Sentences with phrase «by screenplay writer»

Kathryn Stocketts 2009 «button - pushing» novel, was reworked for the silver screen by screenplay writer and director Tate Taylor.

** Commentary by Screenplay Writer / Director Alexandre Aja, Screenplay Writer / Art Director Gregory Levasseur and Producer Marianne Maddalena

Wonderful job by screenplay writer to bring to life the essence of the story.

Not exact matches

This started a notorious ongoing battle over creative control, led by Hollywood fat - cat David Geffen and professional insane - person Jon Peters, who had writer Glenn Shadix rewrite the screenplay to a PG - rated comedy.

The fault falls with the screenplay, penned by no less than three writers — Sean Anders (co - writer / director of «Sex Drive,» a long way from home), John Morris (who co-wrote «Sex Drive,» «Hot Tub Time Machine» and «She's Out of My League» with Anders), and Jared Stern (who contributed «additional script materials» to «Bolt» and «The Princess and the Frog «-RRB-.

Credited to three writers, «The Fighter» was directed by David O. Russell, who reportedly rewrote the screenplay during filming, adding humor to a project originally planned for Darren Aronofsky («The Wrestler,» «Black Swan»), who isn't exactly known for his light touch.

But as is often the case in Ron Howard's movies, the morals, the messages, and the barely - hidden subtext are beaten home with a leaden hammer, plus the screenplay (by Space Cowboys writer Ken Kaufman) leaves little to no room for subtlety or nuance.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

The first screenplay by comedy performer Brent Simons and Coen Brothers collaborator Alan J. Schoolcraft, Megamind is directed by Tom McGrath, one of the writers and directors of both Madagascar movies.

The screenplay (by «Sahara's» Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer and former porn - flick writer Gregory Poirier) has numerous obstacles pop up to slow Sonia and Travis in their quest to go back in time and fix the future, mostly in the form of dangerous new animal species like the aforementioned monkeysauruses.

Screenplay by W.R. Burnett and James Clavell and among other uncredited writers, William Roberts, Walter Newman, and Nelson Gidding, based on the book by Paul Brickhill.

The screenplay, by TV writers Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, clings to the romantic - comedy formula at all costs, and sometimes with ridiculous results.

The screenplay by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida), adapted from a novel by British writer Naomi Alderman, provides generous insight into cultural and spiritual customs, and offers an intriguing perspective on how their patriarchal basis seems outdated in the 21st century.

Working from a screenplay by writer John Collee, director Jon Amiel delivers a waterlogged look at Charles Darwin with Creation, a muttenchop enthusiast's delight that's part historical drama, part hysterical drama.

Finnish - born Hollywood filmmaker Renny Harlin directs the suspense thriller Mindhunters with a screenplay by writer / director Wayne Kramer.

Among the more notable recognition: winning the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), picking up BAFTA and Writers Guild nominations for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's original screenplay, winning a comedy / musical editing award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art Directors Guild.

Jeremy and John - Henry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010), directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..

Four writers are credited with the screenplay, which provides Burke with at least half a dozen opportunities to perform full stand - up routines at comedy clubs, a wedding, a retirement community, the courtroom and even a roast at The Friars Club honoring 95 year old actress, May Conner (played by Cloris Leachman).

Amazon Studios has given a four - episode order to the untitled miniseries, created for television by Schindler's List writer Zaillian and adapted from a screenplay by the late Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, reports variety.com.

The screenplay is written by Tess Gerritsen, writer of the «Rizzoli & Isles» novels.

The screenplay is by writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Zombieland, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Deadpool).

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

In a way, «The Spectacular Now,» based on the novel by Tim Tharp with a screenplay by» (500) Days of Summer» writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, has given a maligned genre a shot of freshness and emotion.

Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale, and Elizabeth Banks Director: Brian Henson Writer: Screenplay by Todd Berger, Story by Todd Berger & Dee Austin Robertson Producers: Brian Henson, Jeff Hayes, Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone

The Kite Runner sails onto DVD with audio commentaries (by director Marc Foster, novel author Khaled Hosseini and screenplay writer David Benioff), three featurettes (Words From The Kite Runner, Images From The Kite Runner and a Public Service Announcement With Khaled Hosseini) and theatrical trailers.

