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Joe Eszterhas was the most successful screenwriter in Hollywood at the time, selling scripts for «Jagged Edge,» «Basic Instinct,» «Sliver» and, uh, «Showgirls» for record - breaking sums.

Dan is a successful screenwriter in his own right, and now Nightcrawler is his directorial feature debut (he's also the sole writer credited.)

Brooks plays Stephen Phillips, a once successful screenwriter who gets the axe by his movie studio because he has lost his edge.

Telling the story of Dalton Trumbo, the film will focus on one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters set against one of its darkest times.

Dalton Trumbo (1905 - 1976) was one of the most successful screenwriters in the country when he was subpoenaed in 1947 to testify before the House American Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigating citizens suspected of having Communist leanings.

Playwright Kenneth Lonergan became a successful screenwriter (Analyze This, Gangs of New York), and became a film director with 2000's You Can Count on Me.

In 1947, successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and other Hollywood figures get blacklisted for their political beliefs.

His friend Jack (Jeff Bridges), an even more successful screenwriter who has been inspired by her, recommends her, but to clinch the deal Steven has to messenger over some of his scripts, ply her with gifts, book her into the Four Seasons, and buy her groceries.

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A Riesling to Die The Wine Trail Mysteries # 1 By J. C. Eaton ISBN 978516107988 jceatonauthor.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Norrie Ellington is a successful screenwriter living in New York City.

Working as book publicists in Hollywood these many years has given us the ability to personally know and work with numerous movie and TV star celebrities as well as famous best seller celebrity authors, studio heads, producers, directors and many successful screenwriters as well.

Not exact matches

A vanity project from successful Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this film should really be much funnier than it is.

Though screenwriter Mark Malone isn't completely successful in avoiding the Obvious, there is much to cherish in Signs of Life.

The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

Successful Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is also a member of the Communist Party in the 1940s.

For example: last summer screenwriter / director Charlie Kaufman and former «Community» writer / producer Dan Harmon (two pretty successful guys in their own right) hit the crowdfunding site looking for backers to help get the stop - motion animated «Anomalisa» off the ground.

Tony Gilroy — «Michael Clayton» As this list will show as it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rarer.

The film is not always successful, as director Jean - Marc Vallée generally prioritises flair over feeling, though a committed and engaging central romance kept lively by screenwriter Julian Fellowes pulls the story on through.

In addition to being an actor and screenwriter, How I Met Your Mother alum Jason Segel is also a successful children's author.

Phyllis Nagy is a successful playwright, screenwriter and director whose latest screenplay is Carol.

Director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi previously collaborated to turn Kureishi's novel «The Buddha of Suburbia» into a successful serial for British television, which is exactly where «The Mother» also belongs, as periodic breaks for advertisements might well serve to cover up its somewhat plodding pace and occasionally aimless repetitions.

Director / screenwriter Niki Caro is one of the most successful filmmakers to emerge from New Zealand.

While promoting their big successful hit Deadpool, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Warnick talked about the sequel and revealed more details about the film.

TRUMBO: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs.

What made the film adaptations of her Potter books so successful was that she packed her stories to the gills with details and allowed an experienced screenwriter (usually Steve Kloves, who is an executive producer here) to pare them down, making them leaner and better.

As the title suggests, the film takes place in an idyllic Paris, where a successful but unhappy screenwriter, Gil (Owen Wilson), and his fiancée, Inez (Rachel McAdams), are on vacation with her parents.

Synopsis: The successful career of Hollywood screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, comes to an end when he's blacklisted in the 1940s for being a Communist.

It's a testament to The Howling «s quality that the main creative team behind it went on to even bigger accomplishments later in their careers — Joe Dante directed the hugely - successful Gremlins for Steven Spielberg, Sayles became a highly respected independent filmmaker and Oscar - nominated screenwriter, and Bottin would be nominated for an Academy Award six years later for his work on Legend, before being awarded a Special Achievement Oscar in 1991 for his spectacular makeup effects on Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall.

The successful marriage of director Ron Howard (Ransom, Apollo 13) with screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Fathers» Day, A League of Their Own), who joined forces for Night Shift, Splash, and Parenthood has finally encountered it's first dud.

The successful collaboration between star Ryan Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick set a new standard for comic book accuracy in film, and they did it with an R - rating and a $ 58 million budget to boot.

And can you please tell us what makes your collaboration with screenwriter Satoko Okudera, who you've worked with for all your major features, so successful?

In what the screenwriters feel is a necessary subplot, one of crewmen (Affleck, Phantoms) is getting it on with his Stamper's daughter (Tyler, U Turn) and they will soon be married should the mission be successful.

Nicolas Cage plays a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman who's stuck in his attempt to adapt a bestseller; it doesn't help when his successful brother (also played by Cage) shows up.

Within the loose narrative framework of people finding their way to one big Big Apple bash on the Eve of 1982, Garcia and screenwriter Shana Larsen, both first - timers, do come up with one completely successful plot thread: that of platonic friends / roommates Kevin (Paul Rudd) and Lucy (Courtney Love).

The Woman (Director: Lucky McKee; Screenwriters: Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee)-- When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to «civilize» the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.

It's an acknowledged classic now, but this fourth feature from director Martin Scorsese and the third produced screenplay from critic turned master screenwriter Paul Schrader was as controversial in the bicentennial year of 1976 as successful movies get.

But Graham as a would - be screenwriter, Stephanie Beatriz as a modern - day witch, and Angela Kinsey as a successful fashion designer create such unique, relatable characters and have such great chemistry together that their struggles to rise from being doormats to door openers make for a really fun ride.

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I've had a modestly successful career as a screenwriter & director, but as the film business changed, dramatically, 6 years ago, I knew it was time to return to my roots and write novels.

A Long Island native, McVey is also a successful artist, model, performer, entrepreneur, and screenwriter working out of NYC.

Sole arbitrator of dispute between suddenly successful actress / screenwriter and her former personal manager

Not only is Fifer successful as a humanitarian, he is also achieving notoriety as a Hollywood screenwriter.