cancer survivor called I'm With Cancer that made the Black List for Best Unproduced Screenplays back in 2008, but no studios wanted to touch it with a ten foot pole.

Well, Jesse Andrews (author of novel and Black Listed script «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl») has signed on to write the screenplay.

«Cut ahead to 2001,» Black said to Vanity Fair, sounding like he's writing the screenplay version of his life, «when I finished a script for something called «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» and all of a sudden not only is it not «Read in the office while we run a clock on you,» it was «I submit «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» and maybe in a week or two they get back to me.»

As first reported by TheWrap, Joe Robert Cole will write «Black Panther,» and while it's unclear whether Coogler will have an official screenplay credit, he'll likely work with Cole and Marvel executives to hone one cohesive vision for the film, which is an important entry in the Marvel Comic Universe.

Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...

Thompson's recent film credits include Pixar's Brave, Men in Black 3; and both Nanny McPhee and its sequel, Nanny McPhee Returns, for which she wrote the screenplays and starred in the title role.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

His script for Get Out, a movie he said he stopped writing about 20 times because he thought it «wasn't going to work,» won the award for Best Original Screenplay, making Peele the first black filmmaker to receive that honor.

Directed by Nic Mathieu from a screenplay written by Ian Fried, John Gatins, and George Nolfi, the film is described as «Ghostbusters meets Black Hawk Down.»

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.

Black directs from an original screenplay he wrote with Anthony Bagarozzi.

Featuring a creepy and eerie tone, at least what we can tell from the screenplay written years ago, the casting of Scarlett Johansson as the lead — a black widow - like alien who lures prey in with her sexual charms — seems like an inspired choice.

But the crew behind «Stoker» is what makes all the difference here: «Prison Break» actor Wentworth Miller (under a pseudonym) wrote the screenplay, which made the Black List in 2010, while director Park Chan - wook («Oldboy,» «Thirst») makes his English - language debut with the help of producers Ridley and Tony Scott.

Said Black: «If Vincent Van Gogh wrote screenplays, he would be the Charlie Kaufman of screenplays.»

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Based on internationally successful tabletop miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000 from Games Workshop (~ $ 200 million revenue 2010), the screenplay for Ultramarines has been written by one of their best - selling Games Workshop Black Library authors Dan Abnett, who also writes for 2000AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Black, who nabbed his Academy Award in 2009 for original screenplay and wrote the LGBTQ rights miniseries «When We Rise,» premiering tonight on ABC, responded Monday in a statement exclusively to The Times:

Todd Solondz's unforgettable black comedy benefits from a subversively brilliant screenplay and an ensemble who relished the outrageous opportunities that piece of writing held.

SCREEN WINNERS ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight PSCREENPLAY Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight PSCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight PScreenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures...

Working with a screenplay by playwright August Wilson («Fences» is the third of ten plays written by Mr. Wilson which explore the life of Black America in the century of the 1900s.)

The screenplay by Mark Mallouk and Jez Butterworth (adapted from the book Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal, which was written by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill) does falter though when it tries to do too much.

He helped break the black list in 1960, by hiring Dalton Trumbo, the long black - listed scriptwriter who used aliases on his»50s screenplays, to write «Exodus» (1960) under his real name.

Two - time Black Reel Awards winner Ryan Coogler will direct «Black Panther» from an adapted screenplay written by himself and Joe Robert Cole, based on characters by Hugo Awards nominees Jack Kirby and Stan Lee.

Michael Mitnick wrote the script for the project, which was pulled out of the 2011 Black List of Hollywood's best unproduced screenplays.

With novelist Richard Price writing the screenplay and actors like Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Gary Oldham (aka Sirius Black), this is one book - to - film adaptation that I have high hopes for.

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