Sentences with phrase «in screenplay writing»

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

He's also dabbled in screenplay writing, and once had a screenplay optioned by Mr. Important Hollywood Director.

Not exact matches

«None of the versions of the screenplay that Jay Cocks and I wrote were in any way influenced by or based upon [their work].»

But the special purpose entity created for the production, in tracing the chain of title on «Silence,» became aware of a 2002 agreement that Cecchi Gori had made with an individual named Michael Gordon to write the «Silence» screenplay.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

Van Dyke was director of the Friends Church media department when he wrote the screenplay, but his boss, Creative Arts Pastor Brent Martz (you met him earlier in this story) threatened to fire him if he didn't give him 50 % co-writer credit, the lawsuit said.

In defending his interpretation the screenplay writer erroneously argued that the Gospel writers, after all, were writing «200 years» after the event, and then proceeded to confuse the virginal conception with the «immaculate conception».

It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.

The latest release has all of the original cast members returning (with star and Academy Award ® nominee Nia Vardolos again writing the screenplay) to sling their Greek wisdom and zingers on anyone and everyone in their line of fire.

In the screenplay I'm writing, they do it with Puig.

Lee, who also wrote the screenplay for Frozen, is also known for her writing in Wreck - It Ralph and Zootopia.

Bell admits she wasn't coming from an open - minded place when she started writing the screenplay (she chose a contract of seven years is because she heard about German politician Gabriele Pauli's call for a renewable seven - year contract in 2007).

She is an ambitious mom who recently wrote her first screenplay for a project in a screenwriting class at the local college and, on a whim, submitted it to a writing contest.

«Where a staffer, either mid-level or top, goes on to be in very high elective office and has to work with a former boss — you could write a screenplay about it,» said someone close to both de Blasio and Cuomo.

Given that Carl Sagan helped to write the screenplay, it's no surprise that it is well grounded in real ideas.

Play in a band, write screenplays, work in film and live each day one day at a time.

In my free time I like to work on my screenplay that I am writing, still trying to get it produced.

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But they escape and make their way to Basra, where Ahmad, now living as a beggar, meets and falls in love with the Princess (June Duprez), who has been betrothed by her father the Sultan (Miles Malleson, who also wrote the screenplay) to Jaffar.

Over the next 16 years, until Biró's death in 1948, he shared with Korda the intellectual control of the company that they'd both founded and, in conjunction with such writers as Arthur Wimperis and Miles Malleson, wrote the screenplays to a string of notable movies.

Sea currently resides in New York City and is writing an original screenplay and working collaboratively on the performance, film, and music project, THE EXCITING CONCLUSION.

Ringwald, who had learned French while attending a French high school in Los Angeles, remained there, dividing her time between reading (she has been a voracious reader since childhood when she and her siblings would read stories to her blind father), writing short stories and screenplays, cooking, and hanging out with her French husband.

Adapted briskly and faithfully by Steve Kloves (who wrote all but the fifth Potter screenplay), the movie jumps right in where the last one ended - with Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) acquisition of the all - powerful Elder Wand.

Stir of Echoes was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, whose work inspired such disparate films as Somewhere in Time and The Incredible Shrinking Man; it was written and directed by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park and Mission: Impossible.

At the same time, Cooper (who also wrote the screenplay) deserves credit for not providing much in the way of easy resolution and answers in Hostiles.

The musical's original creative team was brought into the screenwriting process and asked to write entirely new lyrics to fill in the screenplay's original narrative which even called for a new song («Suddenly»).

Winslet is at once wonderful and yet enigmatically blank — very much as written in Haynes's and Jon Raymond's screenplay.

Pearce has also written a well - carpentered screenplay; there are some very big scenes and big moments here — sometimes too big — but he gives us a carefully crafted dramatic setup, an intriguingly curated selection of suspects for the crime and all of it building to a fascinating, finely balanced ambiguity in the movie's climactic stages.

The screenplay, written by Riko Sakaguchi and Yonebayashi, is based on the 1971 children's novel The Little Broomstick by British author Mary Stewart, and the movie's story seems to exist in a unique place, with the characters appearing British but drawn in that specific style of Japanese animation, while the backdrops look as if they could be set in any place where there are fields and forests and farms and tiny villages down some dirt road.

The problem is the screenplay, written by first - timer Dorothy Blyskal, who can't overcome the daunting hurdle that would face anyone trying to adapt this incident into a film: there's no story to tell until the thing happens, and once it happens, it's over in a few minutes.

