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The 2011 hit comedy is returning as screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have closed the deal to create HORRIBLE BOSSES 2.

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.

Not exact matches

She has also been identified, perhaps more by modern novelists and screenwriters than by the ancients, as the woman at the well (John 4:4.29).

DC comic book writers and artists such as DC Entertainment's Jim Lee, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Shea Fontana, Agnes Garbowska, Tom King, Steve Orlando, Alice Randall, Oscar ® - winning screenwriter John Ridley, Mark Russell, Mariko Tamaki and DC Entertainment's Geoff Johns, the best - selling author of Rebirth and Doomsday Clock.

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

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).

Not many books have been as consequential as «Origin of Species,» and Mr. Bettany's Darwin, as imagined by the director Jon Amiel and the screenwriter John Collee, has more than an inkling of what the fallout will be.

Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger must have noticed that amphetamine - fueled mugging tested well in Revenge of the Fallen, so the third film is graced with the brilliantly hyperactive Ken Jeong — perhaps the one actor in Bay's 17 - year directing career who perfectly embodies his outsized, everything - plus - half - again - as - much style — and John Malkovich.

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.

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.

It's hard to imagine a creative trio bringing Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel, «Brooklyn,» to the screen as elegantly as star Saoirse Ronan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, and director John Crowley; it was a seamless fit for this sweeping coming - of - age adaptation about a an Irish girl relocating to America in the 1950's.

Ford is initially presented as a sympathetic man, even seen as such by Solomon himself, but the way McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley disillusion us of the very notion of this idea is masterful.

From his inspired collaborations with the prolific writer Charlie kaufman in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to his adapted screenplay of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze continues to prove himself as not only an important film - maker of his time but also a wonderful screenwriter, and his latest feature Her starring Joaquin Phoenix might just be his magnum opus.

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

John Logan, screenwriter for Gladiator, provides some good moments of dramatic tension, even if Shinzon looks and acts a bit too much like Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus to think he wasn't borrowing ideas from himself.

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.

Fault in Our Stars began as a book written by John Green, before it was adapted for the big screen by screenwriter duo Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber.

Though most of the cast returns, as well as the screenwriters of the first film, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, with Ryan Reynolds also snagging a writing credit, Deadpool 2 recruited David Leitch (one half of John Wick's directorial team) to replace Tim Miller, and the change works.

But what makes Skyfall top off as Bond at his best is the way Mendes and screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan use England itself — past, present and uncertain future — to remind us where Bond has been and where he's going.

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.

Jimi: All Is by My Side — starring OutKast's Andre Benjamin as Jimi Hendrix, written and directed by Oscar - winning screenwriter John Ridley — had its Hollywood premiere at ArcLight Cinemas.

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.

Nicholas Hoult is obnoxiously talentless A&R man Steven Stelfox (think Patrick Bateman minus the killer charm) in screenwriter John Niven's adaptation of his own 2008 novel, itself inspired by his stint as a talent scout who turned down Coldplay and Muse.

Walter Huston (who won an Oscar for his work, as did son John as both director and screenwriter) is something of a force of morality even as he's a force of nature.

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.

Title: Mad Max: Fury Road Director: George Miller Release Date: May 15, 2015 Running Time: 120 minutes Language: English Shooting Location (s): Australia, Namibia, South Africa Principal Cast: Charlize Theron, Megan Gale, Tom Hardy, John Howard, Nathan Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz, Richard Carter, Rosie Huntington - Whiteley, Hugh Keays - Byrne, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Courtney Eaton, Josh Helman, Jennifer Hagan, iOTA, Angus Sampson, Joy Smithers, Gillian Jones, Melissa Jaffer, Melita Jurisic Screenwriter (s): George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris Production Company: Kennedy Miller Productions (as Kennedy Miller Mitchell), Village Roadshow Pictures Distributor: Warner Bros..

Screenwriters and directors Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley essentially construct a series of setpieces to comedically interrupt the Griswolds as they journey from point A to point B. However, filling the shoes of John Hughes who penned the original «Vacation» is a task not easily done, and missing from the pages of this movie is an underlying sense of heart, and anything resembling a thoughtful approach to humor.

Long before John Krasinski came on board his Sundance premiere «The Hollars» as director, he had been eyed by screenwriter James Strouse as a strong contender to play the film's leading role, as father - to - be with a lot on his shoulders, John Hollar.

