Sentences with phrase «from screenwriter»

Today Ruth brings us a great pep talk from screenwriter and mystery novelist Michael Brandman, who this year was asked to take over the Jesse Stone novels of the legendary mystery writer, the late Robert B. Parker.

Karyn Lawrence presents Transitioning From Screenwriter To Author posted at Karyn Lawrence, Author & Designer, saying, «A recap of my experience transitioning from 12 years of screenwriting into self - published fiction.»

The first film as a director from screenwriter Karen Leigh Hopkins, «Miss Meadows» is often slack and undisciplined, teasing out whether the Sheriff is going to find out whether he's dating a murderer or not.

The set - up is the kind we've seen many times before, but while the hilarity of the moment initially seems indicative of just what Bayer is about to bring to the table, it eventually reveals itself to be emblematic of the film itself: familiar trappings, gussied up with a fresh script from screenwriter Lauryn Kahn.

The story from screenwriter David Koepp is very straight - forward and contains just the right amounts of twists and turns.

The film's bookended scenes were the one major change asked for by its director, Todd Haynes, from the screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, who adapted Patricia Highsmith's landmark 1952 lesbian - romance novel The Price of Salt and had tried to get it filmed for many years.

The pungent atmosphere, story and characters come from screenwriter / novelist Daniel Fuchs» superb Brooklyn novel «Low Company.»

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«Exhilarating» and a «lightning bolt of cinematic energy» are a few of the compliments piling up for the latest from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin

Although it's an amusing idea for a story from screenwriter Jim Kouf, who would later pen another notable buddy movie, Rush Hour, it's really the off - the - cuff style of Dreyfus and Estevez that makes the film fun.

Hammond got this desperate email from the screenwriter of Flight:

From screenwriter of some of the most evocative and challenging scripts like The Beach, 28 Days Later and Never Let Me Go, Alex Garland has finally made the transition from screenwriter to director.

We suspect that, once the Ramsay controversy has become trivia, there's a lot more to see from the screenwriter.

As small as this film is, it appears to be the biggest to date from screenwriter Douglas Soesbe, whose filmography stretches back twenty years but whose few credits are comprised largely of woman - led made - for - TV thrillers.

Life After Beth is the first directorial attempt from screenwriter Jeff Baena, whose prior film work is limited to a co-scripting credit for David O. Russell's cult comedy, I Heart Huckabees.

Finally, «The Author's Journey» (8 minutes) profiles novelist Daniel Wallace and offers comments from screenwriter John August.

At its best, the film from screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski and director Jaume Collet - Serra («Non-Stop,» «Run All Night») is as close to a pure action film that mainstream cinema has seen since «Mad Max: Fury Road.»

Why Him is from the screenwriter of Meet the Parents, and will offer an escape for ticket buyers resistant to the seasons highest film quality, an no doubt will find an audience as American comedy continues to barrel towards gutter humor and away from intelligence and wit.

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And what a ride...» The Weinstein Company has debuted the first trailer for the film called Gold, the latest from screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, who also directs.

It's also a move borrowed from screenwriter Oren Moverman's previous collaborative profile of a mercurial pop genius: Last decade, Moverman helped Todd Haynes establish the many faces of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.

Offering half an acerbic family dramedy (from screenwriter Diablo Cody, in «Young Adult» mode), and half a Jonathan Demme - directed concert pic that just happens to feature Meryl Streep as the frontwoman, this is a shaggy, easily distractible film that consistently defies expectations to both charming and baffling effect.

So, what that mostly leaves are the jokes, the majority of which could use some serious punching - up from a screenwriter who's a lot less inclined toward delivering the most obvious gags in any given situation; if, in a movie, you've ever seen the wrong person get zapped with a taser, a poisonous snake biting someone's naughty bits, or a rich, out - of - touch character humorously failing to relate to the working class, well, you've probably seen it executed better than it is here.

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Adults will also be laughing, but mostly because of the sharp details in the script from screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick, working from a story by Lord and Park.

Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell shine in the blood - spattered story from screenwriter Max Landis.

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Meanwhile, Burton's currently got his eye on two scripts from screenwriter Jane Goldman (X-Men: First Class, The Woman in Black): the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children adaptation and Pinocchio, a project co-written by Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller (with Robert Downey Jr. starring as Geppetto).

Synecdoche, New York is a two hour long, 2008 film from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and was his first attempt at directing films.

Soundtrack alternatives include a French dub and a pair of commentaries, the first from Woo, the second from screenwriter Dean Georgaris.

Kiwi director Taika Waititi will helm the film with recent script rewrites from screenwriter Stephany Folsom.

Loaded with self - aware wit from screenwriter Jesse Andrews (adapting the script from his own novel), director Alfonso Gomez - Rejon crafts one of the most charming and emotional films of the year.

Push is by far the biggest project to date from screenwriter David Bourla, whose sporadic past credits include scribing some independent and TV movies nobody's seen and directing three of Steve Odenkirk's half - hour «Thumb» shorts (Frankenthumb, Bat Thumb, and The Godthumb).

This astonishing debut from screenwriter and director Robert Eggers charts a Puritan family's descent into madness, meting out terror by creating a real sense of atmosphere and dread.

This lapse brings to mind that famous quote from screenwriter William Goldman: «Nobody knows anything.»

There are three commentary tracks: one from film professor and writer Robert Kolker and another from screenwriter Paul Schrader recorded for the 2007 Collector's Edition DVD, and the original 1986 commentary by Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader (recorded separately) for the (long out of print) Criterion laserdisc release.

Advertisements trumpet that 27 Dresses comes from the screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada, which is accurate but only half the story.

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The inspired bookend structure of the film version came not from screenwriter Nagy but from director Haynes.

Tony Gilroy — «Michael Clayton» As this list will show as it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rarer.

Rockwell and Kendrick star in Mr. Right, the latest movie from screenwriter and generally controversial person Max Landis.

Additionally, it addresses these conventions from the screenwriter's perspective.

The casting is first rate, with the exception of Emma Stone, so perhaps the languid feeling the audience leaves with is from screenwriter Will Beall.

, we hear from the screenwriter.

What's intriguing is that unlike their previous collaborations The Foot Fist Way, HBO's Eastbound & Down, and Observe & Report, the idea and pitch for L.A.P.I. originates outside the crew's creative circle, from screenwriter team Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan.

The Meyerowitzes all speak with the wit and observational detail that one might expect from the screenwriter of such whip - smart comedies as Mistress America and Kicking and Screaming.

Accepted was the first feature film from screenwriter - turned - director Steve Pink.

A national health care crisis in the United States yields this tense drama from screenwriter James Kearns and director Nick Cassavetes, who experienced a real - life dilemma with his daughter's congenital heart disease that mirrors the one in this film.

From screenwriter Chris Terrio's self - consciously snappy dialogue to the amped - up thriller climax, actor - director Ben Affleck's third feature succeeds as a savvy, facile crowd - pleaser by hewing closely to the same Hollywood conventions that it mildly mocks.

Remarkably, it comes from a screenwriter who had never had a feature film produced and a director who had never made one in English.