Sentences with phrase «as my screenwriter friends»

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Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).

Inspired by a popular video game that was released in 1986, screenwriters Ryan Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Sztykiel assemble a scenario that enables Dwayne Johnson to be heroic as he endeavors to save his best friend George, with the help of Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), who formerly worked at the evil company run by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), and Harvey Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a mercenary who begins working for the evil company and then is tempted to the side of the good guys.

The comedy from the In Bruges writer and director reunites him with actor Colin Farrell as a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his two oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

Cowritten by Brooks and Monica Johnson, this satire of Hollywood is embellished with sharp, frequently hilarious observation of its ritual humiliations and shallow social and professional interactions, with notable contributions from Jeff Bridges as a self - absorbed Oscar - winning screenwriter friend, Steven Wright as Stan Spielberg («I'm Steven's cousin»), and Martin Scorsese in a self - parodying cameo.

Colin Farrell leads the cast as a struggling screenwriter who gets caught up in his best friend's (Sam Rockwell) dog - napping scheme: take the puppy, return it to its owner, and collect the reward.

Joshy (Director & Screenwriter: Jeff Baena)-- Josh treats what would have been his bachelor party as an opportunity to reconnect with his friends.

Michael Caine stars as Fred Ballinger, a renowned Orchestra conductor, who is vacationing at a stunning Swiss Alps spa with his daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz) and his long - time best friend, screenwriter Mick Boyd (Harvey Keitel).

Danny Boyle's film is based on Walter Issacson's 2011 biography, as well as interviews screenwriter Aaron Sorkin conducted with the late mogul's colleagues and friends.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)-- Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.

A joint effort between a company known as The Collective and (of course) our friends at Bloody Disgusting, «BD Selects» hit screens of various sizes with solid acquisitions like Yellowbrickroad, Rammbock, Cold Fish, Atrocious, and (especially) The Woman, but it's nice to see the BD Selects team casting a wider net and reeling in some weirdly likable horror / comedies like Deadgirl / Cheap Thrills screenwriter Trent Haaga's Chop.

Screenwriters Rogen and longtime friend Evan Goldberg (they penned Superbad) have brought the property into the 21st century as notorious L.A party boy Britt Reid (Rogen) realizes the emptiness of his playboy ways after the death of his overbearing media magnate father (Batman Begins» Tom Wilkinson).

Walter Hill made the jump from literate screenwriter of tough - minded crime films to director of elegantly - made bare - knuckle thrillers and action dramas with Hard Times (1975), a depression - era tale of underground fights with Charles Bronson and James Coburn as business partners in who aren't quite friends but become the first of Hill's guarded buddy teams.

The oddballs, miscreants, bumblers, and loons who get up to all kinds of no good in this meta tale of moviemaking and crazy ambition include In Bruges «Colin Farrell as Marty, an alcoholic screenwriter; a full - tilt - loopy Sam Rockwell as Martin's maniacally eager - to - help best friend, Billy; and Christopher Walken (who's got first dibs forever on playing unhinged gentlemen) as Billy's partner in the business of dognapping.

Reading between the lines, it sounds as if Snyder and screenwriters Chris Terrio and Geoff Johns have likely had the exact same conversations about Batman fighting Superman that many of us have had with our own friends.

Donagh has previously written and directed such offbeat fare as «Seven Psychopaths» about a struggling screenwriter embroiled in the L.A. underworld when his friends kidnap a gangster's Shih Tzu.

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)-- Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.

The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, Presented by Acura: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Director: Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews)-- Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.

According to his family, he was «surrounded by the next generation of filmmakers and screenwriters he had mentored and inspired, as well as friends and family who came from all parts of the country for a two - week vigil before his death.»

So I did something that may be unusual for novelists but felt perfectly natural to me as a collaborator — I called upon two of my writer friends to help me do what screenwriters call «breaking the story.»

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