Sentences with phrase «first feature script»

Kate: As my first feature script it was a boot camp.

This seems to be Michael Arndt's first feature script and whilst it's got its fair share of charm it's lacking anything remotely unique.

This is Leonard's first feature script.

Also, Rodrigo García directs the first feature script he's written since the underseen gem, Mother and Child (2009).

are their first feature scripts) and Drew Goddard (mostly known for his TV work).

It's a good mix of big names like Nick Hornby and Aaron Sorkin alongside upstarts like Emma Donoghue and the winner Phyllis Nagy (both Room and Carol are their first feature scripts) and Drew Goddard (mostly known for his TV work).

Not exact matches

Last year, a small movie studio even released what it claimed to be the first scripted feature film ever shot and released entirely on the messaging app.

In April, an upstart movie studio released what it claims to be the first ever scripted feature film shot and released entirely on the Snapchat social media app.

In 1972 — before the internet, before the porn explosion — Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace.

Danish documentarian Janus Metz - making his first feature, and working from a script by Ronnie Sandahl - feels the need to hold our hands and oversimplify these two titans of tennis.

From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted at this year's Sundance film festival to mostly positive reviews.

It was indeed a very daring script for a first feature, involving underage sex, suicidal tendencies, and incest.

Director Roger Michell is best known for the fluffy fantasy of «Notting Hill» (1999), targetted directly at an American market and presenting a view of London life whose only link to reality was the place names — but since then he has elaborated a much darker vision of romance in Britain's capital, first in the Hanif Kureshi - scripted taboo - breaker The Mother (2003), and now in «Enduring Love», starring Daniel Craig (who also featured in The Mother) and Rhys Ifans (here a million miles away from the comedy of «Notting Hill»).

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

I think the first time we tried to make [the feature], the script wasn't quite right.»

He was head of animation on the Oscar - nominated short Paper Man and is in production on his first feature, the Marc Haimes - scripted Nimona for Fox and producer Roy Lee.

Directed by Lee Unkrich with some of the warmth and imagination he brought to «Toy Story 3» (and co-directed by Adrian Molina, who wrote the script with Matthew Aldrich), «Coco» is the first of Pixar's 19 features to feature a non-white human protagonist, diversifying a company slate that has already proven a model of inclusivity with regard to talking fish, sentient toys and anthropomorphic cars.

The feature adaptation of Lore, a comic book from husband - and - wife team Ashley Wood and T.P. Louise, was first announced three years ago with Cory Goodman (Priest) and Jeremy Lott on board to write the script.

The script — the first feature one by Rajiv Joseph («Nurse Jackie») and complete novice Scott Rothman — gives Sonny an absurdly busy day both professionally and personally.

For his sophomore feature Alan Rickman has fashioned a spritely period romp, demonstrating a confident feel for the material — an original script from first - time screenwriter Alison Deegan.

In 1978, Douglas Adams penned the script for British radio an eccentric SF comedy entitled «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (or H2G2), and its success led to a run of five best - selling books (the first appearing in 1979), a BBC television series (1981), a computer game (1998), and now, over a quarter of a century after its first radio outing, a big - screen feature film.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

The movie is notable for featuring Stephen King's first film script.

In a twist that nods in the direction of «Midsummer» (apparently a key influence on the script by David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi and first - time feature director Gary Rydstrom), Roland, still bent on winning Marianne's hand and the crown that comes with it, decides to exploit the good - natured Sunny (Elijah Kelley), a diminutive, ebony - skinned elf who has unrequited feelings for Dawn.

The script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by first - time feature film writer, James Lapine.

The Pretty One, the first full length feature from AFI grad Jenée LeMarque from her Black List darling script, seems to have fallen into a few of these indie comedy traps, with it's subtlety and filtered reality, but was no less enjoyable to view, and sweet in it's presentation.

So we are all watching closely with Struck by Lightning, which is not only Colfer's feature debut, but also his first produced script.

