Sentences with phrase «screenplay after»

So perhaps that means I don't have to write that screenplay after all.

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, del Toro first gained worldwide recognition for the 1993 Mexican - American co-production CRONOS, a supernatural horror film, which he directed from his own screenplay after beginning his career working as a special effects makeup artist.Read More

This is Dennis Lehane's first screenplay after writing the novels that were adapted into Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, and Shutter Island.

McDonagh was inspired to write his unique screenplay after years ago seeing billboards about an unsolved crime while traveling in the southern United States.

They began the «beat sheet» for the film's screenplay after going through the book together.

Not exact matches

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

In defending his interpretation the screenplay writer erroneously argued that the Gospel writers, after all, were writing «200 years» after the event, and then proceeded to confuse the virginal conception with the «immaculate conception».

After his huge hit, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton found he was the hottest director in Hollywood and was sent all the biggest screenplays, yet none of them caught his appeal.

This movie has the same form of pacing and dialogue that that film has and upon research after watching The Post, I realized that the same writer in Josh Singer had worked on both of these screenplays, which made complete sense.

Benefiting from the unfortunate coincidence of the Three Mile Island accident shortly after its release, The China Syndrome became one of the year's biggest successes, and garnered Bridges his second Oscar nomination for screenplay.

Laden with lazy writing that drags out clichéd phrase after clichéd phrase — seriously, the line «you don't write, you don't call...» should be permanently retired from screenplays, especially if it's delivered between characters who hate each other — the story kind of plods along, checking off plots points from a list.

After writing for The Wire and Boardwalk Empire and having three of his novels made into a trio of well - reviewed movies (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane has finally written his first screenplay.

After this lengthy introduction in Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's screenplay (based on a book by the real Sestero and Tom Bissell), the film turns to a lengthy recreation of the in - front - of - the - camera and behind - the - scenes mishaps of the making of The Room.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

After the film ended and we realized how pointless it was, one of the «writers» went onstage and was interviewed about the experience of writing the screenplay.

The screenplay by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Reynolds simultaneously want us to take this development seriously — giving us multiple scenes of Wade trying to reunite with Vanessa in the afterlife — and to laugh at it — giving us a James Bond - like credit sequence that calls the screenwriters «the real villains,» after offering a series of tongue - in - cheek statements of disbelief about what has transpired.

It's not that Garland isn't allowed to write films divorced of his usual themes — he did pen the screenplay for 2012's mindlessly enjoyable Dredd reboot, after all.

Three months after the film made its debut, Clarke published a novel based upon the film's screenplay.

Denial spends its first 20 minutes labouring under a rather clunky, wordy screenplay... But it completely changes gear after her legal team decides to visit Auschwitz and suddenly you realise what's at stake.

After winning the Grand Prix for The Wonders at the 2014 festival, writer - director Alice Rohrwacher returned to Cannes this year and tied for the festival's best screenplay honors with a «fully formed expression of her virtuosic talents,» according to Rory O'Connor of The Film Stage.

The screenplay, credited to Eric Pearson, Craig Kyler and Christopher L. Yost, really finds its footing after Thor is expelled from Asgard, his home planet, to a distant world, where he is quickly captured by indie warrior Scrapper (Tessa Thompson) and sold to Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

His screenplay for the 1959 film version of Tennessee Williams» Suddenly Last Summer was the most overt example of out - of - the - closet cinema of the fifties, while his contributions to the screenplay of Ben Hur (1959) were intended to suggest that Judah Ben Hur and Messala enjoyed more than just a warm friendship (Ben Hur star Charlton Heston bristles to this day over Vidal's claiming responsibility for the tone and texture of the screenplay; Heston insists that director William Wyler rejected Vidal's script suggestions after a single cold reading).

It's an audience - approved template that Wiig (who co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo) has little problem personalizing, sincerely and ridiculously confronting issues of beauty, wealth, loyalty, monogamy, marriage, and sex through the tale of a character whose life spirals downward after her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), gets engaged and she's forced to battle for sole possession of BFF status with Lillian's glamorous and wealthy new sidekick, Helen (Rose Byrne).

