Sentences with phrase «old screenwriter»

The 66 - year - old screenwriter worked on the money - spinning Marvel movie, which is based on neurosurgeon - turned - sorcerer Stephen Strange, and says he wants to be involved with the sequel, reported Female First.

Adapted by 89 - year - old screenwriter James Ivory, it exhibits that specific brand of watchable, genteel restraint that made Merchant Ivory the arthouse Marvel Studios of the 1980s and «90s.

I am a 27 year old screenwriter and music manager.

Not exact matches

A former St. Albert's classmate introduces Eddie to a screenwriter and website operator who asks Eddie whether he owns any pornographic home videos of his old girlfriend Martha Martin, who since her breakup with Eddie has skyrocketed to fame as the star of the cheesy NBC medical drama Dr. Drake.

Jeri Klein, a 36 - year - old social media manager and screenwriter, agrees.

After switching careers, going from on - the - go film producer to the more - sedentary role of screenwriter, the 36 - year - old from Los Angeles began to feel lethargic.

Plus the screenwriters and director Todd Phillips (Old School) throw their credibility card out the window in ridiculous scenes with taser - crazy cops hyped - up Asian mobsters and stereotypes run amok.

The four screenwriters (including the film's director, Chris Miller) can't seem to create much excitement in the warmed - over plot, instead relying on the same old shtick.

Now the New Zealand screenwriter Peter Jackson, who followed up the Lord of the Rings trilogy with King Kong and The Lovely Bones, has returned to his old hobbits, and in collaboration with Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro, has turned the initially modest The Hobbit into a full - scale trilogy of its own.

But it's when the devilish old Carrey materializes that the movie — which Mark Waters directed and is credited to three screenwriters — dares to be more than a greeting card.

One sister is a bitter screenwriter, another meets an older man she hopes will give structure to her disordered life, and a third must deal with a child - molesting ex-husband who has been paroled from jail and wants to reconcile with their son.

Original director Wes Craven and original screenwriter Kevin Williamson come back for more, and do so with the willingness of an entirely new cast and the old one, an unprecedented feat seeing as how the last film was made eleven years prior.

The film contains the same tacked - on humor, lame CGI that looks like it was from a 20 year old Pixar film, and characters that could not be more one - dimensional if the screenwriters tried.

One of the shining glories of the American musical, this 1952 feature was fabricated (by screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green) around a collection of old songs written by producer Arthur Freed and brought to bright, brash, and exuberant life by directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly.

In episode 102, several subjects attempt to will themselves to effect positive change in their lives, including a first - time screenwriter, a 13 - year - old girl, and a widow, with mixed results.

The 58 - year - old star was congratulated by co-star Margot Robbie and screenwriter Steven Rogers as she took to the stage at Sunday's 90th Annual Academy Awards.

Wedding bells threaten to break up three best friends» long - running bromance, but they aren't going down without a fight in Search Party, the directing debut of screenwriter Scot Armstrong (The Hangover Part II, Old School).

The honor makes the 39 - year - old star the first black screenwriter to ever win the award as he gave one of the best speeches of the night as he admitted he thought writing the film was «impossible.»

Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) / Italy (Director: Roberta Torre; Screenwriters: Roberta Torre and Laura Nuccilli)-- A 13 - year - old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.

Wright and the screenwriter Anthony McCarten turn that ideological fight into a swooning parable of courage in one's convictions and the necessity of standing up to extremism rather than trying to meet it halfway — a seemingly simple message that's delivered with old - fashioned, stiff - upper - lip panache.

The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Sara Colangelo, for her film The Kindergarten Teacher (Director & Screenwriter: Sara Colangelo, Producers: Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman - Keren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler)-- When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five year - old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child — spiraling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.

«When I was 16 years old, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different and I felt like I did not belong,» said the screenwriter.

As shooting continues, Mitchell and Laurel becomes lovers and this compromises the project — smitten Mitchell begins skewing scenes toward his lady, much to the dismay of the screenwriter and other cast members (Cliff De Young plays her older co-star).

Actor and screenwriter Paul Rudd picked up his 2018 Man of the Year award from the nation's oldest collegiate theatrical organization at Harvard University on Friday night.

From 1991's Los Angeles screenwriter drama Barton Fink to 2001's noir pastiche The Man Who Wasn't There, these brothers wear their old school influences proudly.

The disc comes with a feature commentary by the screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a new 2009 documentary The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style as well as more features that will make you want to wish you were old enough to have seen this one in the theatre.

Soderbergh and first - time screenwriter Coleman Hough weave the movie's manifold narrative strata into one another in ways reminiscent of Frederico Fellini's «8 1/2,» while feeling like off - the - wall, old school Soderbergh at the same time.

In a night free of upsets, some of my own favorite outcomes were entirely expected, whether it was «Call Me by Your Name» earning its screenwriter, 89 - year - old industry veteran James Ivory, his long - overdue first Oscar, or Mark Bridges winning costume design for his astute work on «Phantom Thread» (plus a jet ski for giving the night's shortest speech).

