Sentences with phrase «living as a screenwriter»

At the end of the 30s, he settled down in Hollywood, making a living as a screenwriter for hire.

Screenwriter Ashley Scott Meyers (@AshleyMeyers) discusses the critical writing lesson he learned over time, what it takes to make a living as a screenwriter, and what it felt like the first time one of his scripts was produced

Not exact matches

Today Levine is a novelist and screenwriter in Los Angeles, with a life - sized cardboard cutout of Paterno gazing over his shoulder as he types.

Mastai is a screenwriter and this book plays out like a movie (it is also no surprise the movie rights were quickly sold) as Tom Barrens time travels from the 2016 we thought we would be living in and then must time travel into the 2016 we really live in.

Bill is a comedian and actor and probably best known for his work on SNL (Saturday Night Live), while Maggie is a behind the scenes girl as a director and screenwriter.

First - time director / screenwriter Antonio Negret details the frightening trend of kidnapping in Columbia with this tense tale of a young photographer who is abducted and held for ransom as his desperate parents scramble to raise the money that could save their child's life.

As a screenwriter - for this picture at least - Devos puts too much stock in his visual style to carry the meaning of a thinly plotted, snail - paced slice - of - life.

Pellington and screenwriter Alex Ross Perry make their point within the film's first few minutes and keep making it — establishing that, yes, certain objects obviously do matter to us as harbingers of the narratives we assemble out of the incidents in our lives — as if they're the first artists to broach the subject.

In the vein of Stephen King's THE SHINING, a screenwriter's work seems to come to life (and death) as those around him suffer a similar horrifying fate.

There's little doubt that Creation opens with a fair amount of promise, as screenwriter John Collee initially focuses on Darwin's ongoing anguish over his scientific endeavors - with the vehemence of his colleagues (ie one tells him that he has effectively «killed god») causing a considerable amount of friction within his home life.

In a collaboration with frequent screenwriter Jonathan Raymond (the scribe behind her preceeding pair of features), the feature charts the progress of three couples — played by Blue Valentine's Michelle Williams and The Fourth Kind's Will Patton, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day's Shirley Henderson and Motherhood's Neal Huff, and Me And Orson Welles» Zoe Kazan and Knight And Day's Paul Dano — and their collective children as they follow the path set by their uncertain titular guide (Barney's Version's Bruce Greenwood).

Paul Schrader is an American filmmaker whose work as a screenwriter and director hold a significant place in the history of American cinema, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life in Four...

Love & Mercy, co-written by Oscar ® nominated screenwriter Oren Moverman, also stars Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, and is directed by Bill Pohlad, known as the Academy Award ® - nominated producer for such bold films as Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

There's no sense that you're watching something ripped from the headlines because nothing feels lived in, which is a shame as screenwriter Will Beall is an ex-detective.

Forster and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof have taken what used to be a character - driven zombie story, ripped out its brain and heart, and left it as nothing but a stumbling corpse kept alive on life support with a blockbuster budget.

I suppose screenwriter Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious) felt that art should imitate life, as he decided to give the Bride in Black a queer origin story about a gender - confused man who was driven insane by his abusive mother who desperately wanted a daughter.

Afternoon Delight / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jill Soloway)-- In this sexy, dark comedy, a lost L.A. housewife puts her idyllic life in jeopardy when she tries to rescue a stripper by taking her in as a live - in nanny.

Smartly, the filmmakers — who include screenwriters Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon (the latter directed the live - action Beauty and the Beast and Dreamgirls and wrote the film version of Chicago)-- also know how to keep a four - quadrant family musical from sinking into Chitty territory by employing devices that also will please the Broadway crowd, particularly the Bob Fosse - like opening number as well as sensational choreography throughout.

Along the way, we touch on the abandoned film project that Lee was working on with screenwriter Michael Arndt, how The Book Of Life affected this production, the evolution of the idea from the initial spark to the finished film, how Adrian Molina got involved in the project, how Lee Unkrich went from editor to director and how he edits his own films, how Darla got a credit as «Digital Angel» on the original Toy Story, hiding easter eggs in an international setting, and working with Michael Giacchino.

The film, written by first - time screenwriter Pat Rushin, centers on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a nervous, very bald man who lives in a church, has spent his life waiting for a mysterious phone call, and works as an «esoteric data» cruncher for the Mancorp corporation.

Somewhat surprisingly, though, the screenwriters lined up for their first picture are the guys behind the script for Joe Johnston's upcoming Captain America as well as the first two Narnia movies; yet perhaps less surprisingly for This Life collaborators, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely also wrote The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and collaborated with Cameron Crowe on a proposed, yet stalled, remake of the Ernst Lubitsch masterpiece Trouble in Paradise.

Screenwriters Jay Longino («Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation») and BenDavid Grabinski («Cost of Living») concoct a terminally scattershot and contrived script that lazily plays into the regurgitation of Chan's signature Asian crime - buster while remarkably making Knoxville even more grating (if that is possible) as the endangered rogue on the run from the baddies that want him eradicated.

The short story «Story of Your Life» by Ted Chiang serves as the basis for the film, which has been expanded by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (The Thing, Lights Out).

