Sentences with phrase «screenplay with»

In 2002 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I used his previous formatting guide to publish a children's screenplay with little expectation of financial gain.

One of the buzziest movies out of Sundance Film Festival, Mudbound directed by up - and - comer Dee Rees, who also adapted the screenplay with Virgil Williams.

Meanwhile, John Hodge (Trainspotting) is writing a screenplay with Boyle, who is currently the closest to a candidate for helming Bond 25.

It's an inspired team effort where all elements gel: a game cast, a sharp director and a substantive screenplay with a feminist kick and surprises aplenty.

The terrific cast make up for the shortcomings in the screenplay with the best of the bunch being Robert Sheehan, Magda Szubanski and Kate Box.

Gregg Toland (The Grapes of Wrath) provided the astonishing and still - revolutionary deep - focus photography; Bernard Herrmann (Psycho) composed the score; Robert Wise (West Side Story) edited; and Herman J. Mankiewicz (Dinner at Eight) co-wrote the screenplay with Welles.

Minus the talents of Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote both of those excellent genre piss - takes, Pegg (who co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Frost) and director Greg Mottola (Superbad) struggle to make a cohesive film.

In addition to directing, Debra Granik co-wrote the screenplay with «Winter's Bone» collaborator Anne Rosellini.

Krasinski directed and stars in A Quiet Place, and also co-wrote the screenplay with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck.

In - between Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Aaron Covington, keeps proposing brilliantly simple themes, such as Rocky and Donny approaching a full - length mirror; Rocky tells Donny to face his fiercest opponent, to shadow box with him.

Eight months after winning the Oscar for adapted screenplay with director Barry Jenkins for «Moonlight,» Tarell Alvin McCraney might be expected to be leading a different life.

The environmental one is clear, and it's voiced by Dustin Noble (John Krasinski, who co-wrote the screenplay with Damon), an environmental activist from a small organization that has photos of what fracking did to his family's farm (dead cows in a field) and a science demonstration for the local school of what could — or, as he believes, will — happen if fracking becomes the norm in their town.

But there's no real reason for Wheatley, who wrote the barbed screenplay with his frequent collaborator (and spouse) Amy Jump, to have gone to the trouble of setting this thing 45 years in the past.

I have to assume this based on the fact that he wrote this cliched, tone deaf, horribly mawkish screenplay with boring plotting and terrible dialogue.

Dutch filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit is directing and co-wrote the screenplay with French director Pascale Ferran, best known for Lady Chatterley and Bird People.

Both screenplays are competing in Original Screenplay with the Writers Guild of America and Moonlight has already won a...

Along with directing Wish I Was Here, Braff also co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Adam and stars in the film as Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor caught in a financial and existential crisis: With his relationship with his wife Sarah (Kate Hudson) already on the rocks, Bloom ends up home - schooling his kids when his sick father, Saul (Mandy Patinkin), can no longer pay for their private school.

Flynn launches herself in the Oscar race for Best Adapted Screenplay with a very good chance of standing on stage this year.

Howard Koch, fresh off scripting the Orson Welles» radio sensation War of the Worlds, was a new face in Hollywood, and tackled the already penned Sea Hawk screenplay with the concise sensibilities and taught dialogue he would later bring to such classics as Letter From An Unknown Woman, Sergeant York, and of course, Curtiz directed Casablanca.

Martinez notes that Refn wrote a full screenplay with dialogue and action, but instead chose to mute a majority of it making the score and sound effects drive the scenes.

The result of which is a highly stylized picture with more swooping camera effects than you can shake a stick at, well - filmed action sequences, and some of the worst dialogue ever written in a screenplay with perhaps the dumbest excuse for an action movie plot.

The National Board of Review has announced its list of winners for the 2008 awards season and Fox Searchlight's «Slumdog Millionaire» is the big champ, taking down three awards including Best Film and a tie for Best Adapted Screenplay with Eric Roth's «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.»

Having not read the hugely popular trilogy by author Suzanne Collins (who co-wrote the screenplay with Gary Ross and Billy Ray), I can't compare film to source.

Krasinski co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and it has minimal dialogue, because silence is survival.

An original tale like Only, Neon Demon, which credits Refn alone with story and has him share responsibility for the screenplay with novice duo Mary Laws and Polly Shenham, initially seems to find the director stretching his creative muscles.