With an ensemble cast of mostly all actresses lead by the Radiant Penelope Cruz, Almodovar has written his sharpest, funniest screenplay yet, holding back on his usual outrageous elements in order to let the talented ladies of the cast work their magic with his words.

Surprisingly limiting itself to a single passing prison - rape joke, the screenplay (written by Reynolds himself, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) starts to fill in the outlines of an actual moral arc here, as Randall looks to Deadpool as a surrogate father figure, while Deadpool rebuffs every opportunity to play the protector — at least until the arrival of Cable (Josh Brolin, finally giving this franchise an iron - sphinctered straight man), a bio-enhanced super-soldier from the future, who smashes his way into the Ice Box intent on killing Randall.

A majestic Mafia epic starring Brando as well as Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall, The Godfather was declared an instant classic, and its stature only grew in the years following its initial appearance.Coppola's next move was to write the screenplay for the 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

It comes from a screenplay by the Oscar - winner Diablo Cody, who wrote Juno and Young Adult; it's her third time working with Reitman and her second time working with star Charlize Theron, who starred in Young Adult.

This is Mr. Martin's movie, and he brings to it the ingeniously dopey presence that's become his trademark; he easily carries even the most dubious moments in the rather jumbled screenplay, which was written by Mr. Martin, Mr. Reiner and George Gipe.

During this time, he also wrote, produced, and starred in the comedy The Wrong Guy, which won Best Screenplay at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

Niall Leonard, who wrote the screenplays for both the «Fifty Shades Darker» and «Fifty Shades Freed» adaptations, far too heavily treaded on the dominant - submissive relationship that drove the initial spark between the two protagonists in «Fifty Shades of Grey.»

Under more sure - handed directors, some of Game Night could have certainly been more howlingly funny, but I feel like John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (who also wrote the screenplay together), are becoming a stronger force in comedy.

During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True Romance, in 1987.

Beatty, who, along with directing and starring in the movie, wrote the original story, co-wrote the screenplay, and co-produced it (he probably worked as a Foley walker when no one was looking), plays the likeable but maddening Bulworth as though he had prepared for this part all his acting life.

But in «The Crossing Guard,» for which Mr. Penn wrote the screenplay, he and Mr. Nicholson seemed boxed in by a story that was basically a fancily embellished cat - and - mouse game with pretentious quasi-religious overtones.

As a result, the plot of the screenplay by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (both of whom also wrote the original) comes across as a series of false starts and ends, as the extent of Shen's plan unfolds in chunks along with the facts about Po's past, and since the details of both are foregone conclusions from the beginning, the simple story feels drawn out for little effect.

Nash wrote the screenplays to such films as The Sainted Sisters (1948) and Porgy and Bess (1959) throughout the late»40s and into the 1950s, and continued to exercise his pen until his final screenplay, Between the Darkness and the Dawn, in 1985.

Incredible in its verisimilitude, Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay is smart, incisive, and passionately written.

Written by Phillips and Scot Armstrong, one can imagine the film's screenplay being written in between bouts of bong hits and beer funnel coWritten by Phillips and Scot Armstrong, one can imagine the film's screenplay being written in between bouts of bong hits and beer funnel cowritten in between bouts of bong hits and beer funnel contests.

Written by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by BrucWritten by Alex Ross Perry (who's maybe the last human being on Earth whose name you'd expect to see in the closing credits) and filled with all of the sincerity that he's left out of the savagely caustic screenplays he's written for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Brucwritten for himself, «Nostalgia» begins with an insurance agent named Daniel (John Ortiz) visiting Ronald, a curmudgeonly old hoarder played by Bruce Dern.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roleIn addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic rolein the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

I guess it speaks to a simpler time in film, where economy of writing wasn't of absolute importance and not every moment in the screenplay had to fulfill some greater mechanical purpose, but it stresses its point in an awfully longwinded way.

Married three times, Virginia Bruce's first husband was silent screen idol John Gilbert, with whom she costarred in Downstairs (1932), an obscure but lively melodrama for which Gilbert had written the screenplay.

Pellington is working from an uncharacteristically sentimental screenplay from Alex Ross Perry, known for his biting, incisive and often merciless portrayals of human nature in the independent films he's written and directed himself, including «The Color Wheel» and «Queen of Earth.»