Liman and his screenwriter, Gary Spinelli (Chaos Walking, Stash House), apparently play fast and loose with the facts of Seal's life («dramatic license» in case you're wondering), but hew relatively close to the general contours and parameters of that same life, following Seal as he settles in Mena, Arkansas at the behest of his careerist handler, expands his drug - smuggling business with Schafer's willful ignorance as an ally, and turns a massive property (also bestowed by a generous federal government) into a training ground for the Contra rebels who fought against the Communist - allied Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in the «80s.

«Trumbo» tells the real - life story of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo «s (Cranston) as he fights to make movies during the Red Scare in 1940s and»50s Hollywood.

A number of movies helmed solely by men are also tackling feminist themes, as with Lelio's «Disobedience,» or Aaron Sorkin's «Molly's Game,» in which the Oscar - winning screenwriter makes his directorial debut with a poker - world drama centered on real - life competitor Molly Bloom, played by Jessica Chastain.

The Forbidden Room / Canada (Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Screenwriters: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk)-- A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

That status has been a big question mark more than once in the past couple years as directors and screenwriters have tried to develop a new Americanized live - action version of the classic manga and anime by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Mary Harron: A Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, known for her socially - conscious independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) about Valerie Solanas» life that led up to her failed assassination attempt of Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a film about the 1950s pinup model who became a cult icon of sexuality and helped popularize pornography.

Screenwriter David Collard is more familiar with inspirational sports drama formula than he is with military life, and as the adage says, write what you know.

In «Darkest Hour,» director Joe Wright («Atonement,» «Pride & Prejudice») and screenwriter Anthony McCarten focused entirely on a brief period in Churchill's life: the weeks in May and June 1940, as Churchill ascends to prime minister and fends off politicians on his own side wanting to make a peace deal with Hitler in the days leading to the Allied retreat at Dunkirk.

Chartering the life of this little - known tale is Stephen Gaghan («Syriana»), who has always excelled as a screenwriter and whose few turns as a director have been greatly rewarding.

That backdrop allows the screenwriters to explore their mysterious main character in more detail as he brings his cinematic vision to life.

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

We've got our first look at Meryl Streep in what will presumably be her next Oscar - nominated role as a hard - rocking front - woman in director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody's upcoming comedy Ricki and the Flash... In a film loaded with music and live performance, Streep stars as Ricki, a guitar heroine who gave up everything -LSB-...]

For the screenplay, he enlisted a real - life cop, Robert Souza, who ironically has a side job of his own as a screenwriter, and together they made a modestly entertaining throwaway thriller.

Watching Disney's team eventually chip away at Travers» tough facade to win her trust provides just one of the film's many joys as Disney (Tom Hanks), Mary Poppins screenwriter Don Digradi (Bradley Whitford), and song writing brothers Richard and Robert Sherman (Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak), bring the children's movie to life before our eyes while providing delightful behind - the - scenes insight into many of the iconic film's most memorable moments.

The already much - missed John Hurt bids us a particularly poignant farewell — at least as a leading man — in That Good Night, playing an ageing and irascible screenwriter living in rural Iberian luxury with his much younger second wife (Sofia Helin from TV's The Bridge) and, oh yes, a secret terminal illness.

Screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman team up for the third time with Tully, the story of a woman whose life seems out of her own control as she prepares to give birth to her third child.

Puzzle / U.S.A. (Director: Marc Turtletaub, Screenwriter: Oren Moverman, Producers: Peter Saraf, Wren Arthur, Guy Stodel)-- Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world — where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.

Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living in the Hollywood Hills.

Knight of Cups — ** 1/2 OUT OF 4 Legendary director Terrence Malick («Badlands», «Days of Heaven») began his career as a philosophy professor and his latest film is an existential examination of the hedonistic lifestyle of a frustrated screenwriter living... Continue reading →

But the extra time we spend with the hotshots is well worth it, as Kosinski and screenwriters Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer take us inside the family lives of Marsh and McDonough.

«Tragedy Girls» (Canada, USA) Director: Tyler MacIntyre, Screenwriters: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre, based on an original screenplay by Justin Olson A twist on the slasher genre following two budding teenage sociopaths who use their online show about real - life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into a frenzy, cementing their legacy as modern horror legends.

Halfway There (Director: Rick Rosenthal, Screenwriter: Nick Morton)-- When recovering addict Jimmy Bishop finds his sober living facility teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, he is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.

Director Cohen («The Fast and the Furious») and screenwriters Marc Moss and Kerry Williamson weave in as bland a home - life as imaginable for Cross, with his perfect wife (Carmen Ejogo), their perfect kids and his perfect live - in mom (Cicely Tyson).

The New York Times review called it «as generic as the bullet points in a gay rights brochure» and declared that «the lives behind this movie deserve better», laying some of the blame with screenwriter Ron Nyswaner.

An attendant yakker stitches together non-scene-specific snippets from director Beresford, producer Lili Zanuck, and playwright / screenwriter Alfred Uhry, who reveals that the story was based on his grandmother and her relationship to her driver and, later, sort of defends not telling anything about Hoke's life as not believing that his life was as dramatically interesting as Hoke and Daisy's life together.

Private Life / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Tamara Jenkins, Producers: Anthony Bregman, Stefanie Azpiazu)-- A couple in the throes of infertility try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper into the weird world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.

That's why many began looking out for Live By Night, a venture that sees him prominently being featured as a director, screenwriter and actor.