Sentences with phrase «screenplay for which»

In a nutshell, the story follows Marty (Colin Farrell) who is struggling from writer's block on his new screenplay for which he only has a few vague ideas and a title so far which is, you guessed it, «Seven Psychopaths.»

Or, Dana, to take your example, Elle, the screenplay for which was originally written as a planned Americanization of French novelist Philippe Djian's Oh... (I haven't read it so I don't know if the movie's dopey climax originates there) and for which Verhoeven hoped to sign Nicole Kidman.

Not exact matches

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

Like how his legal brief includes a 3 page «screenplay» of a conversation between a coworker and his boss, which he wasn't present for and which he admits to taking «artistic license» with?

Then, Julia conjures the spirit of the William Peter Blatty, who died earlier this month, and discusses The Exorcist — that very Catholic work of horror, for which he authored both novel and screenplay.

And now the movie adaptation comes out tomorrow, for which she also wrote the screenplay.

The best ensemble performance award went to Straight Outta Compton, which also won for best original screenplay.

11 — 30 Frost / Nixon, a play by Peter Morgan, who also co-wrote the award - winning screenplay for The Last King of Scotland, reenacts the famous 1977 interview in which British talk - show host David Frost extracted an on - air apology from Richard Nixon regarding his role in the Watergate scandal.

Friday the 13th, which currently has Prisoners «scribe, Aaron Guzikowski, penning the screenplay, has been a bumpy road for Friday fans in regards to getting a firm release date and any details as to what the plot will entail.

Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).

The eye - rolling predictability of Nancy Sackett's screenplay exacerbates the movie's less - than - watchable atmosphere, as there's virtually nothing that occurs within Ron Howard's Skyward that one doesn't see coming from miles away (eg Julie's parents forbid her from flying, Julie fights with Scott, etc, etc)- which ultimately prevents the finale from packing the uplifting, emotional punch that Howard is obviously striving for.

Kurtzman & Orci & Pinkner will write the screenplay for The Amazing Spider - Man 3 (coming to theaters July 10, 2016), and Kurtzman, Orci, and Solomon will write the screenplay for Venom, which Kurtzman will direct.

Williams Bowers was a guest speaker in the class, and we had read his wonderfully funny screenplay for Support Your Local Sheriff (1969), which had just finished shooting.

The musical's original creative team was brought into the screenwriting process and asked to write entirely new lyrics to fill in the screenplay's original narrative which even called for a new song («Suddenly»).

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.

But it was back in sword - and - sandal territory that Franzoni fully realized his affection for historical - based adventure, collaborating with John Logan and William Nicholson on the screenplay for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, for which the trio earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Sscreenplay for Ridley Scott's Gladiator, for which the trio earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original ScreenplayScreenplay.

Attempting a slapstick satire of suburban paranoia and xenophobia, Dante lavishes his considerable skills on a one - note, repetitive Dana Olsen screenplay which, at best, contains enough invention for a 20 - minute skit.

But in «The Crossing Guard,» for which Mr. Penn wrote the screenplay, he and Mr. Nicholson seemed boxed in by a story that was basically a fancily embellished cat - and - mouse game with pretentious quasi-religious overtones.

Inactive in films from 1941 to 1952, Ernest Vajda returned with his screenplay for Fox's The Stars and Stripes Forever, which, though entertaining, was far removed from the worldly sophistication of his earlier films.

But not often, as Tony Kushner's («Angels in America») screenplay — loosely adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's «Team of Rivals» — eschews grandeur for quaintness, creating a film which like a play more often than not.

Married three times, Virginia Bruce's first husband was silent screen idol John Gilbert, with whom she costarred in Downstairs (1932), an obscure but lively melodrama for which Gilbert had written the screenplay.

Kushner first encountered the challenge of fact - based drama when he wrote the screenplay for Spielberg's 2005 film «Munich,» which recounted the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Olympics and their aftermath.

