Sentences with phrase «debut of screenwriter»

But the film that's going to launch her into the stratosphere is «A Winter's Tale,» the directorial debut of screenwriter Akiva Goldsman.

The Weinstein Company has unveiled an official trailer for the indie thriller Wind River, the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (of Sicario and Hell or High Water previously).

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The feature directorial debut of screenwriter Tommy Swerdlow, A Thousand Junkies strikes a nerve and strikes a delicate tonal balance, often making the viewer laugh and cringe from painful identification within a matter of seconds.

Nightcrawler is the directing debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy, co-written with his brother, Tony Gilroy, who also directed), and whatever I may think about the movie (and I am not as big a fan as the rest of the world), it does not feel like a first movie.

Nightcrawler marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Dan Gilroy, and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a man drawn into the shady world of freelance crime journalism in Los Angeles (hence its title).

Marking the directorial debut of screenwriter Thomas Michael Donnelly, Quicksilver opens with hand - colored tableaus celebrating its bike messenger characters.

There are plenty of Stetsons on view, as you'd expect in a movie named Les Cowboys, the directing debut of screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, and they're worn by French people.

A new poster has arrived online for Scot Armstrong's upcoming bromantic comedy Search Party which stars T.J. Miller, Thomas Middleditch and Adam Pally; check it out below... Wedding bells threaten to break up three best friends» long - running bromance, but they aren't going down without a fight in Search Party, the directing debut of screenwriter Scot -LSB-...]

STX Entertainment has debuted the second trailer for Molly's Game, the directorial debut of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

More moral conundrum than sci - fi spectacle, Ex Machina (the directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Garland) is a conceit worthy of the best episodes of Star Trek.

«Ex Machina» Just when we thought M. Night Shyamalan ruined the plot twist forever, along comes the directorial debut of screenwriter Alex Garland, which not only pulls the rug out from under us over and over again (without cheating or making us lose interest) but also has interesting things to say about technology (as embodied by Alicia Vikander «s artificially intelligent robot) and mankind's diminishing capacity to control it.

Global Road Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an action film titled Hotel Artemis, the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3, M: I - Rogue Nation) who also wrote the script for this.

Ketchup Entertainment today announced the acquisition of U.S. rights to «Wolves», the directorial debut of screenwriter David Hayter -LRB-» X-Men»,» X2»,» Watchmen»), the studio announced today.

It's the directorial debut of screenwriter Eskil Vogt, who co-wrote the films Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Louder Than Bombs (2015) with friend and fellow filmmaker Joachim Trier, and it has a similar sensibility.

Wedding bells threaten to break up three best friends» long - running bromance, but they aren't going down without a fight in Search Party, the directing debut of screenwriter Scot Armstrong (The Hangover Part II, Old School).

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.

The upcoming drama / comedy The Way, Way Back marks the directorial debut of screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who won the Oscar for writing The Descendants.

Not exact matches

«Seeking a Friend for the End of the World's screenwriter, Lorene Scafaria, who also made her feature film directorial debut with the romantic dramedy, perfectly captured the essence of people needing to find comfort in each other during dire circumstances with Dodge and Penny.

Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel about a vacationing American con artist and his wife (played by Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst, respectively), and a Greek - speaking American tour guide (Oscar Isaac) who forms a dangerous bond with the couple.

A veteran screenwriter with strong roots in speculative fiction («Sunshine,» «28 Days Later...»), Garland made a knockout directorial debut with «Ex Machina» (2014), which gave us the gift of Alicia Vikander playing a sinuous female robot, plus the equally unforgettable image of Isaac tearing it up on the dance floor.

Perversely eccentric and frequently inert, screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directorial debut, Passion Play, will benefit from some of the well - known names attached, but the near - painful hipness of the production will yield poisonous word of mouth.

A cynical New York salesman (Michael Keaton) finds his scornful ways unexpectedly softened upon falling for the fiancée of his new business partner (Brendan Fraser), a Midwest transplant attempting to find his footing in the city, in screenwriter - turned - director Michael Caleo's feature directorial debut.

Ergo screenwriter Hossein Amini's directorial debut finds Mortensen perfectly cast in the Joseph Cotten — ish role of Chester MacFarland, an urbane American touring Greece with his glamorous wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst), perhaps less to see the ruins than to avoid joining their ranks.

