Sentences with phrase «as the screenwriters of»

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.

Raised a strict Dutch Calvinist and best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver — another portrait of a bristling lone wolf — Schrader inevitably got around to including a priest in this unofficial series of films.

Although perhaps best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Oscar - winning 1976 film Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader has gone on to become a distinctive director in his own right since the late 1970s.

Still best known as the screenwriter of Taxi Driver (1976), veteran director Paul Schrader indulges his two big passions — Calvinism and bloodletting — with this audacious drama.

The trades have caught up with Robert Luketic «s appointment as director of the new Barbarella, with The Hollywood Reporter also naming Joe Gazzam as the screenwriter of the upcoming do - over.

It used to actually mean something to see the Oscar - nominated names of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel as the screenwriters of a comedy, writers of such modern - day classic comedies as A League of Their Own, Parenthood, City Slickers, Night Shift, and Splash, but most of those films were in their past, and they have turned in mostly mediocre material since 1992.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

Alain Robbe - Grillet is best known as an experiment novelist in the nouvelle roman movement of the fifties and as the screenwriter of Alain Resnais» elegant yet conceptually daring French nouvelle vague landmark Last Year at Marienbad.

After scoring as the screenwriter of Animal House and Meatballs, Harold Ramis made his directorial debut with this hilarious comedy set at an exclusive golf course.

Rowling was set as the screenwriter of this brand new prequel franchise, and we'd be getting a new series of films set in the Wizarding World that A. Don't try to reboot or rework the brilliant Harry Potter saga and B. Offer new insights into characters we only heard about in the original series.

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The genius of first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah's script is that she makes the story about Graham's evolution as much as it is about the Pentagon Papers.

Anthony Bourdain, moonlighting as a screenwriter for the HBO series Treme, worked Pappy into a scene; Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, did the same with a bottle of WhistlePig, a rye whiskey bottled in Vermont (rye is like bourbon, except that its primary grain is rye, not corn).

Goldman's got a history of coming up with good ideas, as the screenwriter for both All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but the idea for Princess Bride 2 just won't come.

Yes, the authors of the Gospels were a bit like a group of screenwriters fulfilling a prediction that James Bond will save the World, get the girl and kill the bad guy as the write the script for the upcoming Bond film.

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.»

She immigrated to the U.S. in 1926 after graduating from the University of Petrograd and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

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.

Visionaries have long dreamed of leaving the road for the skies, and the idea of a flying car has fascinated pilots as well as Hollywood screenwriters (think Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Back to the Future, and The Jetsons).

Today Levine is a novelist and screenwriter in Los Angeles, with a life - sized cardboard cutout of Paterno gazing over his shoulder as he types.

He's been a web video producer at National Geographic as well as a screenwriter and an all - around video guru, and he'll be evaluating the video questions from a film - guy's point of view.

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.

«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.

The universe is full of possibilities, but it looks as though — at least for now — sci - fi screenwriters will have to come up with a more plausible storyline.

Besides from being famous as the ex-husband of Madonna and an accomplished movie director and screenwriter, Guy Ritchie has some major talents to brag about, one of which is represented by a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Screenwriter, director, producer, actress — and as of this year, second woman ever to win Best Director at Cannes — Sofia Coppola is a force to be reckoned with.

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.

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.

Martin Booth's novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is reformulated into a minimalist western by director Anton Corbijn and screenwriter Rowan Joffee, where a stranger named jack (George Clooney) wanders into an isolated town and goes through a process of self - analysis, questioning his career as a gunsmith / hired killer.

It's a shame, then, that screenwriters Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon have opted to throw in a series of increasingly dramatic interludes, as there's just no denying that such moments come off as entirely needless and flat - out forced (ie unlike certain similarly - themed efforts, the film's more schmaltzy attributes stand out like a sore thumb).

There is also a bit of what screenwriters call «sexposition»: that is, if you have a couple of sleazy male characters discussing something important to the plot, they might as well do it in a topless bar for the added frisson.

Screenwriters / directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck take the time to examine each of these men as individuals, exploring how they exist in the unforgiving world of gambling and even delving into the question of why they are the way they are.

The best compliment I can give Stone as a screenwriter and director of Snowden is that he took a thoroughly challenging scenario with few cut - and - dry answers and made an accessible movie experience that effectively conveys moral outrage and dismay.

It's instantly clear that Howard, along with returning screenwriter David Koepp, has learned nothing from the relative failure of both The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as Inferno, for the most part, chugs along at a lackadaisical pace that's compounded by an overlong running time and surfeit of underwhelming subplots.

A middle - class Danish drama detailing the crumbling marriage of a one - time library assistant and a downbeat factory worker, Honeymoon served as an ideal showcase not only for August's abilities as a director, but his talents as a screenwriter as well.

Screenwriter David H. Steinberg offers up eye - rollingly over-the-top comedic set - pieces that become more and more desperate as the movie unfolds (ie a character is raped by a moose), yet it's the absence of compelling characters and the almost uniformly hackneyed nature of the various storylines that inevitably cements American Pie Presents The Book of Love's undeniable downfall.

It's a very moving indie drama that, as the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, could be the start of a very great career for him as something other than a writer.You should definitely give this film a watch.

Director Andrew Waller and screenwriter Erik Lindsay constantly (and consistently) aim Beta House squarely at the lowest common denominator, as the film possesses plenty of lewd elements designed to appeal to precisely the sort of drunken frat boys it exclusively portrays.

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.

Joined by a fairly new screenwriter in terms of feature films, Liz Hannah definitely proves herself as a worthy writer as well.

As much fun as might be to see Seann William Scott ingesting dog feces, it's returning screenwriter Adam Herz's examination of his characters» hearts that keeps American Wedding from being a rote exercise in tastelessnesAs much fun as might be to see Seann William Scott ingesting dog feces, it's returning screenwriter Adam Herz's examination of his characters» hearts that keeps American Wedding from being a rote exercise in tastelessnesas might be to see Seann William Scott ingesting dog feces, it's returning screenwriter Adam Herz's examination of his characters» hearts that keeps American Wedding from being a rote exercise in tastelessness.

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).

The result is not nearly as clever as director Tom McGrath (Madagascar) and a couple of inexperienced screenwriters (Alan Schoolcraft and Brent Simons) would have us believe, but I've got no doubt that audiences will nonetheless reward the minimal efforts coming from these filmmakers.

After taking some time off from directing and scriptwriting to appear in such films as Out of Sight (1998), Brooks resumed his director - screenwriter - actor hyphenate with The Muse (1999), starring opposite Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone as a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter in search of divine inspiration; Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World followed in 2005.

In 1996, he served as the screenwriter and executive producer for the George Clooney schlock-fest From Dusk Till Dawn, and the following year renewed some of his earlier acclaim as the director and screenwriter of Jackie Brown.

As Holland and the screenwriter, David F. Shamoon, tell the story, goodness, like a puzzling new form of strength, creeps into Socha's temperament; he develops a sense of responsibility plumped by vanity.

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.

His final film credit was as a screenwriter for Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.

A certain studiousness afflicts even his most accomplished work as a screenwriter and director, a tendency to put his erudition ahead of his instincts.

A big saving factor of this film involves the generous use of physical humor, both from Johnson and George, as well some funny lines written by the four screenwriters.

As a screenwriter - for this picture at least - Devos puts too much stock in his visual style to carry the meaning of a thinly plotted, snail - paced slice - of - life.