Sentences with phrase «into screenplays for film»

The newest slate of contributors includes 11 notable authors who have been widely recognized in popular culture not only for their bestselling novels, but also for how their works have transcended the page into screenplays for film and / or television.

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Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

Though Strouse reportedly based his screenplay on his own difficulties making a name for himself as a playwright early in his career, the film's look into the life of struggling artist Jessica James (Jessica Williams) feels familiar at best.

If Tarantino fails to gain entrance into the Original Screenplay and Director categories (which would be understandable after all the shade his controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the Best Picture field isn't big enough to support this, the film should likely still compete for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score honors.

Release Date: After winning Un Certain Regard for his 2009 film Dogtooth, Lanthimos premiered ALPS at Venice in 2011 (where it won Best Screenplay), before tapping into the Cannes main comp (taking the Jury Prize) in 2015.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

As for «Happy - Go - Lucky,» I think it may creep into Best Actress and screenplay (I've seen it and think it's a fine film), but I kept the list at U.S. releases thus far.

Each year we get a master list of all the eligible films and then need to divide the titles into Adapted and Original for the screenplay...

Aided by an excellent screenplay and assured direction from Nicole Holofcener, Lovely and Amazing is a film that plays for catharsis and empathy and achieves a good draught of both, content to leave expeditions into stickier climes to more serious - minded films.

In honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy Awards, where it's nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie's screenplay, and much more.

You've seen it all before, especially if you are familiar with William Douglas - Home's play, «The Reluctant Debutante,» which was also made into a movie back in 1958, and the screenplay for that film provides the backbone for What a Girl Wants (I assume the name change is meant to appeal to the aforementioned young girls familiar with the Christina Aguilera song of the same name.)

Brandon and I later both met with and talked with director Derek Cianfrance about the 12 years of work he put into making this film, his real life inspirations for the screenplay, and so much more.

He has just made his first venture into film — writing the screenplay for What's New Pussycat?

Writer - director Sara Colangelo expands her 2010 short film Little Accidents into her first full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay.

There even seems to be a chance for this to sneak into Screenplay contention, as certain animated films have before.

Think dating advice from He's Just Not That Into You in reverse, of which both screenplay writers of «Single,» Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, also have writing credit for the film.

If not for the fact that the same actors are playing the same characters, one really could look at this movie as its own entity (The screenplay may have been co-written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, who also wrote the script for the first film, but it often feels as if the characters have been transplanted into the screenplay for an unrelated story — perhaps one written by the other co-screenwriters Christian Gudegast and Chad St. John).

Francis Coppola's (he dropped the «Ford» in the»80s) Life Without Zoe (34:19) is the film's insignificant weak link, although it is noteworthy for being the first writing credit of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who has since blossomed into an esteemed director herself and an original screenplay Oscar winner.

She has written screenplays in the past, including the 2011 «Fright Night» remake, and rather than necessarily seeing the books «Sharp Objects» and «Dietland» as one - off films, she saw the open - ended possibilities for making them into series.

Elmore Leonard, the revered crime author who died Tuesday at age 87, was well known in Hollywood circles, either for his books that got adapted into films or for his own screenplays.

Nominated for two Oscars (original screenplay and the since - retired best adapted score), the film celebrates the 50th anniversary of its original theatrical release this summer with admission into The Criterion Collection, who assign it spine # 711 in a single - disc DVD and the one - Blu - ray, two - DVD Dual - Format Edition reviewed here.

Having said that, it's foolish to start counting films out before the awards race has even kicked into first gear, so I'll just say that Sicario is certainly worthy of consideration for Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay for Taylor Sheridan, among others.

Comprised of eight featurettes breaking down the film's pre-production (adapted screenplay and designs), production (including special effects), the cast, and more, this is your first stop for insight into the film's making.

The film has been compared to Taxi Driver (for which Schrader wrote the screenplay) in terms of following a character's descent into madness in an insane world, but First Reformed feels like the premise has been updated and refined for the 21st century.

Given that film's failure, one can understand why Garland chose to take the pen into his own hands moving forward, continuing to work with Boyle by providing screenplays for

It also spun Spacey's career into a whole new orbit, earning him an Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor (the film also won an Oscar for Best Screenplay).

McCarthy, whose books have been adapted into such fantastic films as No Country for Old Men and The Road, sold the spec screenplay The Counselor...

Peele, who wrote and directed the film, could also slide into the best director or best screenplay category, the latter of which is usually more flexible in rewarding offbeat fare (like this year's nod for the beautifully deranged The Lobster).

Steven Knight's screenplay loses momentum once the couple settles into their homey London life, and for all Zemeckis's visual wizardry, the balance of the film never recaptures the thrill of their early adventures.

Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko), and Roberto Orci (Star Trek), masters of weaving time travel into the fabric of film, dissect the elements that make for a believable «operating system» when writing a comprehensible timeline for a screenplay.

Though Tarantino failed to gain entrance into the Original Screenplay and Director categories (which was somewhat understandable after all the shade his recent controversial interviews have thrown on his peers) and the film failed to crack the Best Picture field of ten, the film still predictably competed for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score honors.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

An award - winning screenwriter I had recommended was hired and he did an AWESOME job on the movie adaptation, the line producer determined the budget based on the screenplay, 100 % of the financing for film production has been secured, the list the producer wanted me to compile of possible actors for principle roles had been submitted; and just last week, the conceptual artist gave me a sneak peek of the preliminary visuals we might incorporate into the movie.

Trained as an actor before making the switch to writing, Nicholls's previous novels include Starter for Ten (originally published in the U.S. as A Question of Attraction), adapted into a film starring James McAvoy, for which Nicholls also wrote the screenplay; and The Understudy.

While writing, the artist was surprised by how easily the screenplay for Ray came to him, and he followed it up with two more interlinking scripts and a plan for fusing all three parts into a feature film.