Sentences with phrase «blacklisted screenwriter»

The film, which follows the story of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Cranston) during the late»40s through the early»60s, is out in select theaters right now, with a wide release to come on November 25.

Bryan Cranston is channeling Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted screenwriter he plays with gusto in the biographical film directed by Jay Roach («Game Change,» «Recount»).

Jay Roach) The biopic of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is a throwback to classic American films, rich in dialogue, subtle in its use of music, highly moderated in its emotionality.

In a contest we can only imagine came down to either him or Bob Balaban, John Goodman is once again in talks to play a movie industry figure in Trumbo, Jay Roach's upcoming film about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

In a bonus twist, Roach was already working with Cranston on «Trumbo,» last year's biopic about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

«Trumbo» tells the real - life story of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo «s (Cranston) as he fights to make movies during the Red Scare in 1940s and»50s Hollywood.

Fearlessly led by Bryan Cranston as the blacklisted screenwriter and featuring Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg, Louis C.K., and Diane Lane, among so many others, in key supporting roles, «Trumbo» is a rollicking excursion into a dark chapter of Hollywood history.

Thanking the members of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo «s family who were in attendance, he said, «We're humored to tell your family's story.»

New to this edition are the featurettes «A Ticking Clock» with film editor Mark Goldblatt (6 minutes), «A Stanley Kramer Production» with filmmaker and film historian Michael Schlesinger (14 minutes), «Imitation of Life: The Blacklist History of High Noon» with historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein (10 minutes), and he visual essay «Oscars and Ulcers: The Production History of High Noon» narrated by Anton Yelchin (12 minutes).

The following year, he played blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in the film Trumbo (2015), nabbing Cranston his first Academy Award nomination.

How he manages to rope many of his fellow blacklisted screenwriters into a conspiracy working for underground film studios like the ones run by Frank (John Goodman) and Hymie King (Stephen Root)?

Not exact matches

«We've watched this happen to director Lexi Alexander and screenwriter Julie Bush when they published their respective exposes on sexism in the film business,» they added, referring to blog posts by Alexander and Bush that risked backlash (and blacklisting) by taking the entertainment industry to task.

The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

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.

An entertaining film about sobering true events, this is the story of notorious screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who defied McCarthy's communist witch - hunt hearings in the late - 1940s and was blacklisted by Hollywood for more than a decade...

There's much to admire on the screen yet even more to admire behind the scenes: Douglas, also the film's executive producer, hired screenwriter Dalton Trumbo to adapt Howard Fast's novel, a brave move given that Trumbo was one of the victims of the heinous Hollywood blacklist.

As blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, he whirls his cigarette (like him, a captive in an ornate holder), sitting in still bathwater, raving about the inadequacies of American political structures in that manic brilliance that he so finely honed playing Walter White.

Amid the Red Scare paranoia of «50s America, top Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was among ten writers blacklisted and imprisoned for their communist views, and while fighting for his creative freedom secretly penned some of the era's most enduring and Oscar - winning hits.

«Trumbo,» directed by Jay Roach with a script by John McNamara, is based on the life of 1940s Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, whose career hit a roadblock when he was blacklisted for being a suspected Communist.

Bryan Cranston plays Hollywood screenwriter Douglas Trumbo, who famously refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was subsequently blacklisted and sentenced to an 11 - month stay in prison.

The Accenture Gala is the European premiere of TRUMBO, directed by Jay Roach and starring Bryan Cranston in a cracking performance as Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role BRYAN CRANSTON, «TRUMBO» Cranston is commandingly eccentric in this take on Hollywood's blacklisting of suspected communists, capturing all of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's bravado and obstinance (even while naked in a bathtub), yet managing to rein in the quirks and outbursts that could have rendered him a caricature.

«Trumbo» Director Jay Roach has found a niche in political movies for HBO, and here he tackles the Hollywood blacklist with Bryan Cranston as banned author and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and Helen Mirren as powerful gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.

SYNOPSIS: In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their -LSB-...]

The Lord of The Rings actor plays Douglas as a young man in the film, which features Bryan Cranston as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter...

A savvy producer, he also helped to break the Communist blacklist in Hollywood when he insisted that blacklisted «Spartacus» screenwriter Dalton Trumbo receive screen credit.

TRUMBO: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Synopsis: The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he's blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist.

The stars join director Jay Roach to discuss the bleak atmosphere of McCarthyism, their biopic of blacklisted 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo

Meanwhile, Bryan Cranston takes on his first major movie role since the end of Breaking Bad with Trumbo, a drama about the 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted for his political beliefs.

Trumbo is based on the true story of Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter blacklisted from Hollywood in the»40s after refusing to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) on grounds that he was promoting Communist propaganda.

The details: Bryan Cranston leads a character - actor - heavy cast as Dalton Trumbo, the popular novelist - turned - screenwriter who was blacklisted from Hollywood for his Communist ties and imprisoned for contempt of Congress.

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.

«TRUMBO»: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was the most famous of the 10 former communist sympathizers blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s.

Director Jay Roach and scripter John McNamara use the life and times of screenwriter and Communist Dalton Trumbo (a superb Bryan Cranston) to showcase the evils of the Hollywood blacklist, yet they do so with plenty of humor and heart.

In 1947, successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and other Hollywood figures get blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Bryan Cranston stars as Blacklisted and beleaguered screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, but this tale of two trailers suggest slightly different Trumbos: the first trailer portrays the titular writer as a rich man with radical ideas who is then broken down by accusations of being a Communist before he finds screenwriting success again; the new trailer starts off with the hard - luck story of Trumbo before playing up the fight against Congress and the war against censorship.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

Trumbo (R for profanity and sexual references) Historical drama, set in the late Forties, recounting the blacklisting of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and some colleagues after being branded as Communists because of their progressive political views.

The actor also produced the blockbuster film and his very public hiring of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo helped to break Hollywood's blacklist of Communists.

Trumbo By Bruce Cook Grand Central • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9781455564989 Almost 40 years after it was first published, Grand Central is bringing out two new paperback editions of Bruce Cook's 1977 biography of Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood screenwriter blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

As a professional author / screenwriter et al, I have many friends who have republished their blacklists as indies.