Sentences with phrase «right screenplay»

Now, like I've said, I didn't like the comic book series that the sequel is based off on, but with the right screenplay and director, the tonal issues and sloppy narrative can easily be fixed.

A collaboration between director and star, with the right screenplay, should eventually produce something brilliant.

Their collaboration should, with the right screenplay, eventually produce something brilliant.

A mix of Risky Business and Something Wild, The Girl Next Door tries valiantly to be something a little deeper than your typical sex comedy, and as competent as Luke Greenfield is as the director, he just didn't have the right screenplay to ever make his ambitions soar.

Not exact matches

Coogler's screenplay (co-written by Joe Robert Cole) gets T'Challa and Erik's conflict exactly right.

Adapted briskly and faithfully by Steve Kloves (who wrote all but the fifth Potter screenplay), the movie jumps right in where the last one ended - with Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) acquisition of the all - powerful Elder Wand.

The cinematography by Roger Deakins conveys grandeur without personality, the score by Alexandre Desplat cues all the right emotions, and the screenplay alternately written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson (based on Laura Hillenbrand's book) has been polished to a fine sheen.

At a running time of close to two hours, School for Scoundrels is clearly much longer than it has any right to be - although, that being said, there's little doubt that the film remains consistently watchable thanks to Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong's surprisingly clever screenplay and the uniformly effective performances.

The animation by which it stands or falls is as brilliant as ever and, though it wouldn't really be right to call it totally anti-Disney, it certainly trumps that institution for sharpness of focus, notably as far as the screenplay is concerned.

It is, quite frankly, rather astonishing just how uninvolving and underwhelming Confidence reveals itself to be, with the movie, right from its opening frames, assuming a palpably generic feel that's reflected in its eye - rollingly mannered dialogue and plethora of telegraphed plot twists (ie Doug Jung's lazy screenplay seems to have emerged directly from a template for movies of this ilk).

Director Will Gluck, who penned the screenplay along with Rob Lieber, quickly establishes the production's overtly slapstick tone right from the start, as a quartet of singing birds encircling the iconic Columbia Pictures «Torch Lady» end up as the dazed victims of a hit - and - run by an out - of - control Peter Rabbit (Corden).

The really cool part is that the prospective film would be a long - awaited realization of Dalton Trumbo's famously unproduced screenplay, Montezuma, the story of which is fascinating in its own right.

Jonathan Demme's film, from a screenplay by Diablo Cody is sometimes funny, but mostly fails to hit the right notes.

Even as the parenting dramedy «The Kids Are All Right» hauled in the nominations — for best picture, original screenplay, lead actress (Annette Bening) and supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo)-- director and co-writer Lisa Cholodenko expressed a degree of shock that «Kids» co-lead Julianne Moore had been overlooked.

Ricki and the Flash review: Jonathan Demme's film, from a screenplay by Diablo Cody is sometimes funny, but mostly fails to hit the right notes.

Picture — The Social Network Director — David Fincher Actor — Colin Firth Actress — Natalie Portman Supporting Actor — Christian Bale Supporting Actress — Amy Adams Adapted Screenplay — The Social Network Original Screenplay — The Kids Are All Right Animated Feature Film — Toy Story 3 Art Direction — Inception Cinematography — True Grit Costume Design — Alice in Wonderland Film Editing — The Social Network Original Score — The King's Speech Original Song — Tangled Sound Mixing — Black Swan Sound Editing — Inception Makeup — Alice in Wonderland Visual Effects — Inception

Dreamworks Animation has done right by the adaptation in hiring comedy filmmaker Nicholas Stoller to adapt the screenplay.

Right off the bat the front - runner should be Zero Dark Thirty, an original screenplay, for its impressive way to be honest and crude about a dark episode in American history.

Oscar nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (2), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Picture Where to see it right now: In theaters (watch the trailer)

Oscar nominations: Best Adapted Screenplay Where to see it right now: In theaters (watch the trailer)

Oscar nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design Where to see it right now: In theaters (watch the trailer)

Filmmaker Carl Tibbetts, working from a screenplay cowritten with Janice Hallett, has infused Retreat with an almost excessively deliberate pace that proves problematic right from the outset, with the movie's hands - off atmosphere exacerbated by Newton's cold, oddly unsympathetic performance (ie she seems to actively hate her own husband).

And also I told @kumailn that he and @emilyvgordon would get a best screenplay nomination and that if I was right, he had to eat a bowl of brussel sprouts.

