Sentences with phrase «screenplays for movies like»

All the scripts and directors are taken from real life, so players will be buying screenplays for movies like Casablanca, but perhaps getting Orson Welles to direct it, or Charlie Chaplin to both star and direct.

Edgar Wright is a great writer / director, having directed «Shaun of the Dead» and written screenplays for movies like «Ant - Man.»

Not exact matches

Its most controversial aspect was the early decision to eschew a screenplay and have the movie follow, Pasolini - like, the Good News Bible's rendition of the Gospel of John word for word.

But unlike so many other recent (or upcoming) Hollywood products, it was made from an original screenplay (Faber and Fisher previously wrote for TV sitcoms); it didn't come from a source that audiences are already familiar with, like an old television show or a previous movie.

Nobody goes to a movie like «Rampage» for the poetry, but truly this is a terrible screenplay, credited to four writers and tonally all over the place.

While never the most conventional screenwriter to begin with («Pulp Fiction» is a sprawling, ambitious jigsaw puzzle, for one), in recent years Tarantino's screenplays have pushed the envelope further, eschewing most cinematic narrative conventions, with his movies becoming more like filmed novels that don't bother with traditional structure.

According to an article on Variety, there's not one but two writers who are currently in negotiations to write the screenplay for the Pikachu movie and if all goes well, it sounds like the two could be working together.

Fredrik Bond has been making «short» movies for the past decade as an award - winning commercials director (view some here) and luck would have it that he gets to work from a top tier 2007 Blacklist Screenplay and a solid ensemble with the likes of Shia LaBeouf (who reportedly dropped acid for some scenes), Aubrey Plaza, Rupert Grint, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger and Melissa Leo.

In honor of the movie's home video release (and before this weekend's Academy Awards, where it's nominated for Best Animated Feature), I spoke with Molina about the power of the film's music, how physically visiting a place like Monte Alban actually translates into a movie's screenplay, and much more.

«We went back to the original screenplay too and just read it, John Carpenter's draft, and timed it with watching the movie, and line for line it keeps the same clock as watching the movie, so if you're reading the pages, it's almost like a shot list.»

You can't spread all the wealth, which leads to movies like Lady Bird and The Florida Project getting shut out and Phantom Thread only receiving a win for Costume Design (and a Jet Ski), but it would be just as easy to imagine The Shape of Water winning for screenplay (and editing and sound) in the olden days, denying Jordan Peele the opportunity to get his.

The last time I talked to Alex, they had a massive chunk of screenplay that they really liked, for the first movie.

Schrader — who is best known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese, but has also written and directed movies like American Gigolo, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters, and Affliction — has never made anything as minimalist and contemplative as First Reformed, a film of empty spaces framed in boxy Academy ratio.

In addition to his role as director, Wright — known for bitingly funny films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, as well as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — cowrote the movie's script with Joe Cornish, who worked on the screenplay for The Adventures of Tintin and wrote and directed Attack the Block.

Like «Django Unchained» (his 2012 western for which he won an Original Screenplay Oscar), «The Hateful Eight» is about two hours and 45 minutes long, though this time Tarantino adds an intermission — as part of his homage to movies of yesteryear — and just because he can.

It continues the director's career - long grappling with his Calvinist beliefs, even as it becomes the latest iteration of a story he has told before, in movies like «American Gigolo» and «Hardcore» and his screenplay for «Taxi Driver.»

Filmmaker Ned Benson's decision to employ as deliberate a pace as one could possibly envision proves an effective match for his introspective screenplay, with the laser - like focus on the characters ensuring that Eleanor (and, to a lesser degree, Conor) becomes an intensely sympathetic figure over the course of the movie's 190 minutes.

Worst offenders are Stallone's screenplay (which, aside from its tin ear and stunning stretches, unerringly goes on for one line too long in every exchange) and Stallone's decision to have his brother Frank not only provide a handful of remarkably bad songs for the picture but also appear in the movie in the most unintentionally hilarious moment, thrusting his guitar like a stringed phallus in an already unintentionally hilarious film.

The plot of McCarthy, Falcone, and Steve Mallory's screenplay involves Michelle planning her comeback by organizing a rival scout troop for girls to sell Claire's brownies (One of the movie's few chuckles involves her design of the logo and uniforms, which look like designs from a Soviet youth group).

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

- the scene at the beginning of a ceremony caused Shimamura a bit of trouble - the lines of the ritual did not properly reflect Zelda's personality, her motivations, her powerlessness, and awkwardness - Shimamura talked about it with Naoki Mori (who was in charge of Cinematic Design, including screenplay, and cutscenes)- the whole thing was rewritten several times, until they arrived at the final result - there's quite a lot of scenes she really likes in the game - her favorite line is the «Yes» Princess Zelda gives as an answer to the Deku Tree in a particular scene - in that scene, Zelda thinks about what she should do, but she can not see it at all - she refuses to give up, and wants to give hope to Link - Shimamura tried to convey all of those feelings through the single «Yes» she spoke - recording felt completely different than for animation, the dubbing of (foreign) movies, or other games - there was no fixed routine of how to approach it, as all different things were being tried out - lines were redone even after other lines were implemented in the game, as the team found better ways to say things - Shimamura finally managed to beat the game the other day, but she wants to keep practicing her shield surfing - Shimamura explains that she really gave it her whole when voicing Princess Zelda, to give her emotions - she hopes that players will remember their memories of Princess Zelda

- Miyamoto has been considering an animated movie for many years - he says creating games and movies aren't really that similar - interactive and passive media are very different, so if he wanted to make a movie, he'd like to have a movie expert work on it - while meeting with many movie directors and producers, he was introduced to Illumination by Universal Parks & Resorts - Meledandri revealed that he had read Miyamoto's interviews and said that the ways they create are similar - the two ended up having a mutual understanding, and eventually said that they should do something together - Meledandri is focused on making the film with a reasonable cost and deadline in order for it to be a success - Miyamoto has felt that if they couldn't make something interesting, then it would be better to quit - they've already had multiple meetings for the screenplay so the project has actually progressed very far

M. Night Shyamalan, directory of suspenseful adult films like The Sixth Sense and The Village, co-wrote the screenplay for the children's movie Stuart Little.