I Am Not a Witch / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Rungano Nyoni, Producers: Juliette Grandmont, Emily Morgan)-- After a minor incident, nine - year old Shula is exiled to a witch camp where she is told that if she escapes, she'll be transformed into a goat.

Based on a screenplay by A Monster Calls author and screenwriter Patrick Ness, the story follows Anya, an unpopular 16 - year - old who gets stranded in an underground cave where she rescues Emily (Roberts), the apparent ghost of a teenage girl who died a century earlier.

Director & Screenwriter: Kevin Mcmanus, Matthew Mcmanus For three 14 - year - old boys at St. Mark's Middle School, it's always a good day for a funeral.

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize ($ 20,000) Marjorie Prime / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Michael Almereyda)-- In the near future — a time of artificial intelligence — 86 - year - old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.

Jake Kasdan, a 22 - year - old first - time director and screenwriter, created the oddball private detective Daryl Zero in the new movie «Zero Effect» for Pullman.

Screenwriters - by - committee Keith Sharon, Alfred Gough, and Miles Millar, patching together an abominable iteration of the same old Lethal Weapon tropes, have conspired to get De Niro to immediately make 15 Minutes again (but as an alleged intentional comedy) and to continue Eddie Murphy's typecasting as an animated jackass.

Lucas» alter ego is Robert (Peter Sarsgaard, more Malkovichian than ever), a rising gay screenwriter who's in mourning for an older lover.

«Morris from America» / U.S.A., Germany (Director and screenwriter: Chad Hartigan)-- Thirteen - year - old Morris, a hip - hop loving American, moves to Heidelberg, Germany, with his father.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

The Quiet Ones leaps off from that premise — and markets itself with a «based on true events» pitch line — but after several screenwriters took their turns at the story, it ultimately veers far afield: University professor Joseph Coupland (played with a perfect blend intellectual arrogance and charismatic follow - me guruism by Jared Harris of Mad Men), brilliant but bristling at the restrictive old - school attitudes toward his groundbreaking case study, removes his star subject Jane Harper (Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke) to a deserted, dilapidated country estate to be studied by his collegiate team, including a randy post-Mod couple (Erin Richards and Rory Fleck - Byrne) and soft - spoken cameraman Brian (Sam Clafin of The Hunger Games).

Indeed, the fact that new Peter Parker is played by a 19 - year - old actor, thus putting him a little bit closer to Parker's age in the original 1962 comic, added to the dynamics of both the scenes and, per the screenwriters, the film overall.

The Dolby Surround soundmix is sharp and workmanlike — like the movie that it decorates, nothing remarkable, nothing jarring — while a feature - length commentary provided by Hackford and screenwriter Thomas Rickman is difficult to sit through, not for the fact of any dead spots (there aren't any), but for the way that Hackford likes to talk about how race was an issue in the Old South as though everyone else is an idiot.

Shamefully lazy in almost every way, you'll find yourself laughing more at the obvious use of old stock Navy footage for the external shots than anything the screenwriters are able to muster in this vapid script.

Bob and the Trees (Director: Diego Ongaro, Screenwriters: Diego Ongaro, Courtney Maum, Sasha Statman - Weil)-- Bob, a 50 - year - old logger in rural Massachusetts with a soft spot for golf and gangsta rap, is struggling to make ends meet in a changed economy.

First Girl I Loved (Director & Screenwriter: Kerem Sanga)-- Seventeen - year - old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school.

Princess / Israel (Director and screenwriter: Tali Shalom Ezer)-- While her mother is away from home, 12 - year - old Adar's role - playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory.

Screenwriter Bill Wittliff draws us into the world of Gloucester, Mass., the centuries - old fishing port where the Andrea Gail, a 72 - foot swordfishing boat, is ready to embark on a monthlong expedition to the Grand Banks.

Old pals: She walked the red carpet with acclaimed American screenwriter James Ivory, 89, who was nominated for his work on the screenplay and as producer for Call Me By Your Name

Cronies (Director & Screenwriter: Michael Larnell)-- Twenty - two - year - old Louis doesn't know whether his childhood friendship with Jack will last beyond today.

Morris from America (Director & Screenwriter: Chad Hartigan)-- Thirteen - year - old Morris, a hip - hop loving American, moves to Heidelberg, Germany, with his father.

Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan previously collaborated on Brick Lane (2007), an underrated adaptation of Monica Ali's novel about a Bangladeshi immigrant chafing against her arranged marriage to a much older Bengali in London.

The Fits (Director: Anna Rose Holmer, Screenwriters: Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis, Lisa Kjerulff)-- In this psychological portrait, Toni, an 11 - year - old tomboy, is assimilating into a tight - knit dance team in Cincinnati's West End when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, and her desire for acceptance is twisted.