There is occasionally a staginess to the screenplay but the characters are real and familiar, the performances are full on, and it is engaging right the way through.

Oscar nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture Where to see it right now: In theaters (watch the trailer)

Oscar nominations: Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture Where to see it right now: Stream on HBO GO / NOW; rent on iTunes, Amazon Video, YouTube, and VUDU (watch the trailer)

It's clear right from the get - go that director John Huston (who co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Viertel) isn't interested in presenting both sides of this story - said Chief of Police is almost ridiculously evil, completely devoid of any redeeming qualities - but that's not necessarily a bad thing, as the filmmaker does an effective job of establishing each of these rebels (to the point where we're genuinely rooting for them to accomplish their complicated mission).

«Warners is secretly working on getting the movie rights and a screenplay settled, and of course in their minds only one man should be Harry,» according to a well - placed Hollywood source.

King wrote both the novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the much better named screenplay, but it's all completely ruined by awful special effects and either ham - fisted or lackluster performances by the likes of Gary Busey and the late Corey Haim, the kind of actors who were great in the right roles.

As a matter of record, I updated my predictions at the Gold Derby website late Monday night to put Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill into the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor categories, respectively; to add Scorsese to my Best Director predictions; and to move Terence Winter's screenplay into the second spot, right behind «12 Years a Slave.»

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

Charlie Kaufman's screenplay hits the right notes in its adaptation of Chuck Barris's indescribably bizarre autobiography, understanding that the life of an anti-television television show maker is timed perfectly for the film medium that finds itself at a crossroads where, increasingly, the pictures are approaching their television counterparts in self - reflexivity.

Really it's just about getting a screenplay that is worthy of that character, and I think we're really close right now.»

A most enjoyable film: the music is just right, the screenplay is brilliantly understated, and the photography is stunning.

But surely, the movie was a lock for Screenplay, right?

Right, and also interestingly Eric Rohmer wrote all of his movies as short stories or novellas and then he turned those into screenplays, which is a fascinating way to do it.

I was expecting the intricately - designed, always - paying - off - and - paying - back screenplay, and the astonishingly good fight sequences, but I wasn't expecting a final product that was so profoundly sad, a raucous, but melancholy sci - fi action - comedy about addiction, friendship, aging, the way that You Can't Go Home Again, and humanity's inalienable right to be fucking awful.

The Kids All Right took screenplay - I really hope that this issue nudges the NYFCC towards separating their categories into adapted and original but (in my opinion) NO ONE wrote a better screenplay than Aaron Sorkin did this year.

But the movie flopped financially, despite dialogue that inspired Fatboy Slim's «Right Here, Right Now», a punchy virtual - reality premise, a genre take on the LA riots, euphoric electro music and one of James Cameron's leanest, most propulsive screenplays.

Now that Lady Bird swept the National Society of Film Critics, winning Picture, Director and Screenplay it has much going for it heading into the Oscars and right now feels poised to become the frontrunner.

That's right, Clive Barker himself will be writing the screenplay to the remake of his very own 1987 directorial debut.

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But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

Kechiche (who, along with Ghalia Lacroix, adapted the screenplay from a French graphic novel by Julie Maroh) may not get everything about lesbian sex right, but he understands something important about the way people fall in and out love.

12 Years a Slave (Fox, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD), coming hot off an Oscar win for Best Picture as well as Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong» o, whose acceptance speech was a work of art) and Best Adapted Screenplay (by John Ridley), timed this release right.

It's a throwback for Kurt Russell to his Disney Movie of the Week days in terms of screenplay, ethic, and production value, and if Kelly Preston seems right at home, well, that says a lot more about the plastic fantastic Preston than it does about Sky High.

Right behind that is usually screenplay and editing.

* «Another Year» Written by Mike Leigh * «The Fighter» Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson * «Inception» Written by Christopher Nolan * «The Kids Are All Right» Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg * «The King's Speech» Screenplay by David Seidler

A hip attitude seems to carry some comedies a long way, and if this is a hit then the three writers who fashioned this screenplay (Michael Bacall, Oren Uziel, and Rodney Rothman) from Bacall and Jonah Hill's story may have the right idea after all.

Right now in my personal predictions, I have Demolition scoring nominations in Best Picture, Best Actor (Gyllenhaal), Best Supporting Actress (Watts), and Best Original Screenplay (Sipe), with Gyllenhaal taking home his first statue in Actor.