Five - time nominee «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» missed out on a picture nomination, along with the PGA - and SAG - nominated «Straight Outta Compton,» which did earn a nomination for original screenplay.

Written by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting.

Jeremy and John - Henry Butterworth were named recipients of the Writers Guild of America West's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the film Fair Game (2010), directed by Doug Liman and which starred Naomi Watts and Sean Penn..

John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky, and Johnny Knoxville wrote the screenplay for the film, which is about a daredevil who designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.

Speaking to Sky Movies, Pegg confirmed he had read Wright's screenplay for the comic - book movie, which is now moving ahead with Yes Man's Peyton Reed as director and a new screenplay by Anchorman's Adam McKay.

The group also handed out nominations for Best Animated Feature, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and the Vince Koehler Award, which is chosen as the year's best Science Fiction, Horror or Fantasy Film.

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

It was in 1992, however, when he wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and for which Neil won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that the wider public became aware of him as a once in a lifetime directing talent.

Top honors went to Spotlight, which won four EDA Awards: best film, best director, best original screenplay and tied for best ensemble.

The movie is one of two Lelio dramas heading to TIFF this year; the other is «A Fantastic Woman,» which earned acclaim at Berlin and won Lelio the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay.

With Antonio Tibaldi, he co-wrote the screenplay «The Oldest Man Alive,» which was selected for the «Emerging Narrative» section of IFP's 2012 Independent Film Week.

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.

Danny Boyle's Mumbai - set melodrama triumphed in all but one of the categories for which it was nominated, taking best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, as well as five others.

It's a whipsmart and arch screenplay and for viewers willing to play along, and it's a pleasure unraveling the wordplay the actors clearly enjoy delivering (and do so with ease, which we can only imagine was due to extensive rehearsals).

Beauvois's film (the French Oscar submission, which surprised many by failing to make the Academy's shortlist) took the top prize, but it was «The Ghost Writer» that netted the most wins, with four — including two for Polanski himself (Best Director and Adapted Screenplay), plus honors for editing and Alexandre Desplat's score.

Sometimes that seems accurate enough (going all the way back to the win for Citizen Kane, which lost Best Picture to How Green Was My Valley), but just as often, you'll find Screenplay picks that are just as boneheaded as any other Oscar win.

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay along with playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney who wrote the play upon which the film is based, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue.

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

Here are the five films nominated for Best Original Screenplay (apparently, «original» even if they're based on true events, which I'll never understand).

The screenplay is based on on a book by a couple of Boston Globe journalists which exposed Bulger's catalogue of racketeering, murder and extortion, and while movies and real life should never be mistaken for one another, Black Mass successfully depicts a seamy, sleazy, blue collar milieu where blood is thicker than water and crime is just what you do to get by.

The playwright - turned - filmmaker made his cinematic debut with «In Bruges,» which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

This news bodes well for «Three Billboards,» which also has a Best Actress contender in Francis McDormand and an Original Screenplay candidate in McDonagh.

There's «Get Out» from Jordan Peele (which feels like a dark horse for Original Screenplay on a good day, though I'm sure many will work hard for Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in acting categories) and «The Fate of the Furious» from F. Gary Gray («Straight Outta Compton»), but neither truly feel like they'll make a dent come awards season.

And while I am primarily concerned with who wins best picture or best screenplay, for some reason, I always paid attention to costume design (which is ironic, as anyone who knows me will tell you my fashion sense consists primarily of jeans, converse and out of date band t - shirts).

Judging by the film's latest trailer, this new movie has traces of the hip wit found in Neustadter and Weber's (500) Days of Summer screenplay, with poignance and philosophy similar to that found in the pair's script for their previous teen romance tale, The Spectacular Now (which also costarred Woodley).

The nominations for Brooklyn were: Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan, Best Supporting Actor for Domhnall Gleeson, Best Supporting Actress for Julie Walters, Best Screenplay for Nick Hornby, and Outstanding Achievement in Craft, for which Fiona Weir is nominated for casting.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this brilliant satirical comedy, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.