It is, after all, based on the 2011 French thriller Sleepless Night (by director Frédéric Jardin, who co-wrote that screenplay with Nicolas Saada), which presented a corker of a cat - and - mouse game within a nightclub.

Just let these facts sink in for a second: Pixar's team, co-directors Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen, who co-wrote the screenplay with Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, created a movie about a female character that is literally all about her emotions — and it is an unabashed box - office hit.

Since it's an Oliver Stone movie (he co-wrote the screenplay with Kiernan Fitzgerald), we fully expect his political views to be on full display.

Maggie is played by the 29 - year - old Brit Marling, who co-wrote the screenplay with first - time director Zal Batmanglij, and who also starred in and co-wrote last summer's auspicious Another Earth, in which she played a tragedy - stricken young woman seeking to restart her life on a newly discovered avatar of our planet.

Now, 16 years after the murder, Hollandsworth co-wrote a screenplay with director Richard Linklater and they present a visual representation that allows us to wrap our heads around the events.

Though she wrote the screenplay with Ms. Hale, whose 2007 novel inspired a 2012 sequel, the results are comparable to the Hesses» original films and not their endearing, overexposed debut.

Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with the legendary Arthur C. Clarke, first visits our prehistoric ape - ancestry past, then leaps millennia, via one of the most mind - blowing jump cuts ever, into colonized space.

Executing these daunting reams of screenplay with rhythmic dexterity is Davies's terrific ensemble, which is led by a gaunt Cynthia Nixon as Emily.

Last Flag Flying is based on a novel by Darryl Ponicsan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator directed The Avengers and the screenplay with the help of Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand).

Delays prompted casting changes, and the loss of director William Wyler, who had already spent considerable time developing a screenplay with one of the studio's most respected scribes, Philip Dunne.

The starkness of that division is evidence of a screenplay with six credited authors, expectations of a franchise that went astray when it abandoned Bryan Singer (as all potentially great franchises seem to abandon Bryan Singer, to their detriment), and a director who's capable of giving good genre (Kick - Ass) saddled with material that's at least fifty - percent garbage.

When you look at it as a whole you have a fairly decent screenplay with nice dialogue, great sets, a glossy, well - polished look; plenty of gifted actors (Chris Cooper and Elle Fanning, above, particular stand - outs) doing their thing making the most of the material, and enough going on to hold you attention throughout — but by the time you reach the end, one can't help but feel a little empty.

It is directed by Wes Anderson, who also co-authored the screenplay with Roman Coppola.

The center section of the film plays the comedy of the scenario for just about all that it's worth, and the playful tone of Tony's plan coming to fruition is a pleasant interlude between the tonally disparate sections on either side (As a reminder of the threat on the other side of the world, Affleck intercuts the read - through of the screenplay with a mock execution in the embassy basement).

Madge also wrote the screenplay with her «Truth or Dare» collaborator Alex Keshishian.

Katz adapted the movie from Dave Zeltserman's 2008 novel of the same title, collaborating on the screenplay with Macon Blair (the star of Blue Ruin and director of I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore).

Beauvois, who co-wrote the screenplay with Frédérique Moreau and Marie - Julie Maille based on a 1924 novel by Ernest Pérochon, presents the dailiness of farm life through its seasons with an unhurried grace.

Annie surpasses the clichés from which her character is assembled — a master of self - sabotage, a single woman looking for Mr. Right, a ball of social ineptitude — and, thanks in large part to Wiig (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo, who makes a brief appearance as a shaky harbinger of doom on an airplane), achieves a level of aching humanity, which helps make the results of her good intentions gone horribly awry even more comical.

First - time feature helmer Penna wrote the screenplay with Ryan Morrison.

Tornatore wrote the screenplay with Pascale Quignard, and did the snappy editing.

Mangold, whose credits also include Cop Land, Girl, Interrupted, 3:10 to Yuma and The Wolverine, wrotee the Logan screenplay with Scott Frank and Michael Green.

As with his past two efforts, Wain's latest is top - lined by the invaluable Paul Rudd, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Wain.

It's based on the novel Beer and Blood that was written by two druggists from Chicago, Kubec Glasmon and John Bright; the druggists also handled the screenplay with additional help from Harvey Thew.