Godless, the acclaimed new miniseries now streaming on Netflix, first came into being years ago when writer, director, and creator, Scott Frank wrote a feature script pitting Roy Goode (Jack O'Connell) and the town of La Belle against the wrath of Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels).

Paul McGuigan - famous for his work on «Victor Frankenstein», «Luke Cage» and» Sherlock» - is set to direct and executive produce and Travis Beacham who will serve as executive producer and wrote the original feature script, «A Killing on Carnival Row», which appeared on the very first installment of the Hollywood Blacklist in 2005.

The director rarely disappoints, and his co-screenwriter Mardik Martin comes with a fun fact that should be enough to hold us over until Venice likely offers us a synopsis: This his first feature film script in over 34 years.

Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.

I had the opportunity to talk to Alan Ball about Towelhead, his first feature - film script after American Beauty and his feature directing debut, when he presented the film at the Seattle International Film Festival in June, 2008.

I haven't read any of the books in author Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning «Southern Reach Trilogy,» of which Annihilation is the first installment, but from what I understand writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has reworked the material considerably as far as the script for his feature adaptation is concerned.

Braff co-penned the script with his brother Adam, which will also mark Braff's first feature directorial effort since 2004's «Garden State.»

Keyframe: Beneath is the first feature you've directed that is not from your own script.

As with Bourne, car chases and hand - to - hand fights are heavily edited, and quite exciting visually, though there is a curious lack of white - knuckle tension that should have resulted from the scenes had the script by first - time feature film scribe David Guggenheim spent more time with the characters to get us to care about their situations before throwing them on the run.

And it features a script by Clive Dawson, based on a Sydney Bounds short story, that is so familiar to genre enthusiasts by now that if you can't predict who lives, who dies first, even what the last shot will be, well, you just aren't paying attention.

Yes, having watched both films on the same day, my opinion may be slightly blighted by the original's far superiority, but the first film features such fine performances from the likes of Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and even John C. McGinley from a wonderful script by Stone and Stanely Weiser, this just didn't compare.

It reminded me of my first feature [«We Go Way Back»], about an older woman who sees her 13 - year - old self, but one of the thoughts that I had writing that script was, «Well, maybe it doesn't have to be her real self, but more of a proxy.

Martin's script (his first feature - length one) succeeds not because of the ethical rumination (which is incredibly familiar, especially when it comes to police dramas) but because it allows itself to study the reasoning for decent men to do things that seem to go against what others and they expect of them.

It is Hannah's first outing with a feature length script But, Singer won an Oscar for writing the Original Screenplay for «Spotlight.»

Glimpses from Pivot's first scripted drama series, «Fortitude,» featuring «Hunger Games» actor Stanley Tucci and «Game of Thrones» star Richard Dormer promise frozen Arctic tundras and plenty of suspicion.

Its other presumed best shot was in the Screenplay category, but the recent dustup over its (absurd) designation as an Adapted Screenplay that was, in fact, adapted from... itself (essentially, the feature script was written, then Chazelle adapted it into a short to sell the film, but since the short came out first, it's considered adapted from the short, even though the short was technically adapted from the unshot script.

is one of those hired gun Gilliam films, with a script by first time feature writer Pat Rushin.

The Levelling signals Hope Dickson Leach «s first foray into feature filmmaking with a hugely original piece which she both scripts and directs.

Having explored the criminal justice system in high - profile feature documentaries for more than two decades, Joe Berlinger is set to direct his first scripted true crime movie entitled «Facing the Wind,» which will star Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Evan Rachel Wood, Rita Wilson and Jennifer Beals, TheWrap has learned.

His first feature film script The Unknown Saint, which will be his debut feature, was awarded at the Locarno Film Festival and was selected at La fabrique du cinema du monde at Cannes.

Much of the humor in the late Stan Seidel's script derives from the three men's differing perceptions of Jewel, nicely brought to visual life by first - time feature director Harald Zwart.

The latter is documentarian Amy Berg's first fiction feature, and she works from a Nicole Holofcener script (adapted from Laura Lippman's novel).

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