As the child of immigrants myself, I could feel my strings being plucked by this tale of a fair Colleen from Ireland finding love and fulfillment in the New World, and it's certainly a compliment to director John Crowley («Boy A») and screenwriter Nick Hornby (adapting the novel by Colm Tóibín) that the film calls to mind Steven Spielberg and even John Ford in its willingness to commit to the grand gesture.

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

Director John Curran and screenwriters Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen look at how the Kennedy family machine of advisors and lawyers sprang into action to protect a man seen by many as the frontrunner for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.

Charlie Kaufman went from TV scribe to red - hot screenwriter in 1999 with «Being John Malkovich,» and his timing couldn't have been better: That's a year the industry looks back upon as being a flashpoint of American indie cinema, with rule - breaking, ambitious films like «Pi,» «Boys Don't Cry,» «The Blair Witch Project,» «Three Kings» and «Fight Club» in multiplexes.

Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a screenwriter who, fresh off the success of Being John Malkovich, finds himself courted as the scribe of choice for the adaptation of a literary flavour - of - the - month.

Returning from the DVD — though not the TCM reissue — is a commentary from director Sydney Pollack, actor Robert Redford, and screenwriter John Milius, with the late Pollack, probably as a consequence of having more to say than his collaborators, getting the most mike - time.

He and screenwriter Don Jakoby transform John Steakley's novel «Vampire $» into a perverse remake of Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo by way of Sergio Leone, with James Woods as a foul - mouthed, hard - drinking, whore - mongering John Wayne leading a wild bunch of hard - edged vampire hunters.

Hugo has a lot going for it: It's got pedigree — screenwriter John Logan has previously been nominated for Scorsese's The Aviator, as well as Gladiator.

You can see why master filmmaker Scott was attracted to the pulsating, suspenseful drama inherent in this material that screenwriter David Scarfa adapted from John Pearson's book on Getty, Painfully Rich, as it focuses on just the portion of the book that concentrates on this incident.

As a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has been responsible for some of the most inventive scripts of the past two decades, starting with Being John Malkovich, in 1999, and continuing through such superior examples as AdaptatioAs a screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman has been responsible for some of the most inventive scripts of the past two decades, starting with Being John Malkovich, in 1999, and continuing through such superior examples as Adaptatioas Adaptation.

Director Francis Ford Coppola, a known liberal, plainly saw the scene as disturbing, but screenwriter John Milius, a known hawk, has often suggested that he saw it as a hoot.

Just as its predecessor can be granted some leeway for the action - hero status afforded to Sherlock Holmes simply because the character is named Sherlock Holmes (It's not too much of a stretch to imagine him a skilled combatant, if one only reads between the lines of Doyle as Holmes» ever - faithful assistant Dr. John Watson), there's an instinctive reaction to forgive screenwriters Michele and Kieran Mulroney for their broadly megalomaniacal interpretation of James Moriarty.

More than conceivable that screenwriter Helen Childress was influenced by these John Hughes productions (whether or not she consciously chose to emulate them), it's probable: Childress was of breakfast - club age when they were released, and as any child of the»80s will tell you, they were too reverent of teenage travails to inspire much in the way of hipster backlash.

With an unexpected election outcome, director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and first time screenwriter Jonathan Perera may just luck out since their film can alternatively be interpreted as a scathing commentary on a corrupt existing system... the single biggest reason for that surprise election result.

Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan (Rango, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) lavish a lot of love on these sequences, as well they should — these bits are a gorgeous valentine to the first movies — but it's like something imported from a distant land compared to where the movie began.

The directorial debut of 12 Years a Slave screenwriter and American Crime creator John Ridley, it stars Andre Benjamin (one half of Outkast) as music icon Jimi Hendrix.

Prior to their Oscar wins in respective categories, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

To the credit of screenwriters Harald Rosenløw - Eeg and John Kåre Raake, as well as director Roar Uthaug, they stick to the reality of this scenario.

She is reprising her role as the strict boarding house manager Madge Keogh for a TV spin - off of the film, and she told reporters she was excited for the show and the involvement of screenwriter / author Nick Hornby and director John Crowley.

In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

Back in Hollywood thereafter — the movie elides the two years he spent in Mexico with three other screenwriters and their families — he's obliged to support his family by writing screenplays under pseudonyms for low - rent producers such as the King brothers (played for laughs by John Goodman and Stephen Root).

Jay Roach)-- World Premiere Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) stars as the famous screenwriter and Hollywood blacklist victim Dalton Trumbo, in this engrossing biopic co-starring Helen Mirren, Elle Fanning, Diane Lane and John Goodman.