Sentences with phrase «into feature writing»

Knight has made a career of following his own interests, cutting his teeth in spoof comedy, creating the original British edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and parlaying that success into his feature writing debut, the black - market organ harvesting drama Dirty Pretty Things.

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Before you start writing, list all of your features and specs, and then translate them into benefits.

But, there is life after death: «Today, in an act of radical design surgery, Randhurst is being remade into an open - air, mixed - use development that will have many features of a traditional downtown, including shops, movie theaters, offices and a hotel,» the Tribune writes.

Now, the feds are asking a federal judge in California to force Apple to write special software that will override those encryption features in order to peer into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

«In the coming months, privacy controls that are now in 20 places on Facebook's app will be merged into a single page, and will include what the company says will be easier - to - comprehend features that explain how the company is using a person's data,» The Washington Post writes.

Streaming service Netflix said on Tuesday it had acquired the rights to a book written by two German investigative journalists and was turning it into a feature movie to be produced by John Wells.

Now the quite distinctive feature of this pioneering venture into history writing is the way in which the Yahwist led his readers» attention away from the ancient practice of turning to the priests and cultic practices for discerning the will of the gods.

In our continued feature, our partners from www.freshmanutd.com have written this article to tell us about their three biggest threats, heading into this tough fixture.

Then look at who compiles the guides or writes the features — a little bit of Googling should produce an email address for you to add into your mailing list.

His most recent, No Regrets Parenting — Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2012), was the featured cover story in Parents magazine (March, 2012); editor - in - chief Dana Points wrote, «Dr. Rotbart's book turned my head around.»

Written by the incredibly talented Deborah Blum, Elemental is no longer updated but features a colorful variety of scientific explorations into the murky world of poisons and toxicity.

The reason I chose this as a topic was because I write this monthly feature that tracks how a technology starts its life from basic science, how it's transferred from basic science findings into the early phases of the technology, and this is a classic example because it goes from an understanding about how evolution works all the way to the early phases of developing a drug.

Instead she specialises in features, which she says «suit my temperament better:» As they rarely deal with groundbreaking news, which adds pressure to publish quickly, more time and research goes into writing a feature.

Written by natural beauty advocate Kim Wallace of Kansas City, kimberlyloc.com features natural beauty product reviews and glimpses into the life of a busy beauty addict.

A typical example of the mid -»80s «Rat Pack» film, Oxford Blues featured a soundtrack with several forgettable rock songs written expressly for the movie, interjected at intervals into the narrative through music video - style sequences.

While Dippold unfortunately gave into stereotypes and cliches in her feature film writing debut, the characters» free - spirited nature did garner genuine laughs.

All the original music for the film was written by Hawkes, and I instantly wanted to pair the movie into a double feature with Zoe Lister - Jones» «Band Aid» from last year (another terrific movie about the healing power of music).

I need to find the man who helps write these kinds of movies so I too can write awful premises and get them made into feature length films.

It is a bold move, as The Black List goes from championing well written scripts to becoming an active cog in getting them turned into feature films.

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The trailer also includes scenes of the story that is inserted into the main narrative, a story written by Jake Gyllenhaal's character that will feature most of the supporting cast and serves as a possible threat to his ex-wife, played by Amy Adams.

He also talked about the experience of being a part of the highly successful The Hangover franchise, whether he and Todd Phillips took the criticism of the second film into account when writing The Hangover Part III, making films for audiences to enjoy, and the animated feature Turkeys (featuring the voices of Amy Poehler, Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson), which he's writing and producing.

If it's true that Atkinson was recently motivated by the stateside failure of this very film to check himself into an Arizona rehab centre for depressed celebrities (and frankly, don't blame audiences — distributor Universal didn't exactly tax themselves advertising Johnny English to domestic moviegoers), I hope his caretakers remind him in haste that none of Monty Python's features grossed an enviable sum abroad, that the James Bond franchise has already satirized itself into the ground (it's no casual point that Johnny English was co-scripted by the same writing team behind The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), and that his first problem is trying to please a country that opens rehab centres for depressed celebrities.

-- Courtney Hunt wrote and direction this feature about a working poor single mom (Melissa Leo) who enters into an unexpected partnership with a Native American women (Misty Upham).

Extras: «Lucy Mazdon on Henri - Georges Clouzot»: The French cinema expert and academic talks at length about the films of Clouzot and the troubled production of «Inferno»; «They Saw Inferno,» a featurette including unseen material, providing further insight into the production of «Inferno»; filmed introduction by Serge Bromberg; interview with Serge Bromberg; stills gallery; original trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil; First Pressing Only: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Ginette Vincendeau.

Comics / actors Jordan Peele and Keegan - Michael Key star in the film, which was also written by and directed by «Key & Peele» veterans making the leap into features.

