Sentences with phrase «as a screenwriter on»

With Paul Greengrass currently taking a break from the series, helming duties for Legacy have fallen the way of Tony Gilroy, who worked as a screenwriter on the previous Bourne films, and made his directorial debut with the excellent Michael Clayton in 2007.

The committed star pulls off the same magic trick to even more impressive effect than usual with Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's directorial debut after toiling away as a screenwriter on less pedigreed fare like Real Steel and Two for the Money as well as big brother Tony's most recent Bourne franchise effort.

This charming 2011 comedy from Woody Allen stars Owen Wilson as a screenwriter on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family who suddenly discovers he can time travel to the 1920s at midnight.

The film's director, J.J. Abrams, was recently confirmed as a screenwriter on the project, in addition to Lawrence Kasdan.

Not exact matches

Having spent decades working as a screenwriter in the studio system — credited on recognizable titles like «Hope Floats,» «Stepmom,» and «Kate & Leopold» — in the era where studios are through making romance movies, Rogers has reinvented himself thanks to the «I, Tonya» script.

According to The Independent, Redmayne is the Harry Potter author and Beasts screenwriter's choice to play Newt Scamander in a new franchise — based on a fictional Hogwarts textbook — that is described as «neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.»

Imagine that, and you'll know how I felt after reading Ron Fimrite's story on The Natural (A Star with Real Clout, May 7), in which you portray Roger Towne as the sole screenwriter.

Bill is a comedian and actor and probably best known for his work on SNL (Saturday Night Live), while Maggie is a behind the scenes girl as a director and screenwriter.

At a panel discussion at GWU's School of New Media and Public Affairs on Monday, Rospars described in particular the vital role of online video content, whose power the campaign recognized from the beginning — very early in the race, Obama's team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasive tool.

SCREENWRITER: You might also say that scientists love acting like starlets on television news and documentaries, blogging, and self - promoting as much as anyone in movies.

All three films in the American Pie series were penned by screenwriter Adam Herz and produced by Paul and Chris Weitz — who also served as directors on the original — but they have all gone through different directors; the J B Rogers - directed American Pie 2 and now American Wedding helmed by Jesse Dylan (How High).

There's exceedingly little within The Kingdom that's been designed to capture (and hold) the viewer's interest, as director Peter Berg and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan consistently place the emphasis on the agents» increasingly banal investigation.

British TV veteran Barker and his screenwriter (novice Howard Himmelstein) set Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan) among Jazz Age expatriates cold - chillin» on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope, 1930s fashions and Mediterranean countryside notwithstanding.

It's worth noting, however, that the movie does lose some steam as it takes an expectedly dramatic turn towards the end, as, despite what screenwriter Bert V. Royal clearly believes, the narrative simply isn't deep enough to withstand the increasingly pervasive emphasis on sentimental elements (and all the John Hughes references aren't really helping, either).

Screenwriters William Nicholson and Michael Hirst care little about re-creating political history as it was, but relish shooting for the Barbie doll moments in the royal court and the occasional cloak - and - dagger thriller moment (the soon to be beheaded scheming Catholic Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots (Samantha Morton), passing notes from her prison cell to approve the assassination attempt on cousin Elizabeth), and in keeping all the scenes with the athletic looking Raleigh intentionally playful and sexually inviting.

For the first half hour or so, writer / director David Veloz (one of the screenwriters credited on Natural Born Killers) strains unsuccessfully to impress us with fashionable non-continuity edits and some clipped dialogue that aspires to be taken as sardonic humor.

There's little doubt that Creation opens with a fair amount of promise, as screenwriter John Collee initially focuses on Darwin's ongoing anguish over his scientific endeavors - with the vehemence of his colleagues (ie one tells him that he has effectively «killed god») causing a considerable amount of friction within his home life.

Director Jon Amiel and screenwriter John Collee have gone out of their way not to antagonise either side of the science / religion debate, instead offering a distinctive take on evolutionary theory as refracted through Darwin's relations with his pious wife (a sour - faced Jennifer Connelly, offering an occasionally hilarious, literal approximation of the Queen's English) and increasingly curious brood.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

At other times, however, Mendes and screenwriters John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth seem to feel the need to include more classic Bond aspects, such as hulking henchman Hinx (Dave Bautista, «Guardians of the Galaxy»), an elaborate base for Oberhauser complete with private army, and an over-reliance on gadgetry.

Tim Lucas is a critic, screenwriter, and novelist, as well as the editor and copublisher of the award - winning Video Watchdog, a bimonthly consumer guide to cult and genre cinema on DVD.

Director Brett Ratner (Tower Heist) and screenwriters Ryan Condal (short Plurality) and Evan Spiliotopoulos (Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure) must be thankful that their film, as based on Steve Moore's graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars, found such a fitting on - screen manifestation.

As director Zack Snyder and screenwriter David S. Goyer continue to fine tune the script and prep for an early 2014 shoot on Batman vs. Superman, various departments are starting to make arrangements for filming to begin.

