Sentences with phrase «as screenwriters who»

For one, most of them double as screenwriters who produce their own original material.

Not exact matches

A former St. Albert's classmate introduces Eddie to a screenwriter and website operator who asks Eddie whether he owns any pornographic home videos of his old girlfriend Martha Martin, who since her breakup with Eddie has skyrocketed to fame as the star of the cheesy NBC medical drama Dr. Drake.

«Non-sarcastic hugs to those at NASA who will be returning to their jobs as awesome science wizards of the stars,» tweeted Sarcastic Rover, a Twitter persona developed by Canadian screenwriter Jason Filiatrault.

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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).

Fabled is the first feature film from Ari Kirschenbaum, who served as director, screenwriter, and editor.

First - time director / screenwriter Antonio Negret details the frightening trend of kidnapping in Columbia with this tense tale of a young photographer who is abducted and held for ransom as his desperate parents scramble to raise the money that could save their child's life.

After spending much of his primary and secondary school education in an alternative arts school, he studied film at New York University.Louiso began his career with minor roles in such films as Stella (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991), the latter of which provided him with an introduction to Tom Stoppard, who was the film's screenwriter.

To a certain degree, that's to be expected from just about any screenwriter, especially one who possesses as distinct a style as Alex Ross Perry.

The script apparently originated with the desire of screenwriter Liz Hannah «to tell the story of Katharine Graham, the former Washington Post publisher who became the first - ever female CEO of a Fortune 500 company... As Hannah was writing the first draft, the symmetry between Graham and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton seemed to be the most obvious parallel to the present.

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.

Screenwriters Michael Hirst (who wrote the first one) and William Nicholson are not exactly loyal to the historical record, even as distorted by the post-Tudor elite, and their cliché - studded dialogue is decidedly pre-Shakespearean.

Mr. Crowe, who started out as a teen - age journalist writing about rock music, has arrived as a screenwriter and director with a distinctively touching, quirky style.

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.

Of the world premieres, the major gets for Toronto include Freeheld, Peter Sollett's LGBT drama starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page; Stonewall, Roland Emmerich's drama about the birth of the gay rights movement; Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which is rumored to feature an awards - worthy performance from Maggie Smith; Jay Roach's film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as the famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1940s; Terence Davies's anticipated follow - up to The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song; Charlie Kaufman's first stop - motion film, Anomalisa; and Eye in the Sky, Gavin Hood's thriller about piloted aircraft warfare, starring Aaron Paul and Helen Mirren.

Though set in Chekhov's time, Mayer's approach, along with screenwriter Stephen Karam, renders this story of love and longing feels startlingly contemporary, particularly Elizabeth Moss» turn as Masha, who drowns here sorrows over unrequited love in both alcohol and a loveless marriage to a man who adores her.

I think that novelist - now - screenwriter Emma Donoghue originally wanted to present an ironic counterpoint for a character who is manic and crazed from seven years as a sex - slave captive (five of them as a mother), oublietted away in some freak's (Sean Bridgers, who already played this role in Lucky McKee's The Woman) garden shed.

In this universe rife with inside jokes and gems disguised as throwaway lines, Guest himself appears as the wondrously detached director of the film, who asserts his authority by not asserting it when dealing with addled actors or wounded first - time screenwriters (Bob Balaban and Michael McKean).

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has described herself as a «naked Margaret Mead,» a cultural anthropologist who for years studied the rites and rituals of the stripper tribe in lieu of the nine - to - five grind.

Lincoln Lawyer's Brad Furman directs this script by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who are revisiting familiar territory as the screenwriters for the 1998 poker film Rounders, along with the similarly gambling - centric Ocean's Thirteen.

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.

But while he riffs, mugs, jokes and impersonates as a workaholic developer - dad who needs penguins to teach him that family comes first, the trio of screenwriters show a lot of alliterative love to Ophelia Lovibond («No Strings Attached»), who plays Popper's punctilious pal Friday, Pippi.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

The screenwriters, Milo Addica (who was a co-writer of «Monster's Ball»), Jean - Claude Carrière (whose long career includes two decades of collaboration with Luis Buñuel) and Mr. Glazer are more concerned with atmosphere than with explanation, and the key to appreciating «Birth» is not so much a suspension of disbelief as an anxious surrender of reason.

Abandon, the directorial debut of noted screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, casts Katie Holmes as Katie Burke - a frazzled college student who must deal with the return of a former love (Charlie Hunnam), as well as an alcoholic cop's (Benjamin Bratt) investigation into said boyfriend's disappearance two years earlier.