«The Edge of Seventeen» was written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (it's her first feature), with James L. Brooks serving as its lead producer, and it's a teen movie that starts off funny ha - ha but turns into something more like a light - fingered psychological thriller.

Season 3, Episode 1 Featuring: Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), Alice Eve (Star Trek: Into Darkness) Directed by: Joe Wright Written by: Michael Schur, Rashida Jones

Notwithstanding a few forays into the mainstream, Linklater has continued to run variations on what he wrote about that first feature: «A film locked in with the moment and place of its making.»

Two out - of - work actors searching for a new project, Michael Godere and Ivan Martin, took matters into their own hands when they wrote the feature - length screenplay for Loitering with Intent, with parts for themselves and their two famous friends, Marisa Tomei and Sam Rockwell.

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).

• Carrie Fisher has officially blamed George Lucas for inspiring her writing career because his Star Wars dialogue was so terrible • Johnny Depp and Amber Heard made some sort of weird apology video for that dog business in Australia • Adapting animated features into Broadway musicals isn't just for Disney anymore.

But despite her having won an award for the best student film, she subsequently has a hard time getting a studio exec to take a serious look at the script she's written and is ready to turn into a full - length feature.

Featuring a great soundtrack exclusively written by its star, with inspired and slightly amateur musical numbers, «Dancer In The Dark» moves headlong into to the rare shock ending that will leave you in tears.

The story, written by Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan (who also co-wrote the scripts of Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) and Michael Arndt, features some smart self - referential moments with refreshing efforts to ground the characters deeper than ever into this faraway galaxy, from a long time ago, without forgetting a delightful dollop of humor.

Damien Chazelle may have scripted one of the more inadvertently humorous titles in recent memory («The Last Exorcism II»), but his heart is clearly in musicals, not comedy: «Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,» the fractured romance he wrote and directed in 2009, featured jazz trumpeter Jason Palmer, a buoyant score by Justin Hurwitz and cast members breaking into down - market dance numbers in the middle of a restaurant kitchen.

Both are based on well - regarded plays designed for small casts eating one another in claustrophobic environments, both point to the fallacy that a good stage play needs to be expanded when transformed into feature film — if the writing is caustic and vital enough, it can by itself open up limitless interiors.

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Written and directed by Fred Cavaye, the picture features another desperate protagonist taking the law into his own hands with a sense of urgency due to the dire consequences apt to transpire should he involve the police in the resolution of the matter.

The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.

He and his producing partner Benedict Carver have inked a deal to turn the feature film into a series with Hayter writing the pilot.

Known for his acting chops in Art School Confidential, The Social Network and more recently, a stint on «The Handmaid's Tale,» Max Minghella got into the vocation of filmmaking with Teen Spirit — a feature film debut he also wrote and which becomes one of several 2018 projects for American independent swiss army knife actress Elle Fanning.

His promise was to make the written story of Mary Poppins into a feature film.

Featuring a script written by Arcel, Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind), Jeff Pinker (The 5th Wave) and Anders Thomas Jensen (The Salvation), this movie feels as if all involved were responsible for crafting a handful of ten minutes scenes that they'd all figure out how to combine into a cohesive narrative whole at a later date.

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.

Featuring a sublime, albeit brief, supporting role for Juliette Binoche, the film's breakout sensation is dancer Anastasia Shevtsova, the actress connecting with the material so seamlessly the line between her performance and the character as written in the script vanishes into invisibility almost immediately.

Director Spike Jonze's commercial for Apple's HomePod, Michael Walsh writes, «features singer - songwriter and dancer FKA Twigs as an exhausted worker bee who gets transported from her small apartment into a sprawling land of color and possibilities while listening to the new song»Til It's Over» by Anderson.

Thomas McCarthy, a busy actor (he played the corrupt young Baltimore Sun reporter on the last season of HBO's The Wire), has written and directed two features — The Station Agent (2003) and now The Visitor — and in each he's excelled at pulling actors into his stories with roles written especially for them.

The PowerPoint works for two lessons: a lesson on the character of Spiros, focusing on how we understand character through Durrell's language choices and a lesson on writing in Durrell's style, putting the students» new vocabulary and awareness of descriptive language features into action.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 26 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 44 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (6 sheets) * Copies of 17 full DVD packages (of various genres) to offer pupils choice for their controlled assessment Unit's lessons include: * Huge introductory quiz - history of film; the film industry; film terminology; camera shots; film genres * Mapping film gratifications * Mapping generic and genre - specific DVD package features * AfL activity - improving a controlled assessment response * Step - by - step analysis of DVD packages (CA practice) * Designing a DVD package based on a film trailer (CA practice) * Writing a critical commentary (CA practice) * Formal controlled assessment