Sentences with phrase «screenwriter john»

Interview Advice From the Movies of John Hughes - «Bueller... Bueller...» Across the 1980's and 1990's screenwriter John Hughes had a hand in nearly every often - quoted movie.

It seemed as though THQ was doing everything right with Homefront — the marketing was there, there was plenty of hype and the story, written by Hollywood screenwriter John Milius, was unique from other shooters.

Local screenwriter John Orloff (A Mighty Heart) makes a persuasive case for the argument that the facts of Oxford's life fit the plays better than those of the obscure man from Stratford - on - Avon.

In 2011, Lionsgate released a Blu - Ray edition, which has all the extras of the old Miramax DVD, starting with a commentary track by director Danny Boyle, star Ewan McGregor, screenwriter John Hodge, and producer Andrew Macdonald.

The brisk action that follows and the lack of fuss over exposition gave me some assurance that director Christine Jeffs and screenwriter John Brownlow knew what they were up to.

Far from caricature, screenwriter John Logan gives us a personal look at the man, whose need for perfection both made him riches beyond imagine and drove him further and further down the road of madness.

12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley's exploration of the decade - long lead - up to the LA riots takes an unflinching look at the city's gang culture, drug use and the shocking police tactics that built to a disastrous and tragic crescendo.

Meanwhile, screenwriter John Francis Daley is best known for comedies like Horrible Bosses (2011) and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013).

For Let the Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist (who adapted his 2004 novel) employ most of the usual vampire «rules,» as well as some overly familiar plot arcs, but they present them in a unique, surprisingly beautiful manner.

A Life Less Ordinary marks the third straight collaboration between director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach), screenwriter John Hodge (The Final Curtain), and budding superstar Ewan McGregor (Down with Love, Big Fish), following on the heels of their critically acclaimed offbeat films, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

Oscar - winning screenwriter John Ridley has been writing an excellent politically charged superhero story in The American Way: Those Above and This Below.

The lion's share of the credit goes to screenwriter John Stockwell (Blue Crush), whose attention to detail and knowing insights make for a film that has fun with the subject matter without making a mockery of it.

Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs) and original screenwriter John Hodge are back for this one which is only loosely inspired by author Irvine Welsh's sequel, Porno.

But while his own name may be unfamiliar, many of the once - fledgling actors and filmmakers whom he nurtured / exploited are not: Martin Scorsese («Boxcar Bertha»), Ron Howard («Grand Theft Auto»), Peter Bogdanovich («Targets»), Jonathan Demme («Caged Heat»), Joe Dante («Piranha»), Robert DeNiro («Bloody Mama»), Pam Grier («The Big Doll House»), screenwriter John Sayles («The Lady in Red»)-- all these and many more appear in «Corman's World» in new and archival interviews.

Another burgeoning romance between Madame Emilie (Frances de la Tour) and Monsieur Frick (Richard Griffiths) is repeatedly stopped in its tracks by her dog, and the two ancillary love stories offer bits of whimsical farce and screenwriter John Logan (adapting Brian Selznick's novel) the chance to flesh out the sense of kinship among the station's denizens.

The Beach is by director Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge, and producer Andrew MacDonald, the same team behind A Life Less Ordinary and Trainspotting.

Burton and Sondheim [and screenwriter John Logan] have put together a great film by simplifying.

For the most part, though, De Niro plays it without suggesting that he's in on whatever joke screenwriter John Phillips believed he was making with this character.

Other directors include George B. Seitz (who directed most of the Andy Hardy films), Felix Feist (of «The Devil Thumbs a Ride» fame), Harold S. Bucquet (he went on to direct the «Dr. Kindare» series), Joseph H. Newman, and Roy Rowland, and future film noir screenwriter John C. Higgins apprenticed on half a dozen scripts.

Rather than going out during intermissions, Taylor and I were content to stand near our seats speaking with our neighboring seatmates including Samuel Jackson, Sony Pictures Classics studio co-president, Michael Barker (whom Cate Blanchett thanked when she won), director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley, who won for adapting the screenplay for «12 Years a Slave,» producer Megan Ellison who financed «Her», all of the people associated with the movie «Nebraska,» including producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (whom you once famously mistook for David Lynch), and on and on.

There are moments when the Shakespearean language falls silent and we're aware of other hands and other voices operating, but Fiennes and screenwriter John Logan show how little alteration is necessary to bring the concerns of the classic text into a contemporary space.

Producers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley to be honored at Hollywood Awards Gala.