Written by the English screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who many may know as the scribe behind The Full Monty, Boyle has blended this romantic fable with his own, frenetic style and some nods towards a Bollywood aesthetic in order to create the Scottish filmmaker's most accessible work to date.

Catrin (Gemma Arterton) is a secretary who finds herself assigned as a screenwriter, working alongside Buckley and Parfitt (Sam Claflin and Paul Ritter) to write movies for veteran actor Ambrose (Bill Nighy).

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.

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, who also double as screenwriters, play geeky British tourists who rent an RV and scout out UFO landmarks in Nevada.

I say this as someone who was very much surprised by how entertaining this look at screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood black list was, despite -LSB-...]

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.

I suppose screenwriter Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious) felt that art should imitate life, as he decided to give the Bride in Black a queer origin story about a gender - confused man who was driven insane by his abusive mother who desperately wanted a daughter.

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.

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

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

Considering the limitless possibilities of having a character who is able to manipulate the cosmos as he sees fit, the screenwriters (Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe, and Steve Oedekerk) don't stretch their imaginations as much as you'd expect them to.

Subsequent Career: Providing something of a template for screenwriters who want to make the jump, Steven Zaillian has continued as a high - profile screenwriter long after his directorial debut, only occasionally dipping his toe back in directorial waters, and never with the same straightforward success of his first time out.

Former screenwriters who cut their teeth on raunchy comedies like Bad Santa (as well as unwatchable fare like Cats & Dogs), Ficarra and Requa are attentive to their cast's rich, lined faces.

But of all those jealously eyeing the director's megaphone (metaphorical sadly, they seem to have gone the way of the plus - four as part of the director's standard kit) perhaps those with the most reason to be covetous are the screenwriters, the hardy souls who turn in 120 - page draft after draft, only to have their baby wrested from their grasp and dressed up, maybe brilliantly but often not, in clothes they might not have chosen themselves.

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.

Though the director didn't know it when he cast him, Chalamet is the grandson of screenwriter Harold Flender, who wrote for Sid Caesar (as did Allen, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner, among others) and The Jackie Gleason Show in the 1950s.

As a final note we should also mention that we excluded a host of classic directors who may have initially started as screenwriters, but whose subsequent output as director, or writer / director, may have overshadowed their early days, like Federico Fellini (directorial debut — «Variety Lights»), Barry Levinson («Diner»), Billy Wilder («Mauvaise Graine») Lawrence Kasdan («Body Heat») and Joseph Manckiewicz («Backfire»As a final note we should also mention that we excluded a host of classic directors who may have initially started as screenwriters, but whose subsequent output as director, or writer / director, may have overshadowed their early days, like Federico Fellini (directorial debut — «Variety Lights»), Barry Levinson («Diner»), Billy Wilder («Mauvaise Graine») Lawrence Kasdan («Body Heat») and Joseph Manckiewicz («Backfire»as screenwriters, but whose subsequent output as director, or writer / director, may have overshadowed their early days, like Federico Fellini (directorial debut — «Variety Lights»), Barry Levinson («Diner»), Billy Wilder («Mauvaise Graine») Lawrence Kasdan («Body Heat») and Joseph Manckiewicz («Backfire»as director, or writer / director, may have overshadowed their early days, like Federico Fellini (directorial debut — «Variety Lights»), Barry Levinson («Diner»), Billy Wilder («Mauvaise Graine») Lawrence Kasdan («Body Heat») and Joseph Manckiewicz («Backfire»).

Which is all right with us, as we're big fans of the man who was not only, famously, the highest - paid screenwriter in Hollywood at one time, he has also turned out to be a genuinely terrific genre director, with a particularly bright eye for the wit and wisecrackery he writes so well.

A little trimming by screenwriter Ol Parker and a little more confidence in who the story is about — rather than a need to showcase every character as much as they can — would have been a quick and easy fix to a film that's enjoyable but spread thin.

The film, written by first - time screenwriter Pat Rushin, centers on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a nervous, very bald man who lives in a church, has spent his life waiting for a mysterious phone call, and works as an «esoteric data» cruncher for the Mancorp corporation.

Film screenwriter Bill Dubuque used his knowledge that he amassed while writing the screenplays for films such as The Accountant and A Family Man to co-create Ozark, a TV series starring Jason Bateman about a financial planner who launders money for a Mexican cartel in the Missouri Ozarks.

News from the Star Wars universe had fans nervous, as screenwriter Michael Arndt left his Episode VII draft to be rewritten by director JJ Abrams and Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote 1980's The...