Director Terry Gilliam was interested in the early 90's and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman had actually drafted a screenplay that was eventually unused once he became more sought after following the success of Being John Malkovich.

CANNES, France — Tommy Lee Jones walked away from the 58th Cannes Film Festival here Saturday night as a double winner, after his film «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada» won him the award as best actor, and the screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga also was honored.

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.

With it previously having looked as if they'd completed their work on the Bond series after five movies, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are apparently back on board to take a pass at John Logan's screenplay.

In a screenplay said to be similar to Godzilla, «The story follows a woman who moves back to her hometown after losing her job and boyfriend in New York, only to discover that she is somehow strangely connected to a giant creature that has materialized over Seoul and is wreaking havoc on the city.»

The story, should you choose to believe it, is that Reitman threw together a script of his own after being taken by Walter Kirn's novel, unaware the whole project was already in development with a screenplay having been written up by Turner.

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.

Assayas wrote the screenplay for Personal Shopper very quickly after making Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), in which Stewart starred opposite Juliette Binoche.

It's appropriate that Ivory wore the shirt because, after all, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film.

An original draft of a screenplay was written back in 2005 shortly after the game's release, and Brett Ratner expressed interest in 2008.

After writing a number of screenplays, which were turned into objectively mediocre movies, Clive Barker successfully campaigned to make his directorial debut with 1987's Hellraiser.

Director Peter Berg, who wrote the screenplay with Matt Cook and Joshua Zeturner, has meticulously recreated everything from the morning of the attack to the moments after the investigation wrapped.

It centers on Chris (Jay Duplass, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shelton), who's just spent 20 years in prison after being convicted of a crime that wasn't really his fault (wrong place, wrong time).

Year after year her awards are fraught with controversy that includes incomplete nominations lists (check out the TWO nominations in Adapted Screenplay this year), names that are later removed (which happened to Viola Davis for 2008's Doubt), actors being listed as TV shows (I'm looking at your, Lizzy Caplan) but the biggest and most real controversy has been the group's penchant for nominating films they haven't even seen.

Aside from Allen in an Original Screenplay, Director, and Picture race, the early word is that we need to begin to pencil in Academy Award winner Kate Winslet for one of the highly sought - after Best Actress spots.

After over 50 individuals voted in IndieWire's annual Sundance Critics Poll, these are their picks for the top screenplays of the festival.

After reviewing the winners of the 81st Academy Awards (Oscars), I must say I was overwhelmingly relieved that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt did not win in the category of Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

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.

It was inevitable that after building his name on these very low - key, intimate character dramas, Ponsoldt would eventually want to attempt an elevation into new territory, and that's where he found himself with the prescient tech thriller The Circle, based on Dave Eggers» acclaimed novel, for which Eggers and Ponsoldt collaborated on the screenplay.

Directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry and Allison Schroeder, the film follows the now - adult Christopher Robin, who has lost his way, and now must rely on his childhood friends of lovable stuffed animals to reconnect him of the loving and playful boy who is still inside, after embarking on countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.

He becomes obsessed with Madame Butterfly after finishing reading the screenplay and vows to find a bride just as loquacious.

After all, the revisionist musical took home all seven Golden Globe awards, including screenplay.

Spielberg clearly felt this was an important film to prioritize as he put off all of his other projects after reading the screenplay saying, «this was a story I felt we needed to tell today.»

In her latest star vehicle, McCarthy (who co-wrote the screenplay alongside director Ben Falcone) plays a high - flying CEO aka The Wealthiest Woman in America ™, who attempts to reinvent herself after being sent down for insider trading.

He wrote the script after graduating from college and it made The Black List (a list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year) back in 2013, but years went by before he found funding for the film.

Screenplay: Jack Davies, after his novel North Sea Hijack.

Screenplay: Thomas Baum, after a story by Phoebe Kaylor, Robert Kaylor and Robbie Robertson.