Finally, «The Author's Journey» (8 minutes) profiles novelist Daniel Wallace and offers comments from screenwriter John August.

Scout Tafoya's series on overlooked or under appreciated films continues with screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's debut feature, a comedy starring Tom Hanks as a put - upon factory worker and Meg Ryan in three roles as three different muses.

Both films contain commentary tracks, with author Steve Haberman and screenwriter John Briley (yes, he of Gandhi fame) respectively discussing the production and artistic merits of each film.

Spielberg then hired screenwriter John Sayles to flesh out his story (now called Night Skies due to a trademark conflict) about a group of aliens that would terrorize a family.

Promising a moving tale of friendship and mentorship in the 1920s New York literary scene, it also comes from the pen of «Gladiator» and «Skyfall» screenwriter John Logan, so we're justified in hoping for something bolder than the average period biopic.

Writer / producer Mark Boal, Mary Jo Markey, screenwriter Damon Lindelof, editor William Goldenberg, screenwriter John August, cinematographer Anthony Richmond, editor Maryann Brandon and editor Dylan Tichenor attend «Turning The Page:... Más

That would be director Danny Boyle, plus screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald.

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

To the credit of McQueen and Oscar - winning screenwriter John Ridley, they are able to portray the epic journey of one man and offer an implied critique of slavery without falling into the pitfalls of preachiness, melodrama, or clichés.

Boyle (and returning screenwriter John Hodge) have kept the visual mania but also perhaps the original's grimy humanity.

Screenwriter John Logan covers the major events of Hughes» life until his decline in the 1940s, focusing on the blurred lines between his private, public, and professional life, but the script also examines how these episodes led Hughes down the path to complete isolation.

Crucially, Green and the Stronger screenwriter John Pollono emphasize Bauman's perspective, and are committed to closing the distance between his distressing situation and the audience.

In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

To confront the subject of slavery in the most brutal uncompromising manner, McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley have drawn from the memoir of Solomon Northup, a New York - born musician kidnapped in 1841 and enslaved for twelve years before being freed.

«Trance» reunites Boyle with screenwriter John Hodge, who has written four of his films, including «Shallow Grave» and «Trainspotting,» and it also marks a first for the filmmaker: the story centers on a female protagonist.

Director Gore Verbinski (fresh off the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies) and screenwriter John Logan (The Aviator) seem to be more interested in creating a twisted fever dream of a world than in telling an actual story.

Features two new commentary tracks: one by director Lewis Teague and actor Robert Forster, the other by producer Julie Corman and screenwriter John Sayles.

Prior to their Oscar wins in respective categories, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

The purpoted beef between director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley aside, most of the controversy surrounding the Best Picture - winning «12 Years A Slave» has centered on audience's reactions to the film, both of Armond White and uneasy white Academy voters.

It was stage four of the seven stages of grief (depression, reflection and loneliness), and newbie screenwriter John Scott 3 ** keeps the audience in this bleak pit throughout the entire film.

Titled «T2,» the film is a massive reunion that finds Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and stars Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle all back together again.

High Fidelity (1995), in which a London record - store owner is forced to grow up, may have been transferred to Wicker Park by actor - producer - screenwriter John Cusack, but its steady voice - over, taken nearly verbatim from the book, provided plenty of Hornby's reflections on love and pop fandom.

SUDEIKIS: In pre-production when we were going through the script in rehearsals with Sean (director Sean Anders) and John (screenwriter John Morris), we watched them in my trailer that day.

Patti Smith will collaborate will collaborate with Oscar - winning screenwriter John Logan to adapt her bestseeling memoir Just Kids.

One of the year's unlikeliest sequels, «T2 Trainspotting» reunites the cast of the 1996 indie hit «Trainspotting» with its director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge in a story that catches up with the restless Scottish heroin addicts of Irvine Welsh's original novel, 20 years later.

Now, I'm not suggesting this horrific piece of our history isn't challenging material, but director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley use the full measure of filmmaking's potential to gripping effect.

De Rochemont and director Henry Hathaway brought a realist aesthetic to the studio thriller and reunited with screenwriter John Monks, Jr., narrator Reed Hadley, and veteran cinematographer Norbert Brodine for 13 Rue Madeleine.

Director Steve McQueen, actors Lupita Nyong «o, Alfre Woodard and Ejiofor, screenwriter John Ridley, cinematographer Sean Bobbitt and composer Hans Zimmer received loud, appreciative ovations when they were introduced at a post-screening Q&A.