The film is the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (two of the Oscar - winning screenwriters of The Descendants), who also pen the excellent screenplay and take supporting roles.

The screenwriter's directorial debut «Molly's Game» arrives this fall in the thick of awards season, and it's got what looks like another knockout Jessica Chastain performance at its center.

In the assured hands of Dan Gilroy, a longtime screenwriter («The Fall,» «The Bourne Legacy») making his directing debut, that dream becomes a chilling nightmare.

«Winter's Tale» is the feature film directorial debut of Academy Award - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who penned the 2001 Best Picture winner «A Beautiful Mind».

by Walter Chaw The same kind of movie as Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith but more so, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang marks the hyphenate debut of star screenwriter Shane Black, and it's the kind of movie his Last Action Hero would have been had they aimed it at adults (and cast actors).

In The Wall, director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) has teamed up with debut screenwriter Dwain Worrell to create a 90 - minute thriller about snipers divided by the eponymous rickety structure, which is part of a bombed building in the Iraqi desert in 2007.

Synecdoche, New York: Like The Burning Plain, Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut showcases a screenwriter who, freed from the influence of collaborators, indulges all his thematic quirks like a dieting matron lunging at a box of bonbons.

Adapted from Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline's debut novel of the same name, this dystopian sci - fi is absolutely jam - packed with»80s pop culture references, making it one of our most anticipated films of next year.

Screenwriter Kevin Williamson's follow - up to Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer ultimately comes off as a prototypical teen slasher that unapologetically emphasizes many of the conventions and clichés lampooned within his 1996 debut.

Debuting director Michael Gracey and screenwriters Jenny Bicks (2014's «Rio 2») and Bill Condon (2006's «Dreamgirls») unapologetically burst with heart - on - sleeve earnestness and sentimentality in a passion project about leading with your heart, making dreams a reality with pennies to your name, and proving 19th - century society wrong and pleading for acceptance in the most glorious of ways.

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.

The screenwriter of 28 Days Later... (2002) made his directorial debut three years ago with the exceptional Ex Machina (2014).

Annihilation is the second film directed by novelist - turned screenwriter - turned - filmmaker Alex Garland, and it proves a worthy follow - up to his directorial debut, Ex Machina (2015), a clinical psychodrama that used an artificial intelligence robot to force us to question the fundamental essence of humanity.

Screenwriter Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland, Mrs. Brown) makes his feature directing debut with this modest, moving and semi-autobiographical film.

«River of Grass» / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Kelly Reichardt)-- River of Grass, Kelly Reichardt's debut feature, chronicles the misadventures of disaffected housewife Cozy and her lover, the aimless layabout Lee.

The directing and producing debut of Geoffrey Fletcher, the Academy Award - winning screenwriter of Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire, Violet & Daisy widely defies the expectations set by its opening.

This certainly isn't the case with the latest reboot of Brighton Rock by screenwriter / debut director Rowan Joffe (The American).

The results range from the sublime to the ridiculous, of course (there's no guarantee that even a great screenwriter will coincidentally come equipped with the talents to be a great director, after all), and with two others coming down the pike (Alex Garland «s «Ex-Machina «and Matthew Michael Carnahan's «Violent Talent» with Garrett Hedlund) this week sees another attempt as Geoffrey Fletcher, Oscar - winning screenwriter of «Precious» releases his directorial debut, «Violet and Daisy.»

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.

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.

James, who was once sentenced to spend a year in jail for extortion, was a part of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and made his directorial debut with Little Birds, a movie starring Juno Temple, Leslie Mann, and Kate Bosworth.

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»).

Rowling's debut as a screenwriter is inspired by a same - named, catalog - style textbook that is supposed to be the work of a «magizoologist» and Hogwarts alum named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne in eccentric shy - guy mode).

Director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and screenwriter Susan Coyne (in her feature debut) adapt Les Stanford's book with a mix of fantasy and biography, never making the commitment to either that might have elevated the film beyond merely pleasant holiday distraction.

This is the second feature directed by longtime screenwriter Scott Frank (Minority Report, Marley & Me, Out of Sight, The Wolverine), whose directorial debut (The Lookout) was unprofitable but highly regarded.

The movie reunites Butler with Christian Gudegast, who was among the phalanx of credited screenwriters on London Has Fallen and now makes his directorial debut.