But in these results there is a notable echo of last season, where the only roadblock for «La La Land» came at the WGA Awards when «Moonlight» — categorized as an original screenplay by the guild, yet adapted by the Academy's writers branch — upset the perceived best - picture frontrunner.

Writer - director Quentin Tarantino's screenplay has been adapted into a comic book by Vertigo, and will debut December 19.

The original story was by John Romano, an accomplished TV writer (Hill Street Blues, Party of Five) who went on to write the screenplays for Nights in Rodanthe and The Lincoln Lawyer.

Writer / director Pogue and his co-screenwriters Craig Rosenberg and Oren Moverman adapt a screenplay written by Tom de Ville into a film that is all atmosphere and little substance.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Call Me By Your Name writer James Ivory has criticized the movie for leaving out the full - frontal nudity and explicit sex that was in the screenplay.

The screenplay - by Frank Pierson (Dog Day Afternoon) and TV - writer Cynthia Cidre - is fragmentary, and director Norman Jewison, who brilliantly interwove the various elements of Moonstruck, fails to do something similar here.

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Produced by, among others, spy novelist Olen Steinhauer and veteran TV writer - producer Bradford Winters (whose screenplays cover an impressive chronology from The Borgias to The Americans), Berlin Station follows the hunt for a Snowdenesque mole who is leaking unflattering CIA secrets to the world.

The Writers Guild of America has just finished handing out their awards for 2017, resulting in James Ivory («Call Me by Your Name») and Jordan Peele («Get Out») taking top honors for Adapted and Original Screenplays, respectively.

Sherlock Gnomes — Film Review by Katie McCann Director: John Stevenson Writers: Ben Zazove (screenplay by), Andy Riley (story by) etc..

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

The unusual nature of this year's Oscar season is that all five of the films named today are by writers and directors who wrote original screenplays.

Above all is the extremely well - written Oscar - nominated screenplay by the same writers that gave us The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Il Postino.

The evolution of the movie «The Post» (2017)-- a story about The Washington Post's 1970s battles with government over its publication of classified information relating to the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers — reportedly goes something like this: It was a screenplay authored by Jewish writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, who presented it to Jewish film producer Amy Pascal, who decided it would «be a great story to tell.»

The same can not be said for «The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» where coasting is all there is, in the hopes that these charismatic and talented actors can somehow make tandoori chicken salad out of a screenplay (by returning writer Ol Parker, no longer tethered to the novel by Deborah Maggoch) that's chock - full of unmotivated action, half - baked characters, and lazily - constructed conflicts so contrived they'd get booted out of the «Two and a Half Men» writer's room.

Writers: Story by Zack Snyder & Chris Terrio, Screenplay by Chris Terrio (Based on characters from DC Entertainment, Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster)

The screenplay by Nelson Gidding (The Haunting, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure) stays mostly faithful to its source material, which is laudable given the fact that it would have originally seemed to most writers to have been unfilmable without injecting a great deal of action.

David Mathews («Narcos,» «Boardwalk Empire») writes from an original screenplay by crime writer James Ellroy («L.A. Confidential»).

Tim Miller will direct the project based on a screenplay by ZOMBIELAND writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

At the age of 89, writer - director James Ivory won Adapted Screenplay for his lovely, thoughtful treatment of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name, making him the oldest Oscar winner in history.

if you didn't know, there's already a screenplay by writer / director Jeff Wadlow, which features the «merc with a mouth» appearing alongside the mutant Cable and his team of mutants.

Screenplay predictions can be a bit tricky this early on as we saw with this year's Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Moonlight, which won multiple Original Screenplay citations from critics as well as the Writers Guild of America but was deemed Adapted by the Academy deep into the Oscar season.

It was then adapted into a screenplay by Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse, two of the writers behind 2007's quality animated film «Surf's Up».

Runtime: 107 mins Director: Brad Peyton Writer: Ryan Engle (screenplay by), Carlton Cuse Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman Genre: Action Sci - fi Tagline: Big meets bigger.