Inspired by an iconic photograph of Nixon shaking Presley's hand and appointing him as an honorary federal drug - enforcement agent, the screenwriter spun the meeting into a full - on screwball comedy.

It's difficult not to imagine the filmmakers attempting to extinguish any residue from the gossipy revelation that actor Stephen Boyd and screenwriter Gore Vidal gave the Ben - Hur / Messala friendship a gay subtext in William Wyler's Oscar - hoarding film, built as it was on loud silences and anguished - face acting.

A dramatic comedy from Naomi Foner (mother of Maggie Gyllenhaal and screenwriter of «Running on Empty»), «Girls» will star Olsen and Dakota Fanning as teenagers the summer after they graduate from high school.

A casting call for «Iron Man 3,» which will get underway this summer, written by fast - rising screenwriter Drew Pearce and directed by «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» helmer Shane Black, has been obtained via Feature Film Casting (via Latino Review), and it reveals that Johansson will be back on duty as the flexible Natasha Romanoff in the new film.

With it previously having looked as if they'd completed their work on the Bond series after five movies, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are apparently back on board to take a pass at John Logan's screenplay.

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

Nolfi and screenwriters Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele (both writers on «Pawn Sacrifice») seek to tap into the mystique of the highly heralded martial arts match - up between the two explosive combatants, but the film feels inexplicably stiff as it fails to totally capture the spirit of the confrontation between the cocky but charismatic Lee and cynical provocateur Wong.

He's also a director who has flirted with mainstream success in the past, so it may come as no surprise to learn that Refn is reported to be teaming up with screenwriters Neil Purvis and Robert Wade — co-writers of five James Bond outings including Skyfall and Spectre — on an as - yet untitled Asian - set action thriller.

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

As a screenwriter with limited experience, his specialty is the crime - thriller genre: Adams collaborated on Heist (2015), starring Robert De Niro, and on Extraction (2015), starring Bruce Willis.

On the contrary: in adapting André Aciman's 2007 novel, Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory have produced a film that simultaneously analyzes and dramatizes issues of sexuality, religious identity, and, once again, privilege — with enough well - read bourgeois lazing about in the sun to give Michael Haneke hives — and yet without straining against its clearly marked narrative boundaries as a coming - of - age romance, or exploding its form as an accessible, fundamentally pleasing upper - middlebrow entertainment.

Plot-wise, «Ragnarok» is a bit all over the place both literally and figuratively — it moves back and forth between Earth, Asgard and the cosmos, as if Waititi and screenwriters Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost are trying on new contexts for the character.

Danny Morgan, who also serves as the films screenwriter, is brilliant as the down on his luck Jim, who just can't seem to catch a break.

Forster and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof have taken what used to be a character - driven zombie story, ripped out its brain and heart, and left it as nothing but a stumbling corpse kept alive on life support with a blockbuster budget.

Next she became a screenwriter for MGM, collaborating on the scripts of such films as Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) and Summer Holiday (1948).

True, Letts (credited as screenwriter) and director John Wells (The Company Men) have gone to pointless lengths to «open up» the action, adding trips to town and lingering on shots of dusty Oklahoma roads.

Beatriz at Dinner (Director: Miguel Arteta, Screenwriter: Mike White)-- Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner.

Because when you land a deal like Tropper — coming on board as the screenwriter and executive producer, while working with a collaborative director like Shawn Levy — it'd be foolish to question such a lucrative opportunity.

To help her work on the pilot, Notaro reached out to Diablo Cody, as she was a huge fan of the screenwriter's work («My wife and I have seen Young Adult about a dozen times» she says).

Instead, director Jason Reitman and his Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody have devised a blistering study of sadness as some people's inevitable lot, however much it comes laced with the bracing black comedy that keeps Young Adult ever biliously on the boil.

Star Mel Gibson (Signs, What Women Want), who had picked Helgeland to direct the film based on his script to begin with, brought in a new, unnamed director (subsequently leaked as production designer John Myhre) and screenwriter (Terry Hayes) to make the changes the studio wanted.

Norwegian director Eric Poppe (who has drawn on his own experiences as a war photographer) and his screenwriter Harald Rosenløw Eeg chart Rebecca's attempt to respond to her family's emotional needs.

Indeed, seeing how director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) is the one calling the shots on Terminator: Genesis - drawing from a script written by screenwriter / producer Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) and writer / director Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000, Drive Angry)- it's difficult to gauge just how this film is shaping up, as far as its artistic quality goes.

Midnight Special (North American Premiere) Director / Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols A father goes on the run to protect his young son and uncover the truth behind the boy's special powers in the sci - fi thriller Midnight Special, a film as supernatural as it is intimately human.

Michael Lesslie who worked with Kurzel on Macbeth is listed as a screenwriter but he is probably just doing last minute rewrites.

Ex Machina helmer Alex Garland also carries clout with cinephiles thanks to screenwriter credits on such Danny Boyle faves as The Beach (he penned the novel), zombie pic 28 Days Later and Sunshine.

Chris Butler is a former storyboard artist on Coraline and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride, and ParaNorman ushers in his debut as a director and screenwriter.