Sentences with phrase «in screenplay»

Still working on that novel and still trying to get anyone to be interested in that screenplay.

In the screenplay, the group's Cold War hysteria about fluoride in drinking water being a Communist plot to poison Americans triggers a nuclear holocaust.

Next up for this passionate animal advocate is bringing his beloved Mutts characters to life in a screenplay currently in development with Fox Animation, which Patrick calls «entertainment, but with a strong animal message».

In my screenplay, Lane is lucky, because he has a friend like Mindy to push him along.

In a screenplay scene, you don't have the luxury of a lot of words.

Pen Densham — Author of Riding The Alligator, Strategies for a Career in Screenplay Writing, (and not getting eaten).

Did you participate in the screenplay, and what are your impressions of it?

Mrs Ross made her first appearance in a screenplay Penney wrote about the 18th century Highland Clearances, when much of the population of the Scottish Highlands was forcibly evicted from the land.

Having said that, he wryly admits that the experience of turning in a screenplay and having the director «challenge every word» can really «focus one's attention.»

• According to an article in Entertainment Weekly, Gillian Flynn has changed the ending of Gone Girl in her screenplay adpatation.

The terrific cast make up for the shortcomings in the screenplay with the best of the bunch being Robert Sheehan, Magda Szubanski and Kate Box.

In the screenplay by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), no one ever preaches or speaks ill of Nixon, his activities or his policies.

At no point in the screenplay is an opportunity seized to truly pass judgment on the United States» presence and actions there.

This leads to precisely the kind of chase scene and shootout that Charlie originally wants to avoid in his screenplay.

The film, about Boston Globe reporters who investigated and revealed a massive cover - up within the Catholic church, also scored in Screenplay and Ensemble and director Tom McCarthy earned 2nd place.

There were few true surprises in the screenplay of Sabotage.

One thing I love in the screenplay is that there's a lot of strong female parts.

The fact that there aren't any other memorably rendered characters to truly bounce off of McConaughey, despite a talented ensemble, only serves to stress this cryptic deficiency in the screenplay, whipping as it does through many years, and the movie's central performance.

With three prior nominations in the acting categories and a win in Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon now has his first Best Picture nomination, as producer of the Casey Affleck - starring Manchester by the Sea.

Woody Allen directed Irrational Man in his usual slow tempo, in a screenplay which is character - driven, but I found the dialogue lacking sharpness and humor.

The result of which is a highly stylized picture with more swooping camera effects than you can shake a stick at, well - filmed action sequences, and some of the worst dialogue ever written in a screenplay with perhaps the dumbest excuse for an action movie plot.

Morgan Freeman, Carey Mulligan, Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz were the only actors I got correct, while in the screenplay categories it was just «An Education,» «A Serious Man» and «Up.»

Dark Universe, in a screenplay by Michal Grillo, reportedly revolves around a DC team of John Constantine, Swamp Thing, Deadman, Zatanna and Etrigan the Demon and would play a major role in the new DC.

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.

In the screenplay, credited to Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay - Abaire, the strong storm blows Franco's magician con - man into the distant land where he encounters talking China dolls, flying monkeys and several witches, including Mila Kunis» Theodora, Rachel Weisz's Evanora and Michelle Williams» sunny Glinda.

Peele has the edge, however, since he has been winning in the screenplay categories with many of the critic associations.

But the actors and the gorgeous scenery are mired in a screenplay which tames the wild lives of these brilliant writers and passionate lovers into a far too conventional drama that lacks the spark of the very people who inspired it.

In fact, all of the mothers in Bad Moms are treated in this exaggerated way, basically coming off as female versions of the man - children Lucas and Moore previously essayed in their screenplay for The Hangover (with Kathryn Hahn, as the proudly oversexed Carla, given Zach Galifianakis - style scene - stealing honors).

The only guy I don't really know yet is James Mangold, and I wasn't involved in that screenplay — though I read it and loved it.

Delivered to the carrier, he pauses for a second because he wants to smell the scent of a warship, and we're reminded that John Milius, who directed this movie, had a hand in the screenplay of «Apocalypse Now» with its immortal line «I love the smell of napalm in the morning.»

Moreover, it's great to have Goldie Hawn back, even if it makes you question what the acting veteran could've possibly seen in the screenplay of the film's potential to make a return to film for the first time in fifteen years.

My guess is that Henderson created backstories for each of her main characters, but without these backstories — which have been stripped away in the screenplay — it's very hard to care about the cardboard people who now inhabit the Ten Thousand Saints universe.

When it debuted at various festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, «Skeleton» received mostly positive reviews, with Variety critic Geoff Berkshire writing that «the biggest surprise for audiences expecting plenty of laughs will be just how effectively both thesps handle the weightier dramatic material in the screenplay... «The Skeleton Twins» captures the way siblings develop their own unique comedic shorthands in a way few films ever have.»

Eszterhas's rampant misogyny is once again evident in the screenplay, with almost every female character indulging in some deviant sexual behavior.

The mood is perfectly reflected in the screenplay by Charman and the Coens.

Hossein Amini, The Two Faces of January's writer - director, turned in the screenplay for Drive, the enthralling and utterly captivating film that somehow...

Instead, she becomes, in the screenplay by Elizabeth Meriwether, a warped, evil version of herself that plays with the feelings of poor, old, indefinably bland Adam, texting and calling him at all hours of the day and night, acting like they're in a relationship but saying they're not.

This time, in a screenplay that could have been confusing but moves confidently between different levels of the story, the crew of the Enterprise follows the evil Borgs back in time to the day before mankind made its first flight at warp speed.

Given the permissiveness of TV these days, there's not much here in the screenplay by Niall Leonard (aka the husband of the novelist E.L. James, aka Erika Leonard), leaving the credit for whatever is worthy about this sequel to production designer Nelson Coats and costume designers Shay Cunliffe and Karin Nosella.

But their supposed entanglement is just another dead end in a screenplay jam - packed with them.

Jillian Jacobs, Michael Reisz, Christopher Roach, and Jeff Wadlow (who is also the director) each had a hand in the screenplay, but you wouldn't guess it by how formulaic the story feels.

As choreographed by Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson in a screenplay credited to Ben Zazove, with another four writers receiving story credit, the gnomes possess all the sparkling personality and delightful individuality of paving stones.

Marshall Flores, proofreader and stats whiz and the first to call a potential win for Get Out in screenplay and its Best Picture nomination.

The Keystone Cops routine in the screenplay by rookie director Zach Golden wears thin pretty quickly, and the film doesn't have the satirical dexterity to generate any substance beyond its slapstick shenanigans.

However many holes there may be in the screenplay (not to mention some really horrid dialogue), Charlotte Gray does stand as a satisfactory film visually.

«La La Land» and «Moonlight» are practically neck - and - neck when it comes to wins for Best Picture and Best Director, but «Manchester by the Sea» is a clear favorite in the screenplay category with seven wins thus far (compared to its closest competitors that only have two).

Mayhem, and occasional hilarity, ensue, too often undercut by unnecessary sloppiness in the screenplay, which subverts its own tired premises for no particular reason.

Love & Mercy showed up in Screenplay and a Best Actor nomination for Paul Dano, surely to make a handful of Oscar pundits hopeful he can keep that ball rolling all the way to an Oscar nomination (in Supporting).

Billy tells Marty some good stories which he should put in his screenplay about the Jack O'Diamonds killer and a guy called the Quaker killer.

At the same time, in the screenplay by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and Krasinski, there are tactics to outlast the creatures when in their midst — it's related to a given noise's volume — which creates other pulse - quickening moments of near - miss panic.